J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

Everything that anyone would ever look for is usually where they find it.

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something.

We all look. The lucky find.

I just go out and try to make sense of the world around me.

If you tell people what everything is before they have a chance to experience it, then I feel like it's a much different experience.

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

I try to find the picture, not create it.

One must look for one thing only, to find many.

No matter how prosaic something is that you've done and been a part of again and again, there is so much more there that you haven't seen.

Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and you're like an immigrant to your own world. You don't have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it.

The word "question" originates from the Latin root, quaestio, which means "to seek." Inside the word "question" is the word "quest," suggesting that within every question is an adventure, a pursuit which can lead us to hidden treasure.

To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.

It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.

Seeking is a necessary preliminary to finding, and one who cannot endure the hardship of inquiry cannot expect to harvest the fruit of knowledge.

You ride astride the imaginary in order to hunt down the real.

Only those who seek shall find.

You have to continue and discover the grammar of things, of what we can see.

As long as we keep searching, the answers come.

You have to know how to look even if you don't know what you're looking for.

A photograph is just a little, teeny-weeny, small piece of life. I feel like I see so much more than what I can actually get.

Things never happen exactly how you think they will.