Big Books of 2026

Joy > Joy's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 235
« previous 1 3 4 5 6 7 8
sort by

    like
  • #1
    Francis Bacon
    “Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
    ― Sir Francis Bacon
    tags: books, reading
    8667 likes

    • like
  • #2
    Cornelia Funke
    “Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.”
    ― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell
    tags: inspirational
    4506 likes

    • like
  • #3
    Cornelia Funke
    “So what? All writers are lunatics!”
    ― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell
    tags: humor, writing
    1730 likes

    • like
  • #4
    Orson Scott Card
    “It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, The Folk of the Fringe
    tags: women
    645 likes

    • like
  • #5
    Orson Scott Card
    “Ethan Wyeth: I hope you're thirsty."
    Gideon Wyeth:"Why?"
    Ethan: "Cause your dumb and ugly, but I can do something about thirsty.”
    ― Orson Scott Card
    tags: advent-rising, funny, humour, stupid
    809 likes

    • like
  • #6
    Orson Scott Card
    “This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead
    746 likes

    • like
  • #7
    Orson Scott Card
    “If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
    tags: hard-work, inaction, just-do-it, success, team
    1460 likes

    • like
  • #8
    Orson Scott Card
    “Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Alvin Journeyman
    tags: metaphors, truth
    227 likes

    • like
  • #9
    Orson Scott Card
    “When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead
    tags: hate, understanding-others
    554 likes

    • like
  • #10
    Orson Scott Card
    “Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Hart's Hope
    tags: enemies, friendship, home
    185 likes

    • like
  • #11
    Orson Scott Card
    “Please don't disillusion me. I haven't had breakfast yet.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind
    122 likes

    • like
  • #12
    Orson Scott Card
    “Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most dear.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind
    203 likes

    • like
  • #13
    Orson Scott Card
    “If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement.”
    ― Orson Scott Card
    tags: learning
    9 likes

    • like
  • #14
    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 Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: family, friends, parties, social
    12461 likes

    • like
  • #15
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “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.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    6922 likes

    • like
  • #16
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Never laugh at live dragons.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: dragons, wisdom
    8726 likes

    • like
  • #17
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: gandalf, grief
    5921 likes

    • like
  • #18
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: fantasy
    2021 likes

    • like
  • #19
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
    tags: fellowship, gamgee, hobbit, samwise, tolkien
    3023 likes

    • like
  • #20
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Children of Húrin
    1884 likes

    • like
  • #21
    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, The Lord of the Rings
    6344 likes

    • like
  • #22
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go
    To heal my heart and drown my woe
    Rain may fall, and wind may blow
    And many miles be still to go
    But under a tall tree will I lie
    And let the clouds go sailing by”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: drinking, liquor, poetry, sadness
    2105 likes

    • like
  • #23
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Courage is found in unlikely places.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: bravery, courage
    3214 likes

    • like
  • #24
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “You can only come to the morning through the shadows.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: lotr
    1442 likes

    • like
  • #25
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: benediction, gift, light
    3046 likes

    • like
  • #26
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: despair, elf, hope, legolas
    1232 likes

    • like
  • #27
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo-baggins, dissipation, old-age
    1154 likes

    • like
  • #28
    Steven Brust
    “Always speak politely to an enraged dragon.”
    ― Steven Brust, Jhereg
    tags: advice, dragons, manners, misattributed-to-tolkien
    626 likes

    • like
  • #29
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more--remembering my own sins and follies; and realize that men's hearts are not often as bad as their acts, and very seldom as bad as their words.”
    ― Tolkien J.R.R., The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: comforting
    521 likes

    • like
  • #30
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “If by my life or death I can protect you, I will. ”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: aragorn, loyalty
    1128 likes



Rss
« previous 1 3 4 5 6 7 8
All Quotes



Tags From Joy’s Quotes

books
reading
inspirational
humor
writing
women
advent-rising
funny
humour
stupid
hard-work
inaction
just-do-it
success
team
metaphors
truth
hate
understanding-others
enemies
friendship
home
learning
family
friends
parties
social
dragons
wisdom
gandalf
grief
fantasy
fellowship
gamgee
hobbit
samwise
tolkien
drinking
liquor
poetry
sadness
bravery
courage
lotr
benediction
gift
light
despair
elf
hope
legolas
bilbo-baggins
dissipation
old-age
advice
manners
misattributed-to-tolkien
comforting
aragorn
loyalty