Quotes About Home Tolkien

#1. His poem is like a play in a room through the windows of which a distant view can be seen over a large part of the English traditions about the world of their original home. (Tolkien on the author of Beowulf)

J.R.R. Tolkien

#2. Is there any peace without a prayer?

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. He turned his head to avoid seeing the happy tableau of pleasures that he had passionately loved and that he would never enjoy again.

Marcel Proust

#4. I am at home among trees.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#5. Hasn't it ever occurred to you that in your promiscuous pursuit of women you are merely trying to assuage your subconscious fears of sexual impotence?"
"Yes, sir, it has."
"Then why do you do it?"
"To assuage my fears of sexual impotence.

Joseph Heller

#6. Roads go ever ever on
Under cloud and under star,
Yet feet that wandering have gone
Turn at last to home afar

J.R.R. Tolkien

#7. Getting rid of dragons is not at all in my line, but I will do my best to think about it. Personally I have no hopes at all, and wish I was safe back at home.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#8. He slept curled up on the hard rock more soundly than ever he had done on his feather-bed in his own little hole at home. But all night he dreamed of his own house and wandered in his sleep into all his different rooms looking for something that he could not find nor remember what it looked like.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#9. Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you've done since you left home.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#10. My books are likely to contain food stains and rings from my tea cups. A book is to be lived with and used.

Kristin Cashore

#11. He wondered what the man's name was and where he came from; and if he was really evil of heart, or what lies or threats had led him on the long march from his home; and if he would not really rather have stayed there in peace

J.R.R. Tolkien

#12. Old Tom Bombadil water-lilies bringing Comes hopping home again. Can you hear him singing?

J.R.R. Tolkien

#13. One could say that Osama bin Laden and these non-nation-state fighters with religious purpose are very similar to those kind of atypical revolutionaries that helped to cast off the British crown.

Marcy Kaptur

#14. I wish I was at home in my nice hole by the fire, with the kettle just beginning to sing!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#15. We could mate. In a year our nestlings would be large enough to mob anyone we like ... Should I begin to court you? Do you like grubs or ants better? ... I will be here. In case you change your mind about mating.

Tamora Pierce

#16. Words can destroy. What we call each other ultimately becomes what we think of each other, and it matters.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

#17. The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came from. And if he was really evil at heart. What lies or threats led him on this long march from home. If he would not rather have stayed there in peace. War will make corpses of us all.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#18. It wasn't the fog I minded, Cathleen. I really love fog. [ ... ] It hides you from the world and the world from you. You feel that everything has changed, and nothing is what it seemed to be. No one can find or touch you any more.

Eugene O'Neill

#19. Bother burgling and everything to do with it! I wish I was at home In my nice hole by the fire, with the kettle just beginning to sing! It was not the last time that he wished that!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#20. Farmer Giles went home feeling very uncomfortable. He was finding that a local reputation may require keeping up, and that may prove awkward.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#21. But our back is to legends and we are coming home. I suppose this is the first taste of it.'
'There is a long road yet,' said Gandalf.
'But it is the last road,' said Bilbo.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#22. Stimulate don't Annihilate.

Lee Haney

#23. Martial (the main character of LOCUS SOLUS) has a very interesting conception of literary beauty: the work must contain nothing real, no observations about the world or the mind, nothing but completely imaginary constructions. These are in themselves ideas from an extrahuman world.

Pierre Janet

#24. He called it the Carrock, because carrock is his word for it. He calls things like that carrocks, and this one is the Carrock because it is the only one near his home and he knows it well.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#25. As we all know, the most effective lies are the ones sprinkled with the most actual truths.

Jonah Goldberg

#26. Fuck off, I said. Which always means I've lost an argument. I started backing out of the tomb.

Rainbow Rowell

#27. But be careful about the parts you agree to play ... You never know when one is going to stick.

Edward Bloor

#28. Home is now behind you, the world is ahead!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#29. The sea calls us home

J.R.R. Tolkien

#30. Home is behind, the world ahead, And there are many paths to tread Through shadows to the edge of night, Until the stars are all alight.

J.R.R. Tolkien