J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

There's no harm in talking to yourself, but try to avoid telling yourself jokes you've heard before.

I talk to myself, especially in the car.

I talk to myself a lot.

By myself walking, To myself talking.

Have you ever had one of those moments when you look up and realize that you're one of those people you see on the train talking to themselves?

I do talk to myself, just not in a whisper. But I have caught myself sometimes.

In one thing you have not changed, dear friend," said Aragorn: "you still speak in riddles." "What? In riddles?" said Gandalf. "No! For I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to; the long explanations needed by the young are wearying.

Why d'ye talk to yourself?' 'It assures me of a good listener.

When you talk to yourself, at least you know that someone is listening.

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening.

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

I often talk to myself while walking down the street. I did it as a kid.

As I walk'd by myself, I talk'd to myself, And myself replied to me; And the questions myself then put to myself, With their answers I give to thee.

I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I am so clever I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

I feel like so much of my life is about a conversation I'm having with myself. I do interact with other people, but often I'm more interested in what I'm learning in the relationship I have with myself.

If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others.

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. The remarkable thing is that the cessation of the inner dialogue marks also the end of our concern with the world around us. It is as if we noted the world and think about it only when we have to report it to ourselves.

I can once more carry on a conversation with myself, and don't stare so into complete emptiness. Only in this way is there any possibility of improvement for me.

In the end, as you get older and older, your life is your life, and you are alone with it.

Talking to yourself proves only one thing: you're still unable to tell the difference between good and bad company.

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

I'm self-entertaining. My dialogue is with myself.

I guess I'm attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And it's why I tend to write about older characters, too, because for them the stakes are somewhat higher.

The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.