40+ Dumbledore Quotes About Life and Death for All Potterheads out There!

"It is my belief that the truth is generally preferable to lies."

"We must all face the choice between what is right, and what is easy."

"Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it."

"Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it."

"The best of us sometimes eat our words."

"This pain is part of being human . . . the fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength."

"As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all — the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them."

"While we may come from different places and speak in different tongues, our hearts beat as one."

"Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?"

"It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it."

"Let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure."

"For in dreams, we enter a world that is entirely our own. Let them swim in the deepest ocean or glide over the highest cloud."

“You fail to recognise that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!”

"The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with caution."

"We must try not to sink beneath our anguish . . . but battle on."

"Youth can not know how age thinks and feels, but old men are guilty if they forget what it is to be young."

"Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light."

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."

"We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided."

"Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open."

"You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?"

"Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living and above all, those who live without love."

"It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness. Nothing more."

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

"Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect."

"Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery."

"You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it."

"Love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever."

"She had made her "g's" the same way he did: he searched the letter for every one of them, and each felt like a friendly little wave glimpsed from behind a veil. The letter was an incredible treasure, proof that Lily Potter had lived, really lived, that her warm hand had once moved across this parchment, tracing into these letters, words about him, Harry, her son."

"Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a stricken lament of terrible beauty. And Harry felt, as he had felt about phoenix song before, that the music was inside him, not without: It was his own grief turned magically to song."