Top 500 J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes (2023 Update)

1. “Not all who wander are lost.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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2. “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

3. “All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

4. “There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

5. “Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Featured in: Kindness Quotes, Quotes About Believing, Evil Quotes

6. “Courage is found in unlikely places.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Featured in: Courage Quotes

7. “No victory without suffering.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Featured in: Victory Quotes, Suffering Quotes

8. “Who cannot understand your silence, cannot understand your words.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Featured in: Silence Quotes

9. “The world is not in your books and maps, it’s out there.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Featured in: Book Quotes, Quotes About World

10. “The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Featured in: Adventure Quotes, Hiking Quotes

11. “Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

12. “From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Featured in: Happiness Quotes

14. “Above all shadows rides the sun.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

15. “May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Featured in: Quotes About Light

16. “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

17. “End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

18. “The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

19. “Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Featured in: Good Morning Quotes

20. “It is no bad thing celebrating a simple life.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

21. “If you do not believe in a personal God, the question: ‘What is the purpose of life?’ is unaskable and unanswerable.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Featured in: Quotes About Purpose

22. “It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

23. “May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

24. “Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

25. “Look, up at the sky. There is a light, a beauty up there, that no shadow can touch.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

26. “Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

27. “One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

28. “True education is a kind of never ending story – a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Featured in: Quotes About Stories

29. “Home is now behind you, the world is ahead!”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Featured in: Quotes About Home

30. “The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, For none now live who remember it.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

31. “It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

32. “For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Featured in: Wise Quotes

33. “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

34. “War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

35. “Never laugh at live dragons.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

36. “I will not walk backward in life.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

37. “Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

38. “What punishments of God are not gifts?”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

39. “No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

40. “I do not believe this darkness will endure.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

41. “Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Featured in: Quotes About Hope

42. “Home is behind, the world ahead, And there are many paths to tread Through shadows to the edge of night, Until the stars are all alight. Then world behind and home ahead, We’ll wander back and home to bed. Mist and twilight, cloud and shade, Away shall fade! Away shall fade!”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

43. “I’m looking for someone to share in an adventure.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

44. “There is a place called ‘heaven’ where the good here unfinished is completed; and where the stories unwritten, and the hopes unfulfilled, are continued. We may laugh together yet.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

45. “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

46. “The burned hand teaches best.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

47. “Great heart will not be denied.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

48. “I wish it need not have happened in my time,’ said Frodo. ‘So do I,’ said Gandalf, ’and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

49. “All that is gold does not glitter.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

50. “I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien