Michael Ende Quotes

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

Rain, Everything, Fashion

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

Power, Live, Human

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.
Michael Ende

Life, Time, Great

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.
Michael Ende

Great, Silence, Old

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

Life, Time, Heart

Those who still think listening isn't an art should see if they can do it half as well.
Michael Ende

Art, Half, Listening

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

Time, Seem, Spend

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

Safe, Forest, Beasts

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.
Michael Ende

Architecture, Design, Live

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.
Michael Ende

Fear, Past, Important

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Writer

Born: November 12, 1929

Died: August 29, 1995

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