44 Magical J.K. Rowling Quotes

J.K. Rowling is a household name thanks to her incredibly magically written Harry Potter books that the whole world fell in love with. These books have gained worldwide attention, won multiple awards, sold more than 400 million copies and have become the best-selling book series in history!

J.K. Rowling has an amazing story. She was a normal everyday Woman who came up with an amazing idea while she was waiting for a delayed train from Manchester to London in 1990. This story evolved in to a 7 book series, gaining Rowling’s multi-millionaire status within five years, U.K’s best-selling author with sales in excess of £238m, one of the richest Women in the World, and named the most Influential Woman in Britain, yet she is completely humble and continues with her passion write novels for people to enjoy all over the world.

We have sifted through and hand picked only the BEST, Magical and Inspiring J.K. Rowling Quotes for you below and we hope you can take some of the magic and find a place for it in your life.

44 Magical J.K Rowling Quotes

 

“If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
– J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
– J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
– J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone)

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
– J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone)

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.”
– J.K. Rowling

“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
– J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone)

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
– J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
– J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”
– J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

“Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.”
– J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

“Wit beyond measure is a man’s greatest treasure.”
– J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

“We’re all human, aren’t we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.”
– J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

“We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.”
– J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

“It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.”
– J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

“I don’t go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.”
– J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)

“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
– J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

“Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.”
– J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

“Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.”
– J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

“Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.”
– J.K. Rowling

“Is ‘fat’ really the worst thing a human being can be? Is ‘fat’ worse than ‘vindictive’, ‘jealous’, ‘shallow’, ‘vain’, ‘boring’ or ‘cruel’? Not to me.”
– J.K. Rowling

“He must have known I’d want to leave you.”
“No, he must have known you would always want to come back.”
– J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

“Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”
– J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone)

“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.”
– J.K. Rowling

“Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.”
– J.K. Rowling  (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

“Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.”
– J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

“There’s always room for a story that can transport people to another place.”
– J.K. Rowling

“To hurt is as human as to breathe.”
– J.K. Rowling (The Tales of Beedle the Bard)

“Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.”
– J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

“You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think that we don’t recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?”
– J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)

“Ah, music,” he said, wiping his eyes. “A magic beyond all we do here!”
– J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone)

“There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.”
– J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone)

“Time will not slow down when something unpleasant lies ahead.”
– J.K. Rowling(Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

“It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.”
– J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

“The best of us must sometimes eat our words.”
– J.K. Rowling

“When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.”
– J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

“I mean, you could claim that anything’s real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody’s proved it doesn’t exist!”
– J.K. Rowling

“Don’t let the muggles get you down.”
– J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)

“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

“There’s nothing better when something comes and hits you and you think ‘YES’!”
– J.K. Rowling

“As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
I wish you all very good lives.”
– J.K. Rowling

“The mind is a complex and many-layered thing
– J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

“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

“The only way out is through.”
– J.K. Rowling

“Curiosity is not a sin…. But we should exercise caution with our curiosity… yes, indeed.”
– J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

 

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