"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."

rabdomscrazyness:

Seriously, though, the only reason I would have wanted Boromir to live in Lord of the Rings is because I would want a scene - in the movie or cut scene - in between Frodo’s awakening and the coronation where the Fellowship is just sitting around eating dinner and the whole time Boromir’s just been sitting there quietly until Aragorn asks him what’s wrong and Boromir just looks up with a rather bemused face and goes

“Looks like I was wrong. One can simply walk to Mordor.”