J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

My Precious, my Precious.

It is mine, I tell you. My own. My precious. Yes, my precious.

We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have.

I was doing that thing the infatuated do, stitching destiny onto the person we want stitched to us.

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.

Good because I want you too. Now. Forever. Just you

Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.

It's one thing to want money, but if you find yourself choking on a coin as you wake, the money is slightly less desirable.

You are mine, always, if ye will it or no, if ye want me or nay. Mine, and I willna let ye go

I can’t let you go now. I want to go places with you; obscure little places, just to be able to say: here I came with her.

I saw you, and I wanted to be close to you. I wanted you to let me in. I wanted to know you in a way no one else did. I wanted you, all of you. That wanting nearly drove me mad.” Patch paused, inhaling softly, as though breathing me in. “And now that I have you, the only thing that terrifies me is having to go back to that place. Having to want you all over again, with no hope of my desire ever being fulfilled. You’re mine, Angel. Every last piece of you. I won’t let anything change that.

I want you too much. I want you with me, in my life, in my bed. If i can have that, nothing else matters.

What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.

Because I’ve had a taste and I’m not sharing. This isn’t just for fun. I may be slightly addicted.

This man belongs to me, I want him!

Oh love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me. I'll be anybody you want me to be.

It'll be impossible to protect Brittany for the rest of her life from all the other guys who want to be near her, to see her as I've seen her. Touch her as I've touch her. Man, I never want to let her go.

We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious. They stole it from us. Sneaky little hobbitses. Wicked, tricksy, false!

I want whatever part of you I can have.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

Whatever you want too much you can't have, so when you really want something, try to want it a little less.