Michael Ende Quotes

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• No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of…
• Those who still think that listening isn’t an art should see if they can do it half as well.
• At certain junctures in the course of existence, unique moments occur when everyone and everything, even the most distant stars, combine to bring about something…
• People? People have been obsolete for years, They've made the world a place where there's no room left for their own kind.
• One day, you don't feel like doing anything. Nothing interests you, everything bores you. Feel more and more empty inside, more and more dissatisfied with…
• One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or the brothel door. There is…
• 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…
• 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…
• Momo listened to everyone and everything - even to the rain and the wind and the pine trees - and all of them spoke to…
• 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,…
• Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.
• 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…
• Just as the setting sun turned the clouds to liquid gold.
• Bastian had climbed a dune of purplish-red sand and all around him he saw nothing but hill after hill of every imaginable color. Each hill…
• There were doors that looked like large keyholes, others that resembled the entrances to caves, there were golden doors, some were padded and some were…
• 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? It lives…
• People never seemed to notice that, by saving time, they were losing something else. No one cared to admit that life was becoming ever poorer,…
• 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…
• Nothing can happen more than once, but everything must happen one day; Over hill and dale, wood and stream, my dying voice will blow away.…
• You wish for something, you've wanted it for years, and you're sure you want it, as long as you know you can't have it. But…

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