Michael Ende Quotes

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• You see, Momo... it's like this. Sometimes, when you've a very long street ahead of you, you think how terribly long it is and feel…
• 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…
• What will happen when my heart stops beating?" Momo asked. When that moment comes," said the professor, "time will stop for you as well. Or…
• The Nothing is spreading," groaned the first. "It's growing and growing, there's more of it every day, if it's possible to speak of more nothing.…
• 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…
• You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, foolish and wise.
• He had been through a good deal in the course of the Great Quest — he had seen beautiful things and horrible things — but…
• Strange as it may seem, horror loses its power to frighten when repeated too often.
• There are many kinds of delusion.
• A story can be new and yet tell about olden times. The past comes into existence with the story.
• My will can control anything that’s empty.
• 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…
• 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…
• Nothing is lost. . .Everything is transformed.
• 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…
• Every real story is a never ending story.
• But that is another story and shall be told another time.
• He wanted to be loved for being just what he was. In this community of Yskalnari there was harmony, but no love. He no longer…
• 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…
• 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,…

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