Michael Ende Quotes

Those who still think listening isn`t an art should see if they can do it half as well.

The odd thing was that, no matter how much time he saved, he never had any to spare; in some mysterious way, it simply vanished.

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

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.

She became so important to them that they wondered how they had ever managed without her in the past. And the longer she stayed with them the more indispensable she became, so indispensable in fact that their one fear was that she might some day move on.

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.

Guido clung to this thought like a drowning man clutching at a straw. He was rich and famous now, he told himself, and wasn`t that what he`d always dreamed of?

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.

No 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 and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.

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.

She would sit by herself in the middle of the old stoe amphitheatre, with the sky`s starry vault overhead, and simply listen to the great silence around her.

In their view, even leisure time had to be used to the full, so as to extract the maximum of entertainment and relaxation with the minimum of delay.

All the beasts in Howling Forest were safe in their caves, nests, and burrows.