Michael Ende

“They look like good, strong hands.”

— Michael Ende

Bastian had climbed a dune of purplish-red sand and all around him he saw nothing but hill after hill of every imaginable…

— Michael Ende

“It's asking us our names," Falkor reported. "I'm Atreyu!" Atreyu cried. "I'm Falkor!" cried Falkor. The boy without a name was silent.…

— Michael Ende

No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a…

— Michael Ende

What will happen when my heart stops beating?" Momo asked. When that moment comes," said the professor, "time will stop for you…

— Michael Ende

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

— Michael Ende

“Her feelings of fear and helplessness had reached such a pitch that they were suddenly transformed into their opposites. Having overcome them,…

— Michael Ende

If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave…

— Michael Ende

Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second…

— Michael Ende

Strange as it may seem, horror loses its power to frighten when repeated too often.

— Michael Ende

“He had never been willing to believe that life had to be as gray and dull as people claimed. He heard them…

— Michael Ende

“But there was another thing Momo couldn't quite understand - a thing that hadn't happened until very recently. More and more often…

— Michael Ende

When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And…

— Michael Ende

“...little creatures they were who seemed to have been blown from glass.”

— Michael Ende

“That brings me to the real reason for the title: Where does that which happens during reading a book take place? (...)…

— Michael Ende

Nothing can happen more than once, but everything must happen one day; Over hill and dale, wood and stream, my dying voice…

— Michael Ende

Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.

— Michael Ende

“Para ellos no puede cambiar nada, porque ellos mismos no pueden ya cambiar.”

— Michael Ende

“Now, for the first time ever, a story had escaped his control. It had taken on a life of its own, and…

— Michael Ende

“I did everything wrong," he said. "I misunderstood everything. Moon Child gave me so much, and all I did with it was…

— Michael Ende

“All the world's misfortunes stemmed from the countless untruths, both deliberate and unintentional, which people told because of haste or carelessness.”

— Michael Ende

There are many kinds of delusion.

— Michael Ende

“In his opinion, all the world’s misfortunes stemmed from the countless untruths, both deliberate and unintentional, which people told because of haste…

— Michael Ende

Wishes cannot be summoned up or kept away at will. They come from deeper within us than good or bad intentions. And…

— Michael Ende