“There Is A Pleasure In The Pathless Woods, There Is A Rapture On The Lonely Shore, There Is Society,

The seeker might aim to hide too, make sure the person you are waiting for is trustworthy if not there will be no one looking for you.

“Farewell," they cried, "Wherever you fare till your eyries receive you at the journey's end!" That is the polite thing to say among eagles." "May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks," answered Gandalf, who knew the correct reply.

Let sleeping wolves lie

We are not lonely, because we chose to be alone. We are not lost, because we chose to disappear.

“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring 

It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

"Sorry! I don’t want any adventures, thank you. Not Today. Good morning! But please come to tea – any time you like! Why not tomorrow? Good bye!" 

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.