J. R. R. Tolkien Hope Quotations

Onen i-Estel Edain, ú-chebin estel anim.'I gave Hope to the Dúnedain, I have kept no hope for myself.'

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.

Deserves it! I daresay he does. 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. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. I have not much hope that Gollum can be cured before he dies, but there is a chance of it. And he is bound up with the fate of the Ring. My heart tells me that he has some part to play yet, for good or ill, before the end; and when that comes, the pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many - yours not least.

We must do without hope.

I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory.

It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope.

Many are the strange chances of the world,' said Mithrandir, 'and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.

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.

There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.

False hopes are more dangerous than fears.

It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.

Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.