Quotes from 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, there's a whole story with people I don't know yet and all kinds of adventures and deeds and battles. And sometimes there are storms at sea, or it takes you to strange cities and countries. All those things are somehow shut up in a book.

because up until then he had always wanted to be someone other than he was, but he didn't want to change.

Há muitas portas para Fantasia, meu rapaz. Há muitos outros livros mágicos. Muitas pessoas nunca percebem isto. Tudo depende da pessoa em cujas mãos o livro vai parar.

Me gustaría saber qué pasa realmente en un libro cuando está cerrado. Naturalmente, dentro solo hay letras impresas sobre el papel, pero sin embargo algo debe pasar, porque cuando lo abro aparece de pronto una historia entera.

Don't let it worry you,' she said. 'And don't worry about tomorrow morning. Go your way. Everything is just as it should be. Good night, my darling boy.

ERSTES KAPITEL in dem die Geschichte mit einem Bums anfängt

Como marioneta dirigida por manos inexpertas, camina calle abajo dando traspiés, se le doblan las rodillas, recupera el equilibrio y prosigue su marcha vacilante.

Y tú sabes sonambular de verdad?-preguntó la muchacha sin aliento-. ¿Y nos lo puedes enseñar? -¡Claro!-respondió el muchacho-. Aunque solo es muy difícil. A dos ya es mucho más fácil. Y si lo hacen muchos a la vez siempre sale bien. ¡Todos los sonámbulos de verdad lo saben!

Some hearts are unappreciative of time, I fear, though they beat like the rest.

The Circle of Eternal Return was an end without an end.

Letters unchangeable and dead freeze what the living did and said.

Usted me considera estúpido, ¿verdad? Tal vez tenga razón. Pero me parece que de alguna manera hay que ser estúpido si se quiere hacer algo. Y a mi, princesa, me interesa más hacer algo que justificarme por ello.

Questa è un'altra storia e andrà raccontata un'altra volta

Trotzdem war etwas besonderes an ihr, nur konnte Lenchen nicht gleich darauf kommen, was es war. Doch dann bemerkte sie es: Die Fee hatte sechs Finger an jeder Hand. Mach dir nichts draus, sagte Franziska Fragezeichen, die Lenchens Blick bemerkt hatte, bei uns Feen ist immer irgendetwas ein bisschen anders als bei gewöhnlichen Menschen. Sonst wären wir ja keine Feen. Das verstehst du doch?

Have you noticed that it's enough just to close your eyes for a few minutes? he asked softly. When you open them again you are in another reality. Everything changes all the time.

Why are you so wicked? Atreyu asked. Because you creatures had a world,' Gmork replied darkly, 'and I didn't.

If it's to get well, it has to hurt. If it stopped hurting, your arm would be dead.

that Fantastica is the land of stories? A story can be new and yet tell about olden times. The past comes into existence with the story.

Little by little, this book was beginning to give him a spooky feeling.

You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, foolish and wise, just as it is in the eyes of the Childlike Empress. You may only search and inquire, never judge. Always remember that, Atreyu!

His will had become as hard as steel, neither fatigue nor hardship could bend it.

Nulla dà maggior potere sugli uomini che la menzogna. Perché gli uomini, figliolo, vivono di idee. E quelle si possono guidare come si vuole.

Und wer die Zeit der Menschen besitzt, der hat unbegrenzte Macht!

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