“It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those men get lost.”
“The age of great men, when a single mind of intelligence and vision might change the destiny of the world, was long gone.”
“It is hard to be sure of anything among so many marvels. The world is all grown strange...How shall a man judge what to do in such times?' 'As he ever has judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good and ill have not changed since yesteryear; nor are they one thing among Elves and Dwarves and another among Men. It is a man's part to discern them, as much in the Golden Wood as in his own house.”
“In this world everything changes except good deeds and bad deeds; these follow you as the shadow follows the body.”
“It is in the darkness of their eyes that men get lost”
“The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.”