“‘Here then at last comes the ending of the Fellowship of the Ring,’ said Aragorn . . . ‘I fear that we shall not all be gathered together ever again’ . . . Then Treebeard said farewell to each of them in turn . . . ‘It is sad’ [he said], that we should meet only thus at the ending. For the world is changing. I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, and I smell it in the air. I do not think we shall meet again.’

“There is no real going back. Though I may come to the Shire, it will not seem the same; for I shall not be the same.”  Frodo on preparing to return to the shire.

“‘Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens,’ said Gimli.
‘Maybe,’ said Elrond, ‘but let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not see the nightfall.’
‘Yet sworn word may strengthen quaking heart,’ said Gimli.”

” I was born upon the prairie where the wind blew free, and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures, and where everything drew free breath. I want to die there, and not within walls.” – Ten Bears, Comanche Chief

“Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly and leave the rest to God.”

“…I like libraries.  It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me.  I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows.” Corwin in The Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny

I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe.
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Time to die. (Remember Roy in Blade Runner?)