"I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them. But I don't feel like that now. I feel that as long as the Shire lies behind, safe and comfortable, I shall find wandering more bearable: I shall know that somewhere there is a firm foothold, even if my feet cannot stand there again."

carrying the world around his neck

"I see no hope of it now. But I've got to do the best I can."

“Gandalf died, because of me. Had he not joined, he would be alive. And even now, I am failing him…”

“For a part of me now, dear Gandalf, greatly desires it, and I begin to feel, that we cannot be parted now, in separation or togetherness..it has taken it’s hold, and I am afraid – as I am wanting.”