J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

Oh, no. To live... to live would be an awfully big adventure.

Life is a risk.

You don't know where you'll end up.

It's a dangerous business, going out your door.

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

He used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs were at every doorstep, and every path was its tributary. 'It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door,' he used to say. 'You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.

What is life, but one long risk?

A lot of people don't like the road, but it's as natural to me as breathing.

'Gonzo' means taking an unknown thing to an unknown place for a known purpose. But sometimes we're lost in an unknown place for no known purpose.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

There is no certainty; there is only adventure.

Life is full of adventure. There's no such thing as a clear pathway.

A journey awakens all our old fears of danger and risk. Your life is on the line. You are living by your own resources; you have to find your own way and solve every problem on the road.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

You never know where history will lead you.

Sometimes, you have to take a big risk.

Make your choice, adventurous Stranger, Strike the bell and bide the danger, Or wonder, till it drives you mad, What would have followed if you had.

Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person.

Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind one sees the path that never will be trod again. Wanderer, there is no road-- Only wakes upon the sea. Caminante, son tus huellas el camino, y nada más; caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. Al andar se hace camino, y al volver la vista atrás se ve la senda que nunca se ha de volver a pisar. Caminante, no hay camino, sino estelas en la mar.

Here today, up and off to somewhere else tomorrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that's always changing!

I'll ride the wave, where it takes me!

Danger is to adventure what garlic is to spaghetti sauce. Without it, you just end up with stewed tomatoes.

Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.