J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked. "A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fear, Age, Desire

• Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament....There you will find romance, glory, honor, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves upon earth, and more than that: death: by the divine paradox, that which ends life, and demands the surrender of all, and yet by the taste (or foretaste) of which alone can what you seek in your earthly relationships (love, faithfulness, joy) be maintained, or take on that complexion of reality, of eternal endurance, that every man's heart desires

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Blessed, Heart, Men

• I wished to be loved by another. But I desire no man's pity.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Men, Desire, Pity

  "The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings".

• I desired dragons with a profound desire. Of course, I in my timid body did not wish to have them in the neighborhood. But the world that contained even the imagination of Fáfnir was richer and more beautiful, at whatever the cost of peril.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Beautiful, Dragons, Profound

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Tales from the Perilous Realm”, p.295, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Evidently we look so much alike that your desire to make an incurable dent in my hat must be excused.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Desire, Looks, Hats

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.487, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror, be it clear as Kheled-zaram. Or so says the heart of Gimli the Dwarf.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Memories, Heart, Dwarves

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.267, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• But the only measure that he knows is desire desire for power and so he judges all hearts. Into his heart the thought will not enter that any will refuse it that having the Ring we may seek to destroy it. If we seek this we shall put him out of reckoning.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Heart, Judging, Desire

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Memory is not what the heart desires.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Memories, Heart, Desire

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.267, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• We are truth-speakers, we men of Gondor. We boast seldom, and then perform, or die in the attempt. "Not if I found it on the highway would I take it," I said. Even if I were such a man as to desire this thing, and even though I knew not clearly what this thing was when I spoke, still I should take those words as a vow, and be held by them.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Men, Desire, Gondor

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.464, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• I have an unsatisfied desire to shoot well with a bow.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Desire, Bows, Wells

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin