Michael Ende Quotes

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  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 a flash, according to how we spend it.

  Michael Ende

  Calendars, Littles, Eternity

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• 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 manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts ... Who knows what use they’ll make of you? Maybe you’ll help them to persuade people to buy things they don’t need, or hate things they know nothing about, or hold beliefs that make them easy to handle, or doubt the truths that might save them.

  Michael Ende

  Hate, Lying, People

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

  Michael Ende

  Beautiful, Wise, Eye

  "The Neverending Story" by Michael End, translated by Ralph Manheim, (Ch. II), 1983.

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• There are many kinds of joy, but they all lead to one: the joy to be loved.

  Michael Ende

  Joy, Kind

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• Every real story is a never ending story.

  Michael Ende

  Real, Stories, Never Ending Story

  "The Neverending Story". Book by Michael Ende, September 1, 1979.

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• 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 rather, you will retrace your steps through time, through all the days and nights, myths and years of your life, until you go out through the great, round, silver gate you entered by." What will I find on the other side?" The home of the music you've sometimes faintly heard in the distance, but by then you'll be part of it. You yourself will be a note in its mighty harmonies.

  Michael Ende

  Distance, Home, Heart

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

  Michael Ende

  Heart, Monotonous Life, Humans

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• 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?

  Michael Ende

  Dream, Remember, Never Ending Story

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• 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, bleaker and more monotonous. The ones who felt this most keenly were the children, because no one had time for them any more. But time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart. And the more people saved, the less they had.

  Michael Ende

  Children, Heart, Monotonous Life

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• 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 who could be replaced as easily as broken windowpanes, he would go and pour out his heart to Momo. And, even as he spoke, he would come to realize by some mysterious means that he was absolutely wrong: that there was only one person like himself in the whole world, and that, consequently, he mattered to the world in his own particular way. Such was Momo's talent for listening.

  Michael Ende

  Mean, Heart, People

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• Nothing is lost. . .Everything is transformed.

  Michael Ende

  Lost Everything, Lost, Transformed

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• 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 being able to love.

  Michael Ende

  Joy, World, Able

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• 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, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time. 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 a flash, according to how we spend it. Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.

  Michael Ende

  Heart, Thinking, Calendars

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• 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

  Names, Bores You, Laughing

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• All that matters in life," the grey man went on, "is to climb the ladder of success, amount to something, own things. When a person climbs higher than the rest, amounts to more, owns more things, everything else comes automatically: friendship, love, respect, et cetera..." "Isn't there anyone who loves you?" Momo whispered.

  Michael Ende

  Love You, Men, Friendship Love

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• Momo listened to everyone and everything - even to the rain and the wind and the pine trees - and all of them spoke to her after their own fashion.

  Michael Ende

  Fashion, Rain, Wind

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• 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 manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.

  Michael Ende

  Lying, Deceit, Manipulation

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

  Michael Ende

  Art, Thinking, Listening

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• Without a past you can't have a future.

  Michael Ende

  Past

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• 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 be anything left of us.

  Michael Ende

  Missing, Feels, Left

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

  Michael Ende

  Gone, May, Never Ending Story

  "The Neverending Story" by Michael End, translated by Ralph Manheim, (Ch. IV), 1983.

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• 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 are always the same, only the arrangement varies. From letters words are formed, from words sentences, from sentences chapters, and from chapters stories.

  Michael Ende

  Thinking, Twenties, Stories

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• 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 that could not have happened before and will never happen again. Few people know how to take advantage of these critical moments, unfortunately, and they often pass unnoticed. When someone does recognize them, however, great things happen in the world.

  Michael Ende

  Stars, Unique, People

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

  Michael Ende

  Past, Stories, Never Ending Story

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• Strange as it may seem, horror loses its power to frighten when repeated too often.

  Michael Ende

  May, Strange, Horror

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