J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

Politics are for the moment. An equation is for eternity.

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

On great fields something stays.

And who cares, five years down the road, what most movies made or didn't make? If it's good, it stands up.

I'm interested in designing for posterity.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

Never forget that what becomes timeless was once truly new.

When we build, let us think that we build for ever.

That's why I named my album 'Finding Forever,' because that's what I was thinking about: What did I want to contribute to this world that would live beyond my physical existence?

I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.

Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.

The work will stand, no matter what.

I believe in lifestyle changes, and when you think of something long term, you do it better. If I know I just have to eat this way for a week, how does that help you for the long term? It doesn't.

I think in some ways it's good to have at least one thing for which you could be really immortal, you know?

I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the taste of an immediate public, but was done to last for ever.

Things written, remain.

Things that are truly great will be timeless.

The stuff that's good is the stuff that lives on.

As an artist, as a person, I don't want to be here for just a little while.

All the buzz can be very much here today and gone tomorrow, but my focus is creating music that will last forever.

The one thing I do believe is, if you make the songs about the human aspects of things, you've got a much better chance of having the music transcend the times. If you make them very political and very topical, it's going to date very quickly.

We're just not going anywhere. Our songs are here to stay.

Every moment is, in some ways, eternal. Once you put something into the world, it stays there.