J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Life, Change, Happiness

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Little by little, one travels far

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

• A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

• Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Inspirational, Life, Hope

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.859, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Inspirational, Life, Faith

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.201, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• False hopes are more dangerous than fears.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Life, False Hope, Dangerous

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Inspirational, Life, Meaningful

• Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

• May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Inspirational, Life, Travel

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.255, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Life, Silmarillion

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Silmarillion”, p.35, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Life, Experience, Looks

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.29, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Never laugh at live dragons.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Life, Wisdom, Dragons

  The Hobbit ch. 12 (1937)

• Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Life, Wisdom, Anger

  The Fellowship of the Ring bk. 1, ch. 3 (1954)

• 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

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate And though I oft have passed them by A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Life, Inspiring, Running

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.690, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Life, Nature, World

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Life, Art, Enemy

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.190, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• I wish life was not so short. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Life, Book, Beer

  "The Lost Road and Other Writings". Book by J. R. R. Tolkien. Chapter: "Alboin Errol", 1987.

• In doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Life, Men, Doubt

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.500, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Many are the strange chances of the world, and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Life, Wise, Hope

  "The Silmarillion". Book by J. R. R. Tolkien, 1977.

• I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Life, Helping

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.529, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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