J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

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

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

• 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

• Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of the reality, O Smaug the Chiefest and greatest of Calamities.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Song, Fall, Reality

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.89, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Every writer making a secondary world wishes in some measure to be a real maker, or hopes that he is drawing on reality: hopes that the peculiar quality of this secondary world (if not all the details) are derived from Reality, or are flowing into it.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Real, Drawing, Wish

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