J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

There are times when I think, 'I'm going to get this part. I know I am. I'm going to get this.' And then I don't, and I'm wondering, 'What happened? I went back five times!'

I just never count on anything. You can't.

I think the moment you're convinced something's going to be good is the moment that it's not going to be.

Things don't always work out as you want them to.

The promise of change doesn't always mean something changes.

And that was it. All this buildup to a great leap, and I didn't fall or fly. Instead I found myself back on the edge of the cliff, blinking, wondering if I'd ever jumped at all. It's not supposed to be like this.

Nothing was quite like it was supposed to be.

My God, I have come with the seeds of questions. I planted them, and they never flowered.

She tried to be someone people liked. She tried to be someone people disliked. But all I became was someone who didn't succeed with anything I tried to be.

I was feeling that I was the in the dead-end circuit from 1980 to 1983, and I didn't know what else to do. I remember doing a show in some college town, in a tiny club, and afterward some fans came back. I thought I had done good gig and they were going to tell me that.

I'm famous now. But now that I've got fame and some of the other things I thought would make me happy - it ain't worked

As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end.

Everything comes to nothing in the end, I suppose. Or at least, nothing happens exactly the way we imagine it.

The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but pass and die.

Are you angry that others disappoint you? Remember you cannot depend upon yourself.

I went whale watching once. It was very similar to watching people on a boat become disappointed.

Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves.

The road to someday leads to a town of nowhere.

Promising a revolution that’s simply not feasible really does have the potential to create cynicism when a couple of years go by and it hasn’t happened.

Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.

I like the way the morning can be stormy and the afternoon clear and sparkly as a jewel in the water. Put your hand in the water to reach for a sea urchin or a sea shell, and the thing desired never quite lies where you had lined it up to be. The same is true of love. In prospect or contemplation, love is where it seems to be. Reach in to lift it out and your hand misses

Success - To rise from the illusion of pursuit to the disillusion of possession.

Expectations destroy our peace of mind. They are future disappointments, planned out in advance.

It bothered me that whatever was waiting wasn't waiting for me

Everything seems stupid when it fails.