Because when I feel the human world is doomed, has doomed itself by its own mingy beastliness, then I feel the Colonies aren't far enough. The moon wouldn't be far enough, because even there you could look back and see the earth, dirty, beastly, unsavoury among all the stars: made foul by men.

And, one day when she came, she found two brown hens sitting alert and fierce in the coops, sitting on pheasants' eggs, and fluffed out so proud and deep in all the heat of the pondering female blood. This almost broke Connie's heart. She, herself, was so forlorn and unused, not a female at all, just a mere thing of terrors.

He was not afraid of himself. But he was quite consciously afraid of society, which he knew by instinct to be a malevolent, partly-insane beast.

Albus Dumbledore was never proud or vain; he could find something to value in anyone, however apparently insignificant or wretched, and I believe that his early losses endowed him with great humanity and sympathy.

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

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

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 trust upon them, and take up the task because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.

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

It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.

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

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

'the truth.' Dumbledore sighed. 'it is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should be therefor be treated with great caution ... '

"Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them." Albus Dumbledore.

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