50 quotes
“Human efforts to avoid or overcome death are always doomed to disappointment.”
"Prof McGonagall : ... bravery doesn't forgive stupidity. ..."
on Courage
"What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did."
on Life
"The best of us must sometimes eat our words."
on Wisdom
"Understanding was coming so fast, it seemed to bypass thought."
on Philosophy
"As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.I wish you all very good lives."
"He must have known I'd want to leave you.""No, he must have known you would always want to come back."
on Love
"Tut, tut — fame clearly isn't everything."
on Truth
"Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?”"...I think the answer is that a circle has no beginning.""Well reasoned."
"When in doubt go the library"
"You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity."
"There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it."
on Power
"Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy."
on Happiness
"To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever."
"Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe."
"Here lies Dobby, a free elf."
on Freedom
"The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death."
on Death
"I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid."
on Fear
"Whenever he was in company he wanted to get away, and whenever he was alone he wanted company."
"We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving."
on Human Rights
"What you fear most of all is —fear. Very wise..."