Michael Ende Quotes

When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see,...

Even when I was caught in the web, I didn't give up hope. And as you see, I was right.

The Glory was entrusted to you, you weren't given permission to pass it on as you see fit.

What do you suppose it means?'[Bastian] asked. ""DO WHAT YOU WISH.'" That must mean I can do anythin...

It's asking us our names," Falkor reported."I'm Atreyu!" Atreyu cried."I'm Falkor!" cried Falkor.The...

There are people who can never go to Fantastica," said Mr. Coreander, "and others who can, but who s...

You must live your story.

He's a good old sort. If only he weren't plumb crazy!

He had never been willing to believe that life had to be as gray and dull as people claimed. He hear...

Atreyu was fighting not for himself, but for his friend, whom he was trying to save by defeating him...

It was a wonderful feeling, a sense of release and boundless freedom that he had never known before....

When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see,...

What he had hoped for was his ruin and what he had feared his salvation.

The human world is full of weak-minded people, who think they're as clever as can be and are convinc...

He was handsome and strong, but somehow that wasn't enough for him. He also felt the need to be toug...

Maybe all the people who say ghosts don't exist are just afraid to admit that they do.

... Without memory how will you ever find your way back to where you came from?

When you know as much as we do, nothing matters. Things just repeat. Day and night, summer and winte...

There are many kinds of joy, but they all lead to one: the joy to be loved.

You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and evil, beautiful an...

... Up until then he had always wanted to be someone other than he was, but he didn't want to change...

With them the individual counted for nothing. No one was irreplaceable, because they drew no distinc...

Momo would have been delighted, except that most of the newcomers had no idea how to play. All they ...

While progressing in this way, with a dirty street ahead of him and a clean one behind, he often had...

In his opinion, all the world’s misfortunes stemmed from the countless untruths, both deliberate and...

...it's like this. Sometimes, when you've a very long street ahead of you, you think how terribly lo...

All the games were selected for them by supervisors and had to have some useful, educational purpose...

The men in grey were powerless to meet this challenge head-on. Unable to detach the children from Mo...

Her feelings of fear and helplessness had reached such a pitch that they were suddenly transformed i...

People never seemed to notice that, by saving time, they were losing something else. No one cared to...

Nothing is lost. . .Everything is transformed.

Man kann davon überzeugt sein, sich etwas zu wünschen - vielleicht jahrelang - solang man weiß, dass...

What you don't wish for will always be beyond your reach.

Nothing can change for them, because they themselves can't change anymore.

No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that wou...

When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see,...

One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door,...

Todo o reino de Fantasia assenta-se sobre alicerces de sonhos esquecidos." A História Sem Fim(The wh...