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

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

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

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

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

On their deathbed men will speak true, they say.

This was the first of the sorrows of Turin.

Grief is a hone to a hard mind.