💬 Quotes

"The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run."

"Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the full and flowing cup of solitude."

"And I only am escaped alone to tell thee."

"I am the instrument of God’s will, I am a goddamned instrument of God’s will!"

"Your fate is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."

"He was always so small, and his voice was always so strange, that you had to pay attention to what he was saying—you couldn't just listen to how he said it."

"When you are confused, you are usually at the beginning of some new understanding."

"I have looked for a miracle, and I have found one; it is a life that is given, not taken."

"Memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or perhaps it keeps things from you—and it is up to you to uncover them."

"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."

"I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone."

"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him."

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

"You are a fine person, Mr. Baggins, and I am very fond of you; but you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all!"

"Go back? No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!"

"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect."

"What if I were to sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense?"

"He was a tool of the employer, without brains or backbone."

"I will get out of bed now, before a quarter to seven comes around."

"It has to go. You must try to get rid of the idea that it is Gregor. The fact that we believed it for so long is the root of all our trouble."