Samwise Quotes:

It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

source: "Fictional character: Sam". "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers", www.imdb.com. 2002.

topic: Darkness, Shadow, World, Sun Shines, Fantasy Stories

Let him go, you filth! Let him go! You will not touch him again!

- J. R. R. Tolkien

source: "Fictional character: Sam". "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King", www.imdb.com. 2003.

topic: Filth, Samwise Gamgee, Let Him Go, Return Of The King, Samwise

Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going because they were holding on to something.... That there's some good in the world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

source: "Fictional character: Sam". "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers", 2002.

topic: Fighting, Towers, Stories, Worth Fighting For, Things Worth Fighting For

One tiny Hobbit against all the evil the world could muster. A sane being would have given up, but Samwise burned with a magnificent madness, a glowing obsession to surmount every obstacle, to find Frodo, destroy the Ring, and cleanse Middle Earth of its festering malignancy. He knew he would try again. Fail, perhaps. And try once more. A thousand, thousand times if need be, but he would not give up the quest.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

topic: Giving Up, Glowing, Evil, Malignancy, Festering

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

- J. R. R. Tolkien

source: "Fictional character: Galadriel". "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring", www.imdb.com. 2001.

topic: Abortion, Smallest, Persons, Lord Of The Ring, Fellowship Of The Ring

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

- J. R. R. Tolkien

topic: Inspirational, Life, Jobs, Motivational Work, Lord Of The Ring

Frodo: Go back, Sam! I’m going to Mordor alone. Sam: Of course you are, and I’m coming with you!

- J. R. R. Tolkien

topic: Fellowship, Samwise Gamgee, Frodo, Fellowship Of The Ring, Frodo Baggins

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

source: J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Death, Wish, Needs, Inspiring Movie, Motivational Life Changing

All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

source: J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.127, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Faith, Strong, Kings, Inspiring Movie, Travel Light

A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

source: "Fictional character: Sam". "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers", www.imdb.com. 2002.

topic: New Day, Shining, Towers, Sun Shines, Worth Fighting For

There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tower 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.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

topic: Faith, Stars, Heart, Peeping, Dark Tower

Come, Mr. Frodo!' he cried. 'I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you and it as well. So up you get! Come on, Mr. Frodo dear! Sam will give you a ride. Just tell him where to go, and he'll go

- J. R. R. Tolkien

topic: Giving, Samwise Gamgee, Frodo, Lord Of The Ring, Frodo Baggins

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

- J. R. R. Tolkien

topic: Hope, Optimistic, Fighting, Lord Of The Ring, Positive Optimistic

Gandalf: Confound it all, Samwise Gamgee. Have you been eavesdropping? Sam: I ain't been droppin' no eaves sir, honest. I was just cutting the grass under the window there, if you'll follow me. Gandalf: A little late for trimming the verge, don't you think? Sam: I heard raised voices. Gandalf: What did you hear? Speak. Sam: N-nothing important. That is, I heard a good deal about a ring, and a Dark Lord, and something about the end of the world, but... Please, Mr. Gandalf, sir, don't hurt me. Don't turn me into anything... unnatural.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

topic: Hurt, Cutting, Dark, Lord Of The Ring, Eavesdropping

Still, I wonder if we shall ever be put into songs or tales. We're in one, of course; but I mean: put into words, you know, told by the fireside, or read out loud of a great big book with red and black letters, years and years afterwards. And people will say: 'Let's hear about Frodo and the Ring' and they'll say 'Oh yes, that's one of my favorite stories.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

topic: Song, Book, Mean, Big Book, Red And Black

Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

topic: Saying Goodbye, Years, Two, Farewell Love, Frodo Baggins

But I have been too deeply hurt, Sam. I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

topic: Hurt, Giving, May, Deeply Hurt, Frodo Baggins

It would be the death of you to come with me, Sam," said Frodo, "and I could not have borne that." "Not as certain as being left behind," said Sam. "But I am going to Mordor." "I know that well enough, Mr. Frodo. Of course you are. And I'm coming with you.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

topic: Would Be, Samwise Gamgee, Frodo, Frodo Baggins, Samwise

He drew a deep breath. 'Well, I'm back,' he said.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

topic: Said, Deep Breath, I'm Back, Samwise

Sam, clinging to Frodo's arm, collapsed on a step in the black darkness. 'Poor old Bill!' he said in a choking voice. 'Poor old Bill! Wolves and snakes! But the snakes were too much for him. I had to choose, Mr. Frodo. I had to come with you.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

source: J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.220, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Snakes, Voice, Darkness, Fellowship Of The Ring, Samwise