Eucatastrophe Quotes & Sayings

The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation - This story begins and ends in joy. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The camera has its own kind of consciousness; in the lens the Garden of Eden itself would become ever so slightly too perfect. — Arthur Miller

I'm crazy for trying, crazy for crying, and I'm crazy for loving you. — Willie Nelson

The Gospels contain a fairy-story, or a story of a larger kind which embraces all the essence of fairy-stories. They contain many marvels - peculiarly artistic,1 beautiful, and moving: 'mythical' in their perfect, self-contained significance; and among the marvels is the greatest and most complete conceivable eucatastrophe. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The United States needs to be made more appealing to legal immigrants. — Mitt Romney

My grandmother had a picture of herself as a close-lipped, silent, reserved individual without curiosity, who never asked personal questions. Actually, of course, she was a talkative, jolly, interminably curious woman, who loved people, and who enjoyed the personal details of their lives almost as much as they did themselves. — Molly Picon

Jan Dhan Yojana is at the core of our philosophy of 'Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas' & we will work towards its success. — Narendra Modi

The Resurrection was the greatest 'eucatastrophe' possible in the greatest Fairy Story - and produces that essential emotion: Christian joy which produces tears because it is qualitatively so like sorrow, because it comes from those places where Joy and Sorrow are at one, reconciled, as selfishness and altruism are lost in Love. — J.R.R. Tolkien