Would it hurt to die? All those times he had thought it was about to happen and escaped, he had never really thought of the thing itself: his will to live had always been so much stronger than his fear of death.
Human efforts to avoid or overcome death are always doomed to disappointment.
Snape raised his wand and pointed it directly at Dumbledore.Avada Kedavra!
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.
Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.
Only one thing mattered: this was not a Horcrux. Dumbledore had weakened himself by drinking that horrible potion for nothing. Harry crumpled the parchment in his hand and his eyes burned with tears as behind him Fang began to howl.
Yes, alive,” said Fudge. “That is — I don’t know — is a man alive if he can’t be killed? I don’t really understand it, and Dumbledore won’t explain properly — but anyway, he’s certainly got a body and is walking and talking and killing, so I suppose, for the purposes of our discussion, yes, he’s alive.
Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.
To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.
There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.