Michael Ende Quotes
Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.
You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, foolish and wise.
There are many kinds of joy, but they all lead to one: the joy to be loved.
Once someone dreams a dream, it can't just drop out of existence. But if the dreamer can't remember it, what becomes of it?
A story can be new and yet tell about olden times. The past comes into existence with the story.
There were thousands and thousands of forms of joy in the world, but that all were essentially one and the same, namely, the joy of being able to love.
Wishes cannot be summoned up or kept away at will. They come from deeper within us than good or bad intentions. And they spring up unannounced.
Momo listened to everyone and everything - even to the rain and the wind and the pine trees - and all of them spoke to her after their own fashion.
What I've started I must finish. I've gone too far to turn back. Regardless of what may happen, I have to go forward.
You don't feel a thing. There's just something missing. And once it gets hold of you, something more is missing every day. Soon there won't be anything left of us.
To be wise was to be above joy and sorrow, fear and pity, ambition and humiliation. It was to hate nothing and to love nothing, and above all to be utterly indifferent to the love and hate of others.
People? People have been obsolete for years, They've made the world a place where there's no room left for their own kind.
Those who still think that listening isn’t an art should see if they can do it half as well.
Maybe all the people who say ghosts don't exist are just afraid to admit that they do.
Only the right name gives beings and things their reality. A wrong name makes everything unreal. That's what lies do.
Human passions have mysterious ways, in children as well as grown-ups. Those affected by them can't explain them, and those who haven't known them have no understanding of them at all.
For a while Bastian stood motionless. He was so stunned by what he had just heard that he couldn't decide what to do... What he had hoped was his ruin and what he had feared his salvation.
The Glory was entrusted to you, you weren't given permission to pass it on as you see fit.
Todo o reino de Fantasia assenta-se sobre alicerces de sonhos esquecidos." A História Sem Fim(The whole kingdom of Fantasy sits upon foundations of forgotten dreams - Endless Story).
With them the individual counted for nothing. No one was irreplaceable, because they drew no distinction between one man and another... In this community there was harmony, but no love.
Atreyu was fighting not for himself, but for his friend, whom he was trying to save by defeating him.
In his opinion, all the world’s misfortunes stemmed from the countless untruths, both deliberate and unintentional, which people told because of haste or carelessness.
Even when I was caught in the web, I didn't give up hope. And as you see, I was right.
... Without memory how will you ever find your way back to where you came from?
When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated.
The human world is full of weak-minded people, who think they're as clever as can be and are convinced that it's terribly important to persuade even the children that Fanstastica doesn't exist.
... Up until then he had always wanted to be someone other than he was, but he didn't want to change.
It was a wonderful feeling, a sense of release and boundless freedom that he had never known before. He was beyond the reach of all the things that had weighed him down and hemmed him in.
What he had hoped for was his ruin and what he had feared his salvation.