Quotes from Michael Ende

Sana ÅŸunu söyleyeyim Momo, hayatta en tehlikeli ÅŸey, gerçekleÅŸmiÅŸ hayallerdir.

You'd really set a hungry werewolf free? Do you know what that means? Nobody would be safe from me.' 'I know,' said Atreyu. 'But I'm Nobody. Why should I be afraid of you?

Like all true transformations, it was as slow and gentle as the growth of a plant.

From now on you'll succeed in everything you attempt. Because I'm a luckdragon. Even when I was caught in the web, I didn't give up hope. And as you see, I was right.

Kölelik d???nda hiçbir ÅŸey bilmeyen köleler uysal kölelerdir. Sadece tutuklu yaÅŸam?n? bilen tutuklular özgür olmamalar?n?n ac?s?n? çekmezler.

You ask me what you will be there. But what are you here? What are you creatures of Fantastica? Dreams, poetic inventions, characters in a neverending story. Do you think you're real? Well yes, here in your world you are.

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." - momo

In fact, that's the heart of the matter. Don't you see? If humans believe Fantastica doesn't exist, they won't get the idea of visiting your country. And as long as they don't know you creatures of Fantastica as you really are, the Manipulators do what they like with them.

Belki ÅŸimdi pek çok kimse, bu da bir ÅŸey mi, herkes dinlemesini bilir, diyecektir. Oysa hiç de öyle deÄŸil. Çok az insan gerçekten iyi bir dinleyicidir.

When your turn comes to jump into the Nothing, you too will be a nameless servant of power, with no will of your own. Who knows what use they will make of you? Maybe you'll help them 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. Yes, you little Fantastican, big things will be done in the human world with your help, wars started, empires founded …

The human world is full of weak-minded people, who think they're as clever as can be and are convinced that it's terribly important to persuade even the children that Fantastica doesn't exist. Maybe they will be able to make good use of you.

Hayal kurmak, suç iÅŸlemekten farks?zd?.

Now he knew why humans had stopped coming to Fantastica and why none would come to give the Childlike Empress new names. The more of Fantastica that was destroyed, the more lies flooded the human world, and the more unlikely it became that a child of man should come to Fantastica. It was a vicious circle from which there was no escape. Now Atreyu knew it. And so did someone else: Bastian Balthazar Bux.

Ä°nsan?n iÅŸini severek ve isteyerek yapmas?n?n bir önemi yoktu. Aksine, önemli olan ÅŸey, ne kadar k?sa sürede ne kadar çok iÅŸin yap?ld???yd?.

He 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 creature can be both, that beauty can be terrifying.

Orada her ?ey hesapl?, her ?ey planl?yd?. Her santim ve her an. Zaman tasarruf edeyim derken asl?nda ba?ka ?eylerden tasarruf etti?inin kimse fark?nda de?ildi.

Ä°nsan zamandan tasarruf ettikçe, zaman azal?yordu.

Bunlar elbette, Momo'nun arkadaÅŸlar?n?n, hele kendisinin hiç sahip olmad??? çok pahal? oyuncaklard?. En küçük ayr?nt?lar?na kadar öyle ince düÅŸünülerek yap?lm??lard? ki çocuklar?n hayal kurmalar?n? gerektiren bir yanlar? kalmam??t?.

?nsan hep yeni bir ?eyler al?rsa, can? s?k?lmaz.

Ama bu adam?, ÅŸimdiye kadar dinlediÄŸi insanlar? anlad??? gibi anlamas? olanaks?zd?. Öteki insanlar?n sanki ruhlar?na s?zar, onlar? anlard?. Ancak bu misafirle bu iÅŸ olmuyordu. Her denemeye kalk??t???nda, bir karanl??a, bir boÅŸluÄŸa dal?yor gibi oluyordu. Sanki kar??s?nda hiç kimse yokmuÅŸ gibiydi. Böyle bir ÅŸey ba??na hiç gelmemiÅŸti.

Man darf nie an die ganze Straße auf einmal denken, verstehst du?

duyduÄŸu nefret onu hasta ediyordu.

Wer keine Vergangenheit mehr hat, der hat auch keine Zukunft.

Momo, Gigi'yle kar??laÅŸt??? andan beri tek söz söyleyememiÅŸti. Oysa ona neler anlatmay? düÅŸlemiÅŸti. Onu as?l ÅŸimdi, bulduÄŸu ÅŸu anda kaybettiÄŸini anlad?.