Authors:
  1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. J
  4. J. R. R. Tolkien
  5. Silence

J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes about Silence

All J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes Adventure Age Art Beer Bones Children Country Courage Darkness Death Penalty Desire Doom Doubt Earth Evil Faith Fate Fear Giving Glory Gold Goodbye Grief Hate Hatred Healing Heart Heaven Hills Home Hope House Hurt Imagination Inspiration Inspirational Inspiring Journey Joy Language Laughter Life Loss Lying Magic Manifestation Memories Moon Morning Mountain Myth Nature Pain Past Philosophy Pleasure Praise Purpose Rage Rain Reality Resurrection Rings Romance Running Saying Goodbye Silence quotes Sleep Son Sorrow Spring Suffering Summer Today Travel Twilight Victory Vision Waiting Wall War Warrior Water Wine Winter Wisdom Writing
Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.

Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Silence, Sticks, Speak
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A few melancholy birds were pipping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty silence fell

J. R. R. Tolkien
Silence, Bird, Shadow
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.137, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

You May Also Like: