Quotes by Michael Ende

Michael Ende

And if someone felt that his life had been an utter failure, and that he himself was only one among millions of wholly unimportant people who could be replaced as easily as broken windowpanes, he would go and pour out his heart to Momo. And, even as he spoke, he would come to realize by some mysterious means that he was absolutely wrong: that there was only one person like himself in the whole world, and that, consequently, he mattered to the world in his own particular way. Such was Momo’s talent for listening.

Heart

Mean

People

As they advanced (towards the fountain) one after another of Bastian’s Fastastican gifts fell away from him. The strong, handsome, fearless hero became the small, fat, timid boy. (…) But then he jumped into the crystal-clear water… He drank till his thrist was quenched. And joy filled him from head to foot, the joy of living and the joy of being himself. He was new born. And the best part of it was that he was now the very person he wanted to be. If he had been free to choose, he would have chosen to be no one else.

Boys

Hero

Strong

But that is another story and shall be told another time.

Another Time

Never Ending Story

Stories

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.

Calendars

Eternity

Littles

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.

Heard

Ruins

Salvation

He had been through a good deal in the course of the Great Quest — he had seen beautiful things and horrible things — but up until now he had not known that one and the same creature can be both, that beauty can be terrifying.

Beautiful

Horrible

Quests

I wonder, what’s in a book while it’s closed. Oh, I know it’s full of letters printed on paper, but all the same, something must be happening, because as soon as I open it, there’s a whole story with people I don’t know yet and all kinds of adventures, deeds and battles. And sometimes there are storms at sea, or it takes you to strange cities and countries. All those things are somehow shut in a book. Of course you have to read it to find out. But it’s already there, that’s the funny thing. I just wish I knew how it could be.

Adventure

Book

Country

If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters with whom you have shared so many adventures, whom you have loved and admired, for whom you have hoped and feared, and without whose company life seems empty and meaningless. If such things have not been part of your own experience, you probably won’t understand what Bastian did next.

Adventure

Character

Tears

If you stop to think about it, you’ll have to admit that all the stories in the world consist essentially of twenty-six letters. The letters are always the same, only the arrangement varies. From letters words are formed, from words sentences, from sentences chapters, and from chapters stories.

Stories

Thinking

Twenties

Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time.

Corny

Mystery

Thinking

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Adventure

Another Time

Art

Beautiful

Blow

Book

Bores You

Boys

Calendars

Character

Children

Corny

Country

Design

Distance

Doors

Dying

Eternity

Fashion

Feels

Form

Giants

Gone

Hate

Heard

Heart

Hero

Home

Horrible

Horror

House

Laughing

Left

Listening

Littles

Lying

May

Mean

Missing

Mystery

Names

Never Ending Story

Numbers

People

Quests

Rain

Ruins

Salvation

Sleep

Spring

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Quotes by Michael Ende

Michael Ende

But that is another story and shall be told another time.

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.

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.

He had been through a good deal in the course of the Great Quest — he had seen beautiful things and horrible things — but up until now he had not known that one and the same creature can be both, that beauty can be terrifying.

If you stop to think about it, you’ll have to admit that all the stories in the world consist essentially of twenty-six letters. The letters are always the same, only the arrangement varies. From letters words are formed, from words sentences, from sentences chapters, and from chapters stories.

Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time.

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