J. K. Rowling Quotes

Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.

But now I know that there is no killing A thing like Love, for it laughs at Death. There is no hushing, there is no stilling That which is part of your life and breath. You may bury it deep, and leave behind you The land, the people that knew your slain; It will push the sods from its grave, and find you On wastes of water or desert plain.

We shall live even in this state of living death, we shall love, we shall feel, we shall defy all who would judge and destroy us.

I have a love in my life. It makes me stronger than anything you can imagine.

If the house of the world is dark, Love will find a way to create windows.

On the other side of pain, there is still love.

Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying.

Often I wish this would all be over, Liesel, but then somehow you do something like walk down the basement steps with a snowman in your hands.

Your heart is the size of your fist; keep loving, keep fighting.

He was too tough to experience disappointments and resentments - negative affections. In this nihilist fin de siècle, he was affirmation. Right through to illness and death. Why did I speak of him in the past? He laughed, he is laughing, he is here. It's your sadness, idiot, he'd say.

I will survive For as long as I know how to love, I know I'll stay alive.

Through the shake of an earthquake I will never fall. That’s how strong my love is.

Unwearied, and with springing steps elate, I had conveyed my wealth along the road. The empty sack proved now a heavier load: I was borne down beneath its worthless weight. I stumbled on, and knocked at Death's dark gate. There was no answer. Stung by sorrow's goad I forced my way into that grim abode, And laughed, and flung Life's empty sack to Fate.

Even when love isn't enough...somehow it is.

Love will subsist on wonderfully little hope but not altogether without it.

I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.

To accept struggle as part of life, to accept all of it, even the darkest moments of anguish; to be motivated by love rather than fear, by confidence rather than insecurity: these are the benchmarks of high self-esteem. The wish to avoid fear and pain is not the motive that drives the lives of highly evolved men and women; rather, it is the life force within them, thrusting toward its unique form of expression-the actualization of personal values.

Do you have the courage for it? Do you have the love? If you have enough of one, you will develop the other.

Don't be scared to dream big, and don't be afraid to be close to people. And never give up! It's the tenacious not the talented that win.

Sail forth into the sea of life, O gentle, loving, trusting wife, And safe from all adversity Upon the bosom of that sea Thy comings and thy goings be! For gentleness and love and trust Prevail o'er angry wave and gust; And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives.

It's okay to doubt yourself, it's okay to feel down; just never give up.

Broken hearts healed. Maybe the cracks were always there, like thin scars, but they healed. People lived and worked, laughed and ate, walked and talked with those cracks For many, even the scars healed and they loved again.

Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you. Seal my ears, I'll go on hearing you. And without feet I can make my way to you, without a mouth I can swear your name. Break off my arms, I'll take hold of you with my heart as with a hand. Stop my heart, and my brain will start to beat. And if you consume my brain with fire, I'll feel you burn in every drop of my blood.

The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man says.