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“PIPPIN: I didn't think it would end this way.

GANDALF: End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it.

PIPPIN: What? Gandalf? See what?

GANDALF: White shores, and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise.

PIPPIN: Well, that isn't so bad.

GANDALF: No. No, it isn't.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Das tut gar nichts... ich möchte gar nicht so reisen: Pferde und Kaffee und frischüberzogene Betten und Nachtmützen und Stiefelknecht vorausbestellt. Das ist just das Schönste, wenn wir frühmorgens heraustreten, und die Zugvögel hoch über uns fortziehn, dass wir gar nicht wissen, welcher Schornstein heut für uns raucht, und gar nicht voraussehen, was uns bis zum Abend noch für ein besonderes Glück begegnen kann.”
― Joseph von Eichendorff, Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring