"Clothes are but little loss, if you escape from drowning."

Survival, Life, Loss, Materialism

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"Clothes are but little loss, if you escape from drowning."

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"A whale has nowhere to hide in a river."

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"There is no enemy that respect and love will not conquer. The moral authority for survival comes from respect."

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"I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

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"Sometimes the very things that we're expending our lives to sustain are the very things that are killing our ability to live. And against our blind and frequently raging protests, these are the very things that God let's die so that we can live."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"There is time for a fight and a time for a flight, knowing the right time to do one or the other can mean the difference between life and death."

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Explore more quotes by J. R. R. Tolkien

"Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger."

Anger

"The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril; both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords."

Imagination

"The mind that thought of light, heavy, grey, yellow, still, swift, also conceived of magic that would make heavy things light and be able to fly, turn grey lead into yellow gold, and the still rock into a swift water."

Reflection

"But the only measure that he knows is desire desire for power and so he judges all hearts. Into his heart the thought will not enter that any will refuse it that having the Ring we may seek to destroy it. If we seek this we shall put him out of reckoning."

Fantasy

"It seemed like all the way to tomorrow and over it to the days beyond."

Justice

"I propose to speak about fairy-stories, though I am aware that this is a rash adventure. FaA«rie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary and dungeons for the overbold."

Literature

"As they sang the hobbit felt in love of beautiful things made by hands and by cunning and by magic moving through him, a fierce and a jealous love, the desire of the hearts of dwarves."

Emotion

"I will not say: do not weep, for not all tears are an evil."

Emotion

"After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth', and indeed present aspects of it that can only be received in this mode; and long ago certain truths and modes of this kind were discovered and must always reappear."

Truth

"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. For even the very wise cannot see all ends."

Justice