J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown.

Anything for a quiet life.

I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done.

I've had plenty of good times and have settled peacefully into quite a boring existence that I love. I had enough fireworks and chaos. It is a blissful boring life, believe me.

I'm a guy who doesn't really care about glamour and big markets; I like to be home all day.

Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.

Nothing's as good as holding on to safety.

I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.' I should think so — in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!

We are plain quiet folk, and I have no use for adventures. Nasty, disturbing, and uncomfortable things.

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.

To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.

The fact is that I like thrillers and action movies. But what really fulfills me is getting out of my comfort zone, taking chances.

The best of life is life lived quietly, where nothing happens but our calm journey through the day, where change is imperceptible and the precious life is everything.

What sweet delight a quiet life affords.

There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar voices, friends that never quarreled with her, clever, powerful friends -- daring and knowledgeable, tried and tested adventurers who had traveled far and wide. Her books cheered her up when she was sad and kept her from being bored.

Stay, stay at home, my heart and rest; Home-keeping hearts are happiest.

Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!

Many people go into the wilderness to experience it, and if they experience it in comfort, there's very little in a literary sense for them to write about.

As a comforter, philosophy cannot compete with a good dinner.

Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.

The only reason a road is good as every wanderer knows / Is just because of the homes, the homes, the homes to which one goes

You know you've had too much to eat for Christmas dinner when you slump down onto a beanbag and realize... there is no beanbag.

It takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it home

You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.

Hey, I always say: if you want a quiet life, become a monk.