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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

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
Sadness, Feelings, Cold
"The Brilliant Mind Behind Harry Potter". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. October 1, 2010.

Depression isn't just being a bit sad. It's feeling nothing. It's not wanting to be alive anymore.

J. K. Rowling
Depression, Feeling Down, Feelings

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
Memories, Feelings, Mind

George,” said Fred, “I think we’ve outgrown full-time education.” “Yeah, I’ve been feeling that way myself,” said George lightly.

J. K. Rowling
Thinking, Feelings, Funny Harry Potter

She was on edge, feeling that she might snap or cry at the smallest provocation.

J. K. Rowling
Feelings, Might, Cry
J.K. Rowling (2012). “The Casual Vacancy”, p.69, Hachette UK

Naturally Shirley had known, as they slid stock words and phrases back and forth between them like beads on an abacus, that Howard must be as brimful of ecstasy as she was; but to express these feelings out loud, when the news of death was still fresh in the air, would have been tantamount to dancing naked and shrieking obscenities, and Howard and Shirley were clothed, always, in an invisible layer of decorum that they never laid aside.

J. K. Rowling
Air, Dancing, Feelings

Parvati positively beamed. Harry could tell that she was feeling guilty for having laughed at Hermione in Transfiguration. He looked around and saw that Hermione was beaming back, if possible even more brightly. Girls were very strange sometimes.

J. K. Rowling
Girl, Feelings, Saws

There is no shame in what you are feeling, Harry,' said Dumbledore's voice. 'On the contrary... the fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength.

J. K. Rowling
Pain, Voice, Feelings

By the time she had interpreted Harry's dreams at the top of her voice (all of which, even the ones that involved eating porridge, apparently foretold a gruesome and early death), he was feeling much less sympathetic toward her.

J. K. Rowling
Dream, Voice, Feelings

The silence was unbearable to him. If the pictures could have reflected the feelings inside him, they would have been screaming in pain.

J. K. Rowling
Pain, Silence, Feelings

Go on, have a pasty," said Harry, who had never had anything to share before or, indeed, anyone to share it with. It was a nice feeling, sitting there with Ron, eating their way through all Harry's pasties, cakes, and candies (the sandwiches lay forgotten).

J. K. Rowling
Nice, Cake, Feelings

I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind. “At these times, I use the Pensieve. One simply siphons the excess thoughts from one’s mind, pours them into the basin, and examines them at one’s leisure. It becomes easier to spot patterns and links, you understand, when they are in this form.

J. K. Rowling
Memories, Focus, Feelings

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