Michael Ende Quotes

“There are many kinds of joy, but they all lead to one: the joy to be loved.”
― Michael Ende, The Neverending Story

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

“Porque el tiempo es vida, y la vida reside en el corazón. Y cuanto más ahorraba de esto la gente, menos tenía.”
― Michael Ende, Momo

“He tried to remember Moon Child's eyes, but was no longer able to. He was sure of only one thing: that her glance had passed through his eyes and down into his heart. He could still feel the burning trail it had left behind. That glance, he felt, was embedded in his heart, and there it glittered like a mysterious jewel. And in a strange and wonderful way it hurt.
Even if Bastian had wanted to, he couldn't have defended himself against this thing that had happened to him. However, he didn't want to. Oh no, not for anything in the world would he have parted with that jewel. All he wanted was to go on reading, to see Moon Child again, to be with her.
IT never occurred to him that he was getting into the most unusual and perhaps the most dangerous of adventures. But even if he had known this, he wouldn't have dreamed of shutting the book.”
― Michael Ende, The Neverending Story

“İnsanlar kendilerini korkutan şeylere çok daha çabuk inanıyorlar. Bu da bir bilmece.”
― Michael Ende, Momo

“(...) Y la alegría lo llenó de la cabeza a los pies, alegría de vivir y alegría de ser él mismo. Porque ahora sabía otra vez quién era y de dónde era. Había nacido de nuevo. Y lo mejor era que quería ser precisamente quien era. Si hubiera tenido que elegir una posibilidad entre todas, no hubiera elegido ninguna otra. Porque ahora sabía: en el mundo hay miles y miles de formas de alegría, pero en el fondo todas son una sola: la alegría de poder amar. Eran aspectos de una misma cosa.”
― Michael Ende, The Neverending Story

“Te voy a dar un consejo: No te tomes tan en serio a ti mismo. En el fondo, tú no importas.”
― Michael Ende, Momo

“Wenn die Menschen wüssten, was der Tod ist, dann hätten sie keine Angst mehr vor ihm. Und wenn sie keine Angst mehr hätten, könnte keiner ihnen ihre Lebenszeit stehlen.”
― Michael Ende, Momo

“Hay muchas clases de soledad, pero Momo vivía una que muy pocos hombres conocen, y menos con tanta fuerza.
Le parecía estar encerrada en una caverna rodeada de riquezas incontables que se hacían cada vez más y mayores y amenazaban asfixiarla. Y no había salida. Nadie podía llegar hasta ella y ella no se podía hacer notar a nadie, tan aplastada estaba bajo una montaña de tiempo.
Incluso llegaron horas en que deseaba no haber oído nunca la música ni haber visto los colores. No obstante, si la hubiesen dado a elegir, no habría renunciado a ese recuerdo por nada del mundo. Aunque se hubiera muerto por ello. Pues eso era lo que vivía ahora: que hay riquezas que lo matan a uno si no puede compartirlas.”
― Michael Ende

“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 yourself and the world in general. Then even that feeling wears off, and you don't feel anything anymore. You become completely indifferent to what goes on around you. You forget how to laugh and cry - you're cold inside and incapable of loving anything or anyone. There's no going back. The disease has a name. It's called deadly tedium.”
― Michael Ende

“Günlük yaşam içinde çok büyük bir sır vardır. Herkesin bunda bir payı bulunur ve herkes onu bilir, ama pek az kimse bu konuya kafa yorar. Çoğu kimse onu olduğu gibi benimser ve ona asla şaşırmaz. Bu büyük sır zamandır.”
― Michael Ende, Momo

“Michael Andreas Helmuth Ende
Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Love of life lives forever”
― Petra Hermans

“Grau ist dein schöner Mantel geworden, fuhr sie nach einer kleinen Stille fort, grau dein Haar und deine Haut wie Stein. Aber alles soll nun wieder werden wie früher und noch schöner. Du wirst sehen. M. Ende, Seite 185”
― Petra Hermans

“A smile smiles behind the light, dark and shades of my story, a shadow cannot be spoken.”
― Petra Hermans

“I do not know, if he once asked me, to be welcome.”
― Petra Hermans