Top 500 J.K. Rowling Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.”

— J.K. Rowling

52. “What’s most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty.”

— J.K. Rowling

53. “Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.”

— J.K. Rowling

54. “I was set free, because my greatest fear had already been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”

— J.K. Rowling

55. “We can’t choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.”

— J.K. Rowling

56. “No story lives unless someone wants to listen. So thank you, all of you.”

— J.K. Rowling

57. “The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.”

— J.K. Rowling

58. “Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”

— J.K. Rowling

59. “I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind.”

— J.K. Rowling

60. “There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.”

— J.K. Rowling

61. “Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves it’s own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.”

— J.K. Rowling

62. “The ministry has fallen. Scrimgeour is dead. They are coming.”

— J.K. Rowling

63. “Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.”

— J.K. Rowling

64. “Being different isn’t a bad thing. It means you’re brave enough to be yourself – Luna Lovegood.”

— J.K. Rowling

65. “I hope you’re pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed – or worse, expelled. Now if you don’t mind, I’m going to bed.”

— J.K. Rowling

66. “Merlin’s beard.”

— J.K. Rowling

67. “You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death. He accepts that be must die, and understands that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying.”

— J.K. Rowling

68. “Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I’ve met people who don’t want to try for fear of failing.”

— J.K. Rowling

69. “It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.”

— J.K. Rowling

70. “Fools who wear their hearts proudly on their sleeves, who cannot control their emotions, who wallow in sad memories and allow themselves to be provoked this easily – weak people, in other words...”

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

72. “Of all the trees we could’ve hit, we had to get one that hits back.”

— J.K. Rowling

73. “Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.”

— J.K. Rowling

74. “I don’t need a cloak to become invisible.”

— J.K. Rowling

75. “Nothing more or less than the deepest, most desperate desire of our hearts.”

— J.K. Rowling

76. “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...”

— J.K. Rowling

77. “The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by an invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing.”

— J.K. Rowling

78. “Dumbledore would have been happier than anybody to think that there was a little more love in the world.”

— J.K. Rowling

79. “His eyes are as green as a fresh pickled toad, His hair is as dark as a blackboard. I wish he was mine, he’s really divine, The hero who conquered the Dark Lord.”

— J.K. Rowling

80. “What is life without a little risk?” -Sirius Black.”

— J.K. Rowling

81. “Twilight fell: The sky turned to a light, dusky purple littered with tiny silver stars.”

— J.K. Rowling

82. “You will find that I will only truly have left this school when none here are loyal to me.”

— J.K. Rowling

83. “Depression isn’t just being a bit sad. It’s feeling nothing. It’s not wanting to be alive anymore.”

— J.K. Rowling

84. “Tut, tut – fame clearly isn’t everything.”

— J.K. Rowling

85. “Always the innocent are the first victims, so it has been for ages past, so it is now.”

— J.K. Rowling

86. “Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.”

— J.K. Rowling

87. “Holey? You have the the whole world of ear-related humor before you, you go for holey?”

— J.K. Rowling

88. “Cinderella? Snow White? What’s that? An illness?”

— J.K. Rowling

89. “Snape’s patronus was a doe,? said Harry, ’the same as my mother’s because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they were children.”

— J.K. Rowling

90. “Really Hagrid, if you are holding out for universal popularity, I’m afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.”

— J.K. Rowling

91. “I enjoyed the meetings, too. It was like having friends.”

— J.K. Rowling

92. “Power was my weakness and my temptation.”

— J.K. Rowling

93. “It’s so difficult to describe depression to someone who’s never been there, because it’s not sadness. I know sadness. Sadness is to cry and to feel. But it’s that cold absence of feeling – that really hollowed-out feeling.”

— J.K. Rowling

94. “Once again you’ve put your keen and penetrating mind to the task and as usual come to the wrong conclusion!”

— J.K. Rowling

95. “Snape was looking as though the first person to ask him for a Love Potion would be force-fed poison.”

— J.K. Rowling

96. “Because to confide a part of your soul to something that can think and move for itself is obviously a very risky business.”

— J.K. Rowling

97. “Or perhaps in Slytherin, you’ll make your real friends. Those cunning folk use any means to achieve their ends.”

— J.K. Rowling

98. “Only the difference between truth and lies, courage and cowardice.”

— J.K. Rowling

99. “Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”

— J.K. Rowling

100. “Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.”

— J.K. Rowling