“That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world's sounds.”
“Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.”
“Every heart has its own melody.”
“The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.”
“Every heart has its own melody," he said. "You know mine.”
“And amid all the splendours of the World, its vast halls and spaces, and its wheeling fires, Ilúvatar chose a place for their habitation in the Deeps of Time and in the midst of the innumerable stars.”