J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

I felt myself on the edge of the world; peering over the rim into a fathomless chaos of eternal night.

Everything depends on this: a fathomless sinking into a fathomless nothingness.

O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark, The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant

Perhaps this is one of the last remaining strands of my Catholic upbringing, but to me the word 'worship' means absolute unquestioning affirmation of the authority of the deity. I'll not have that in my life. If you are wise, neither will you.

And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring.

Slaves, obey your masters with fear and trembling, in singleness of heart, as you obey Christ.

Neither God nor the Devil would take me in, so here I am.

The power of the master must be absolute to render the submission of the slave perfect.

I started with nothing. Less than nothing.

I trust you, Jared," she whispered. "I always did. I love you, Master.

I’m all you have in this world Mariam, and when I’m gone you’ll have nothing. You ARE nothing!

Servants honor their master by their service.

When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.

A Master who cannot bow to a disciple cannot bow to Buddha.

Darkness does not age; nothing is always nothing

Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body.

O your life, your lonely lifeWhat have you ever done with it,And done with the great gift of consciousness?What will you ever do before Death's knifeProvides the answer ultimate and appropriate?As I for my part felt in my heart as one who falls,Falls in a parachute, falls endlessly, and feels the vastDraft of the abyss sucking him down and down,An endlessly helplessly falling and appalled clown:This is the way the night passes by, thisIs the overnight endless trip to the famous unfathomable abyss.

Soon I will fall asleep and I will wake from this terrible dream. The endless night will fall, and I will rise. I long for that night. I do not fear it. I have had my fill of fear. I have stared too long into the abyss, and now the abyss stares back at me.

The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet.

This is. And thou art. There is no safety. There is no end. The word must be heard in silence. There must be darkness to see the stars. The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.

There was, like, this black hole where the world used to be, and we were both falling toward it. What could we hold on to?

I cling to nowhere until I fall - the crash of Nothing.

I myself am an absolute abyss.

This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone.