Words worth keeping

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.

I DON'T CARE!" Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE!""You do care," said Dumbledore. He had not flinched or made a single move to stop Harry demolishing his office. His expression was calm, almost detached. "You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.

It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.

Death's got an Invisibility Cloak?" Harry interrupted again."So he can sneak up on people," said Ron. "Sometimes he gets bored of running at them, flapping his arms and shrieking...

It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

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.

I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.