J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

There is no composing draught like the draught through the tube of a pipe.

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

When new hopes fail, old hopes return in the endless cycle of desperation.

Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.

The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.

So now I just assume that it won't work, and that if it does work, I'll lose it anyway. This is meant to protect me, although it doesn't, because somehow the hope sneakily finds its way in. I'm never aware of the hope until it's gone, whooshed away like a rug pulled from under my feet, each time I hear another "I'm sorry.

Hope hurt more than the cold.

you wouldn't happen to have a pipe and a bit of tobacco about, would- i heard that! gandalf enjoyed a good pipe! why do you think he's called gandalf the gray? it wasn't for the color of his robes

Without dreams, there could be no despair.

And thus of all my harvest-hope I have Nought reaped but a weedye crop of care.

Perhaps. But the firstborn of hope is tragedy.

In the fairy tales, the poor girl smiles when she becomes a princess. Right now, I don't know if I'll ever smile again.

For in hope's absence, a miracle arrived

Maybe it didn’t seem like a big deal to you Zach. But now, I hope you understand. My world was collapsing. I needed those notes. I needed any hope those notes might have offered. And you? You took that hope away. You decided I didn’t deserve to have it.

I guess there's a lot we hope for that never happens.

I’ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that’s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust.

I wish I could tell him I understand: the higher you raise your hopes, the farther you have to fall.

Help me give up my addiction to Hope.

He who has never hoped can never despair

She felt the abyss of disenchantment.

If the truth didn't help anyone, and love didn't last, what was there left to struggle toward?

My hopes were all dead --- struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-born in the land of Egypt. I looked on my cherished wishes, yesterday so blooming and glowing; they lay stark, chill, livid corpses that could never revive.

Life is like a movie, if you've sat through more than half of it and it’s sucked every second so far, it probably isn't going to get great right at the end and make it all worthwhile. None should blame you for walking out early.

Goals incapable of attainment have driven many a man to despair, but despair is easier to get to than that -- one need merely look out of the window, for example.

He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.