J. K. Rowling Quotes

The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and yet lived but a little.

Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths.

Life, when is spent well, is long.

You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live.

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

It's really not a question of how long you have on this earth; it's about what you do with it.

A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant.

It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.

A good life is a main argument.

You cannot judge the value of a life by its length.

How much of our lives could we buy back if we cherished our lives instead of our trinkets?

The most important thing is to live a fabulous life. As long as it's fabulous I don't care how long it is.

The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.

Is there life before death? - that is the question!

It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.

Life is long if you know how to use it.

A long life is a life well spent.

How long does it take your soul to realize that your life is full? The slower the living, the greater the sense of fullness and satisfaction.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.

Life, if thou knowest how to use it, is long enough.

Was his life nothing? Had he nothing to show, no work? He did not count his work, anyone could have done it. What had he known, but the long, marital embrace with his wife. Curious, that this was what his life amounted to! At any rate, it was something, it was eternal. He would say so to anybody, and be proud of it. He lay with his wife in his arms, and she was still his fulfillment, just the same as ever. And that was the be-all and the end-all. Yes, and he was proud of it.

I know many lives worth living.

You can't say life is useless because it ends in the grave.

The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.

A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.