Epic Inspiration: A Curated Collection of Lord of the Rings Quotes to Uplift Your Spirit

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"'Come, Mr. Frodo!' he cried. 'I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you.'"

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"‘I wish it need not have happened in my time,’ said Frodo. ‘So do I,’ said Gandalf, ‘and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.’"

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."

- Gandalf

"There’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo … and it’s worth fighting for."

- Sam Gamgee

"You can trust us to stick to you through thick and thin—to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours—closer than you yourself keep it. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word. We are your friends."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"PIPPIN: I didn't think it would end this way. GANDALF: End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it. PIPPIN: What? Gandalf? See what? GANDALF: White shores, and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise. PIPPIN: Well, that isn't so bad. GANDALF: No. No, it isn't."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out."

- Lady Galadriel

"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"There is always hope."

- Aragorn

"Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand—that and such hope as I bring."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Even the smallest person can change the course of the future."

- Galadriel

"Who knows? Have patience. Go where you must go, and hope!"

- Gandalf

"This day does not belong to one man but to all. Let us together rebuild this world that we may share in the days of peace."

- Aragorn

"I can't carry it for you... but I can carry you!"

- Samwise Gamgee

"Despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not."

- Gandalf

"There's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for."

- Samwise Gamgee

"Hope is never mere, even when it is meager."

- Gil-Galad

"Everyone, each of us, needs to decide who we shall be."

- Queen Regent Míriel

"Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something."

- WILLIAM GOLDMAN

"Though here at journey’s end I lie in darkness buried deep, beyond all towers strong and high, beyond all mountains steep, above all shadows rides the sun and stars for ever dwell: I will not say the day is done, nor bid the stars farewell"

- Sam

"Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on the story"

- Bilbo Baggins

"The Road goes ever on and on down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, and I must follow, if I can"

- Bilbo Baggins

"Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised."

- Aragorn

"But no living man am I!"

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish."

- Bill Gates

"The world is not in your books and maps. It's out there."

- Gandalf the Grey

"Some believe that it is only great power that can hold evil in check. But that is not what I've found. I found it is the small things. Everyday deeds by ordinary folk that keeps the darkness at bay."

- Gandalf the Grey

"Put aside the Ranger. Become who you were born to be."

- Elrond

"Your time will come. You will face the same Evil, and you will defeat it."

- Arwen

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"It is useless to meet revenge with revenge: it will heal nothing."

- Frodo Baggins

"God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world."

- C.S. LEWIS

"The Quest stands upon the edge of a knife. Stray but a little, and it will fail, to the ruin of all. Yet hope remains while the Company is true."

- Lady Galadriel

"But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"For behold! the storm comes, and now all friends should gather together, lest each singly be destroyed."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is, has left the path of wisdom."

- Gandalf

"The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"It is a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt over so small a thing … such a little thing."

- Boromir

"Oft hope is born when all is forlorn."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Do not trouble your hearts overmuch with thought of the road tonight. Maybe the paths that you each shall tread are already laid before your feet, though you do not see them."

- Lady Galadriel

"You step into the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Not all those who wander are lost."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Roads go ever ever on, Over rock and under tree, By caves where never sun has shone, By streams that never find the sea; Over snow by winter sown, And through the merry flowers of June, Over grass and over stone, And under mountains in the moon. Roads go ever ever on, Under cloud and under star. Yet feet that wandering have gone Turn at last to home afar. Eyes that fire and sword have seen, And horror in the halls of stone Look at last on meadows green, And trees and hills they long have known. The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way, Where many paths and errands meet. The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with weary feet, Until it joins some larger way, Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say. The Road goes ever on and on Out from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone. Let others follow, if they can! Let them a journey new begin. But I at last with weary feet Will turn towards the lighted inn, My evening-rest and sleep to meet."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Still round the corner there may wait a new road or a secret gate, and though I oft have passed them by, a day will come at last when I shall take the hidden paths that run west of the moon, east of the sun"

- Frodo

"I am going with him, if he climbs to the Moon."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Don't go where I can't follow!"

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship."

- Aragorn

"Beauty has great power to heal the soul."

- Arondir

"I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"None knows what the new day shall bring him."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Don't adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on the story."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"For we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on the story."

- Bilbo Baggins

"Let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall."

- Elrond

"I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Do not then stumble at the end of the road."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens"

- Gimli

"Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps greater"

- Haldir

"I feel that as long as the Shire lies behind, safe and comfortable, I shall find wandering more bearable: I shall know that somewhere there is a firm foothold, even if my feet cannot stand there again"

- Frodo

"Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars."

- J. R. R. Tolkien

"Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"'He stands not alone... You would die before your stroke fell.'"

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"I wished to be loved by another, but I desire no man's pity."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil"

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"If you’re going through hell, keep going."

- Winston Churchill

"Often does hatred hurt itself!"

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man's heart than to behold the love of a lady so fair and brave that cannot be returned."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Elves and Dragons! Cabbages and potatoes are better for me and you. Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection."

- Thomas Paine

"Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us."

- David Richo

"What matters most is how well you walk through the fire."

- Charles Bukowski

"Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it."

- RABINDRANATH TAGORE

"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."

- M. Kathleen Casey

"After the rain, the sun will reappear. There is life. After the pain, the joy will still be here."

- WALT DISNEY

"Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what matters."

- JIM MORRISON

"There is a saying in Tibetan, ‘Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength’. No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that’s our real disaster."

- DALAI LAMA

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

- Anaïs Nin

"Smile, though your heart is aching. Smile, even though it’s breaking. When there are clouds in the sky, you’ll get by if you smile through your pain and sorrow. Smile and maybe tomorrow, you’ll see the sun come shining through for you."

- CHARLIE CHAPLIN

"All’s well that ends better."

- Hamfast Gamgee

"Pain introduces you to your highest self."

- PAUL DOMENICK

"Speak, or I will make a dint in your hat that even a wizard will find it hard to deal with!"

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Nobody can hurt me without my permission."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom."

- ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

"I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"The pain you feel today will be the strength you feel tomorrow."

"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement."

"There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach."

"Yet the deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised."

"A long one so sorry. In rode the Lord of the Nazgûl. A great black shape against the fires beyond he loomed up, grown to a vast menace of despair. In rode the Lord of the Nazgûl, under the archway that no enemy ever yet had passed, and all fled before his face. All save one. There waiting, silent and still in the space before the Gate, sat Gandalf upon Shadowfax: Shadowfax who alone among the free horses of the earth endured the terror, unmoving, steadfast as a graven image in Rath Dínen. "You cannot enter here," said Gandalf, and the huge shadow halted. "Go back to the abyss prepared for you! Go back! Fall into the nothingness that awaits you and your Master. Go!" The Black Rider flung back his hood, and behold! he had a kingly crown; and yet upon no head visible was it set. The red fires shone between it and the mantled shoulders vast and dark. From a mouth unseen there came a deadly laughter. "Old fool!" he said. "Old fool! This is my hour. Do you not know Death when you see it? Die now and curse in vain!" And with that he lifted high his sword and flames ran down the blade. And in that very moment, away behind in some courtyard of the city, a cock crowed. Shrill and clear he crowed, recking nothing of war nor of wizardry, welcoming only the morning that in the sky far above the shadows of death was coming with the dawn. And as if in answer there came from far away another note. Horns, horns, horns, in dark Mindolluin's sides they dimly echoed. Great horns of the north wildly blowing. Rohan had come at last."

"And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky. And he cared not, that they stood high on the walls in the sight of many."

"Adversity is the first path to truth."