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Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankless sea


J.R.R. Tolkien

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PAUL DI FILIPPO Love is a growing, or full constant light,
And his first minute, after noon, is night.
JOHN DONNE It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow.
RAY BRADBURY Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
BIBLE I am the immense shadow of my tears
FEDERICO GARCíA LORCA And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep;...
BIBLE And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.
BIBLE The sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.
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ALEKSANDAR HEMON Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the foundations of Kirhareseth shall y...
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ISAK DINESEN A most unspotted lily shall she pass To the ground, and all the world shall mourn her. -King Henry ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I really was never any more than what I was -a folk musician who gazed into the gray mist with tear-...
BOB DYLAN The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they t...
BIBLE The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they th...
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THOMAS WOLFE Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain onl...
THOMAS WOLFE When the sea reaches the sky, then we shall all become one.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Things have their way of staying with you forever, haunting your sleep and giving you false hope.
DIYAR HARRAZ All their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato; alas good folk, t...
JANE GREY And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of th...
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EMILY DICKINSON If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one life the Aching Or ...
EMILY DICKINSON There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.
KAHLIL GIBRAN The cure for anything is saltwater--sweat, tears, or the sea.
UNKNOWN And so castles made of sand fall in the sea, eventually.
JIMI HENDRIX If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
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KHALIL GIBRAN Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the fo...
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ISAK DINESEN The cure for anything is salt water -- sweat, tears, or the sea.
ISAK DINESEN The cure for anything is salt water... tears, sweat or the sea.
, SEVEN GOTHIC TALES, 1934 The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.
ISAK DINESEN They that sow in tears shall reap joy. Psalms 126:5
BIBLE They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5].
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CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON My tears have let me drown into a sea of regret and pain.
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TAMARA AW I'ts by losing tears, that we gain new strengths.
BRADLEY B. DALINA If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching...
EMILY DICKINSON Let the wind blow, lad
Let fall the deep snow,
Let the stars fall, lad
we'll answer ...
JENNIFER A. NIELSEN We are certainly descendents of the sea for our tears are salted and when we shed them on the jowl o...
SORIN CERIN My heart stole back across wide wastes of years To One who wandered by a lonely sea, And sought in v...
OSCAR WILDE The cure for anything is salt water — sweat, tears, or the salt sea.
KAREN BLIXEN The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever.
E. LOCKHART The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever.
E.LOCKHART The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Unde...
BIBLE Turn your tears into joy, stay focused, be steadfast in the storms for don't last forever.
STAN THE MAN SA Buy laughter with tears, and you'll be rich forever.
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CHRISTINA ENGELA The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a...
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU The Sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAU Sunny held Kit, and Violet held Klaus, and for a minute the four castaways did nothing but weep, let...
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KAREN BLIXEN Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shado...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life th...
EMILY DICKINSON Your fame shall (spite of proverbs) make it plain To write in water's not to write in vain.
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If I can ease on Life the Achin...
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J.R.R. TOLKIEN The way is shut.
Then they halted and looked at him and saw that he lived still; but he did not...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I don’t know,’ said Frodo. ‘It came to me then, as if I was making it up; but I may have heard...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN He drew a deep breath. 'Well, I'm back,' he said.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Fear nothing! Have peace until the morning! Heed no nightly noises!
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Over the field rang his clear voice calling: ‘Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world’s ending!
J.R.R. TOLKIEN his old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Why, Sam,” he said, “to hear you somehow makes me as merry as if the
story was already writ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Cold be hand and heart and bone,
and cold be sleep under stone:
never more to wake on ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Yet at the last Beren was slain by the Wolf that came from the gates of Angband, and he died in the ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew:
Of wind I sang, a wind ther...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN It was Sam's first view of a battle of Men against Men, and he did not like it much. He was glad tha...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The Dark Lord has Nine. But we have One, mightier than they: the White Rider. He has passed through ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or conte...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The consolation of fairy-stories, the joy of the happy ending: or more correctly of the good catastr...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN If I am to understand that you are enquiring whether I am of Jewish origin, I can only reply that I ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a smal...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN And Iluvatar spoke to Ulmo, and said: 'Seest thou not how here in this little realm in the Deeps of ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN A divine 'punishment’ is also a divine 'gift’, if accepted, since its object is ultimate blessin...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Somehow the killing of the giant spider, all alone by himself in the dark without the help of the wi...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Already he was a very different hobbit from the one that had run out without a pocket-handkerchief f...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of the reality, O Smaug the Chiefest and greatest of Calami...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Roads go ever ever on,
Over rock and under tree,
By caves where never sun has shone,
...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Why O why did I ever leave my hobbit-hole?" said poor Mr. Baggins, bumping up and down on Bombur's b...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for une...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I heard of that bloodthirsty old murderer Josef Stalin inviting all nations to join a happy family o...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The greater part of the truth is always hidden, in regions out of the reach of cynicism.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more--remembering my own sins and follies; and ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Et Eärello Endorenna utúlien. Sinome maruvan ar Hildinyar tenn’ Ambar-metta!
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Fare well we call to hearth and hall
Though wind may blow and rain may fall
We must away e...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN till suddenly his hand met what felt like a tiny ring of cold metal lying on the floor of the tunnel...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN You do not understand' said Pippin. 'You must go - and therefore we must too. Merry and I are coming...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!'
Pity? It was Pit...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN You renounce your friendship even in the hour of our need ' he said. 'Yet you were glad indeed to re...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to
J.R.R. TOLKIEN We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also re...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The others cast themselves down upon the fragrant grass, but Frodo stood awhile still lost in wonder...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN This is the ending. Now not day only shall be beloved, but night too shall be beautiful and blessed ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN How shall a man judge what to do in such times?'
'As he ever has judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good a...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Do not go to the elves for council for they will say both yes and no.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathom...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least cor...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN ...in doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN