J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

The bridge will only take you halfway there, to those mysterious lands you long to see. Through gypsy camps and swirling Arab fair, and moonlit woods where unicorns run free. So come and walk awhile with me and share the twisting trails and wondrous worlds I've known. But this bridge will only take you halfway there. The last few steps you have to take alone.

Running down a dream... working on a mystery... going wherever it leads.

I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.

Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.

There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them.

I find this life so interesting.

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

Once, the world was full of mysteries, some of them frightening, some of them wonderful, some of them merely fascinating. Now, it can be a banal and predictable place, the tracks of daily life so well-beaten and defined, our culture awash with the imbecile obvious, our existence suffocating in safety. But mysteries remain.

Movement has been one of the few constants in my life, and I always feel a great sense of optimism when I set off to a new place.

If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn't it?

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

I have spent my life on the road waking in a pleasant, or not so pleasant hotel, and setting off every morning after breakfast hoping to discover something new and repeatable, something worth writing about.

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

Life for me is about movement.

Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.

I see the world as an adventure thriller and a voyage of discovery. To me, all lives are lives of mystery and secrecy, and that's what I write about.

Journey is my life now.

There is a lot of the world that is undiscovered.