Argyro Kalamara > Argyro's Quotes

“I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Deserves it! I daresay he does. 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.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming 'sub-creator' and inventing stories, can Man aspire to the state of perfection that he knew before the Fall. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“Although now long estranged,
Man is not wholly lost nor wholly changed.
Dis-graced he may be, yet is not de-throned,
and keeps the rags of lordship once he owned:
Man, Sub-creator, the refracted Light
through whom is splintered from a single White
to many hues, and endlessly combined
in living shapes that move from mind to mind.
Though all the crannies of the world we filled
with Elves and Goblins, though we dared to build
Gods and their houses out of dark and light,
and sowed the seed of dragons- 'twas our right
(used or misused). That right has not decayed:
we make still by the law in which we're made.

Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only made, but made in the image and likeness of a Maker.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, Tolkien On Fairy-stories

“Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud's terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It employs archetypes which, as Jung warned us, are dangerous things. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

“Παλιά η τέχνη όλων εκείνων που θέλουν να ελέγχουν τους ανθρώπους μέσω των ενοχών. Να μην ζουν αυτοί και να μην αφήνουν και τους άλλους να χαρούν τη ζωή.”
― π. Χαράλαμπος Παπαδόπουλος, Ο Κινέζος, ο θεός και η μοναξιά

“Φτάνει που μου πήραν ό,τι είχα στη γη, να μου κλέψουν και τον ουρανό; Πάει πολύ. Δε τους χαραμίζω τη ζωή μου.”
― π. Χαράλαμπος Παπαδόπουλος, Ο Κινέζος, ο θεός και η μοναξιά

“Όμως εγώ σκέφτομαι με τον δικό μου τρόπο. Και τούτο λέω: Ένα ιμαρέτ είναι η γη. Το ιμαρέτ του Θεού. Κι εμείς οι φτωχοί, τα ορφανά και οι ταξιδιώτες της ζωής, που μας φιλοξενεί. Μας τρέφει, ανοίγει την αγκαλιά του, μας δέχεται και μας επιτρέπει να απολαύσουμε και να χαρούμε τη ζωή. Κι εμείς θαρρούμε πως το διαφεντεύουμε. Το μοιράσαμε, είπαμε "αυτός ο τόπος δικός μας, εκείνος δικός σας" κι ύστερα ορμήσαμε ο ένας στον τόπο του άλλου, χωρίς να νογάμε ότι δεν ανήκει σε κανέναν. Μας άφησε ο Θεός αυτό το ιμαρέτ να το διαχειριστούμε κι εμείς αρπάζουμε, κλέβουμε, αδικούμε, εκμεταλλευόμαστε, διεκδικούμε όλο και περισσότερα, μέχρι την ώρα που θα επιστρέψουμε το τομάρι μας εκεί όπου ανήκει, στο χώμα. Και θ' αξίζει τότε με όσο ενός βοδιού ή ενός προβάτου, τίποτε παραπάνω.

*ιμαρέτ: φιλανθρωπικά ιδρύματα εντός ή εκτός των πόλεων που προσέφεραν τροφή σε ταξιδιώτες, ενώ λειτουργούσαν και ως ορφανοτροφεία και πτωχοτροφεία. Τα πιο πλούσια προσέφεραν και τροφή για τα ζώα-υποζύγια.”
― Yiannis Kalpouzos, Ιμαρέτ: Στη σκιά του ρολογιού