Sam

“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens,'said Gimli.
'Maybe,'said Elrond,'but let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“A man’s fate is a man’s fate and life is but an illusion.”
― James Clavell, Shōgun, Volume 1