Books Quote by Michael Ende

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

— Michael Ende

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

— Michael Ende

He had been through a good deal in the course of the Great Quest — he had seen beautiful things and horrible things —…

— Michael Ende

There were doors that looked like large keyholes, others that resembled the entrances to caves, there were golden doors, some were padded and some…

— Michael Ende

“Hasta entonces, todo había sido para él como un gran juego. Se lo había tomado tan en serio como se tomaba cualquier juego y…

— 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 it? It…

— Michael Ende

“And there in the snow lay the pictures, like jewels bedded in white silk. They were paper-thin sheets of colored transparent isin glass 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, the joy…

— Michael Ende

“A person’s reason for doing someone a good turn matters as much as the good turn itself.”

— 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 became the…

— Michael Ende

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.…

— Michael Ende

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…

— Michael Ende