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    Mark Twain
    “Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: grief, judgement, pain
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: gandalf, grief
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.
    "After all this time?"
    "Always," said Snape.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: dumbledore, life, love, snape
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “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
    tags: adventuring, death, time
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “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
    tags: hope, inspirational, love
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
    tags: lotr, war
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I sit beside the fire and think
    Of all that I have seen
    Of meadow flowers and butterflies
    In summers that have been

    Of yellow leaves and gossamer
    In autumns that there were
    With morning mist and silver sun
    And wind upon my hair

    I sit beside the fire and think
    Of how the world will be
    When winter comes without a spring
    That I shall ever see

    For still there are so many things
    That I have never seen
    In every wood in every spring
    There is a different green

    I sit beside the fire and think
    Of people long ago
    And people that will see a world
    That I shall never know

    But all the while I sit and think
    Of times there were before
    I listen for returning feet
    And voices at the door”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: life, time
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: capital-punishment, death-penalty, gandalf, j-r-r-tolkien, lord-of-the-rings
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: pain
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre, Le diable et le bon dieu
    tags: class-struggle, war
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    Steven Erikson
    “Children are dying."
    Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words.”
    ― Steven Erikson, Deadhouse Gates
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: fairy-tales, hope, paraphrased, possiblity
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    Steven Erikson
    “[T]he unnamed soldier is a gift. The named soldier--dead, melted wax--demands a response among the living...a response no-one can make. Names are no comfort, they're a call to answer the unanswerable. Why did she die, not him? Why do the survivors remain anonymous--as if cursed--while the dead are revered? Why do we cling to what we lose while we ignore what we still hold?

    Name none of the fallen, for they stood in our place, and stand there still in each moment of our lives. Let my death hold no glory, and let me die forgotten and unknown. Let it not be said that I was one among the dead to accuse the living.”
    ― Steven Erikson, Deadhouse Gates
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment
    tags: humor, insanity, religion, war
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    Terry Pratchett
    “You can't give her that!' she screamed. 'It's not safe!'
    IT'S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY'RE NOT MEANT TO BE SAFE.
    'She's a child!' shouted Crumley.
    IT'S EDUCATIONAL.
    'What if she cuts herself?'
    THAT WILL BE AN IMPORTANT LESSON.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
    tags: children, death, discworld, hogfather, humor, humour, important-lessons, lessons, swords
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    Bob Dylan
    “Let me ask you one question
    Is your money that good
    Will it buy you forgiveness
    Do you think that it could
    I think you will find
    When your death takes its toll
    All the money you made
    Will never buy back your soul”
    ― Bob Dylan, The Bob Dylan Scrapbook: 1956-1966
    tags: masters-of-war, money, war
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    Sara Teasdale
    “There Will Come Soft Rains

    There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
    And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;

    And frogs in the pool singing at night,
    And wild plum-trees in tremulous white;

    Robins will wear their feathery fire
    Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;

    And not one will know of the war, not one
    Will care at last when it is done.

    Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree
    If mankind perished utterly;

    And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
    Would scarcely know that we were gone.”
    ― Sara Teasdale, Flame and Shadow
    tags: nature, poetry, war
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Was there ever a war where only one side bled?”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
    tags: death, war
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    Joe Abercrombie
    “Those with the least always lose the most in war.”
    ― Joe Abercrombie, Before They Are Hanged
    tags: war
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    Terry Pratchett
    “It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country," he read. "This means that both you and he have exactly the same aim in mind.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Jingo
    tags: war
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    Steven Erikson
    “The lesson of history is that no one learns.”
    ― Steven Erikson, Deadhouse Gates
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  • #23
    “Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”
    ― Steven Spielberg
    tags: education, reading
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: death, end, journey, life, path
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  • #25
    George R.R. Martin
    “Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: death, life
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    Markus Zusak
    “... And the boy whose hair remained the color of lemons forever.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: boy, color, death, forever, hair, lemon, memory
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    Markus Zusak
    “A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They are running at me.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: death, war
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  • #28
    Will Rogers
    “If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”
    ― Will Rogers
    tags: afterlife, death, dogs, heaven
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  • #29
    E.A. Bucchianeri
    “So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.”
    ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
    tags: grief, grief-inspirational, heartbreak, life, life-lessons, love, love-hurts, love-story, price-of-love, prices, romance, sad, sad-but-true, sadness, true-love
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  • #30
    Markus Zusak
    “It kills me sometimes, how people die.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: death
    5661 likes



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