Michael Ende

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

— Michael Ende

Without a past you can't have a future.

— Michael Ende

Nothing is lost. . .Everything is transformed.

— Michael Ende

Just as the setting sun turned the clouds to liquid gold.

— Michael Ende

“They look like good, strong hands.”

— Michael Ende

Every real story is a never ending story.

— Michael Ende

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

— Michael Ende

“When you know as much as we do, nothing matters.”

— Michael Ende

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

— Michael Ende

All the beasts in Howling Forest were safe in their caves, nests, and burrows.

— Michael Ende

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

— Michael Ende

Those who still think listening isn't an art should see if they can do it half as well.

— Michael Ende

A story can be new and yet tell about olden times. The past comes into existence with the story.

— Michael Ende

What I've started I must finish. I've gone too far to turn back. Regardless of what may happen, I have to go…

— Michael Ende

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

— Michael Ende

Those who still think that listening isn’t an art should see if they can do it half as well.

— 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

She would sit by herself in the middle of the old stoe amphitheatre, with the sky's starry vault overhead, and simply listen…

— Michael Ende

Momo listened to everyone and everything - even to the rain and the wind and the pine trees - and all of…

— Michael Ende

There were thousands and thousands of forms of joy in the world, but that all were essentially one and the same, namely,…

— 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

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

— Michael Ende

To be wise was to be above joy and sorrow, fear and pity, ambition and humiliation. It was to hate nothing and…

— 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

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

— Michael Ende

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

— 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

As they advanced (towards the fountain) one after another of Bastian's Fastastican gifts fell away from him. The strong, handsome, fearless hero…

— Michael Ende

“All the games were selected for them by supervisors and had to have some useful, educational purpose. The children learned these new…

— Michael Ende

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

— Michael Ende

Once someone dreams a dream, it can't just drop out of existence. But if the dreamer can't remember it, what becomes of…

— Michael Ende

“She felt as if she were imprisoned in a vault heaped with priceless treasures - an ever-growing hoard that threatened to crush…

— Michael Ende

“Bastian looked at the book. 'I wonder,' he said to himself, 'what's in a book while it's closed. Oh, I know it's…

— Michael Ende

“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…

— 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

“If you have never spent whole afternoons with burning ears and rumpled hair, forgetting the world around you over a book, forgetting…

— 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

“Reluctantly Bastian's thoughts turned back to reality. He was glad the Neverending Story had nothing to do with that. He didn't like…

— Michael Ende

“...it's like this. Sometimes, when you've a very long street ahead of you, you think how terribly long it is and feel…

— Michael Ende

“When your turn comes to jump into the Nothing, you too will be a nameless servant of power, with no will of…

— Michael Ende