Quotes

From Tolkien's Lord of the Rings:

But either in his dreams or out of them, he could not tell which, Frodo heard a sweet singing running in his mind: a song that seemed to come like a pale light behind a grey rain-curtain, and growing stronger to turn the veil all to glass and silver, until at last it was rolled back, and a far green country opened before him under a swift sunrise. 

From Tolkien's Lord of the Rings:

         The Road goes ever on and on
            Down from the door where it began.
        Now far ahead the Road has gone,
            And I must follow, if I can,
        Pursuing it with eager feet,
            Until it joins some larger way
        Where many paths and errands meet.
            And whither then? I cannot say.

From C.S. Lewis' The Weight of Glory:  

Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.

From Albert Camus (ironic that he was an atheist):

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that inside me there lay an invincible summer.