J.R.R. Tolkien, The Children Of Húrin Quotes

A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.

Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.

On their deathbed men will speak true, they say.

Grief is a hone to a hard mind.

This was the first of the sorrows of Turin.

Perhaps it is better not to tell what you wish. if you cannot have it.

But whenever I say that I will do this or that, it looks very different when the time comes.