Michael EndePeople 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 one… ▶372HumanityLifeLove
Michael EndeNo architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper an… ▶366HumanityTime
Michael EndeMomo 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.312Death
Michael EndeFor 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 had hoped was his ruin and what he had feared his s… ▶357Hope
Michael EndeLots of things take time, and time was Momo's only form of wealth. ✨ Momo. Book by Michael Ende, 1973.357ReadingTime
Michael EndeOnce someone dreams a dream, it can't just drop out of existence. But if the dreamer can't remember it, what becomes of it?281Life
Michael EndeTime is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.305HumanityLifeLove
Michael EndeNothing can happen more than once, but everything must happen one day; Over hill and dale, wood and stream, my dying voice will blow away. . .338Death
Michael EndeIf you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters with whom you have shared so many adventures, whom … ▶338HopeLifeLove
Michael EndeStrange as it may seem, horror loses its power to frighten when repeated too often.305Politics
Michael EndeHuman 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 no understanding of them at… ▶261HumanityLove
Michael EndeOnce 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 lives on in Fantastica, deep under earth. There are … ▶3410Life
Michael EndeWhat I've started I must finish. I've gone too far to turn back. Regardless of what may happen, I have to go forward. ✨ The Neverending Story by Michael End, translated by R… ▶242Time
Michael EndeWhen 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 manipulat… ▶286HumanityPolitics
Michael EndeOne 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 i… ▶264DeathHumorSadness
Michael EndeOnly the right name gives beings and things their reality. A wrong name makes everything unreal. That's what lies do.232Truth
Michael EndeAnd 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… ▶243HumanityLifeLove
Michael EndeIf 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 arrangem… ▶254Thought
Michael EndeThere are many kinds of joy, but they all lead to one: the joy to be loved.254Love
Michael EndeHe had been through a good deal in the course of the Great Quest — he had seen beautiful things and horrible things — but up until now he had not known that one and the same creat… ▶277Life
Michael EndeYou must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, foolish and wise. ✨ The Neverending Story by Michael End, transla… ▶255Politics
Michael EndeCalendars 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.201Time
Michael EndeAll 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, own… ▶268LifeLove
Michael EndeAs 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, fat, timid boy. … ▶269LifeSadness
Michael EndeYou 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. But if all at once it looks as though your wish might come … ▶214Truth
Michael EndeThere were doors that looked like large keyholes, others that resembled the entrances to caves, there were golden doors, some were padded and some were studded with nails, some we… ▶192Reading
Michael EndeAt 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 ha… ▶248HumanityLifeTime
Michael EndeThose who still think that listening isn’t an art should see if they can do it half as well.215Thought
Michael EndeLife 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 an… ▶2510HumanityLifeLove
Michael EndeYou 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 sure you'll never get it swept... And then you … ▶2510ThoughtTime
