The Neverending Story is a fantasy novel written by Michael Ende and was first published in 1979.
It relates the tale of a little boy named Bastian who visits a magical realm called Fantastica via the pages of a book.
I have compiled a list of the top quotes from The Neverending Story novel.
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The Neverending Story Quotes by Michael Ende
“You must live your story.” ~ Michael Ende (quote from The Neverending Story).
“There are many kinds of joy, but they all lead to one: the joy to be loved.” ~ Michael Ende (quote from The Neverending Story).
“My will can control anything that’s empty.” ~ Michael Ende (quote from The Neverending Story).
“But that’s another story and shall be told another time.” ~ Michael Ende (quote from The Neverending Story).
“He rode by day and he rode by night, in the scorching sun and the pelting rain.” ~ Michael Ende (quote from The Neverending Story).
“It was a wonderful feeling, a sense of release and boundless freedom that he had never known before. He was beyond the reach of all the things that had weighed him down and hemmed him in.” ~ Michael Ende (quote from The Neverending Story).
“What I’ve started I must finish. I’ve gone too far to turn back. Regardless of what may happen, I have to go forward.” ~ Michael Ende (quote from The Neverending Story).
Other Book Quotes: The Black Cat Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe and Things Fall Apart Quotes by Chinua Achebe
Quotes from The Neverending Story
“One night I saw the moon, shining so big and round, and I tried to grab it out of the sky.” ~ Michael Ende (quote from The Neverending Story).
“If 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 you have loved and admired, for whom you have hoped and feared, and without whose company life seems empty and meaningless. If such things have not been part of your own experience, you probably won’t understand what Bastian did next.” ~ Michael Ende (quote from The Neverending Story).
“A story can be new and yet tell about olden times. The past comes into existence with the story.” ~ Michael Ende (quote from The Neverending Story).
“Wishes cannot be summoned up or kept away at will. They come from deeper within us than good or bad intentions. And they spring up unannounced.” ~ Michael Ende (quote from The Neverending Story).
“There were thousands and thousands of forms of joy in the world, but that all were essentially one and the same, namely, the joy of being able to love.” ~ Michael Ende (quote from The Neverending Story).
Best The Neverending Story Quotes
“To be wise was to be above joy and sorrow, fear and pity, ambition and humiliation. It was to hate nothing and to love nothing, and above all to be utterly indifferent to the love and hate of others.” ~ Michael Ende (quote from The Neverending Story).
“Human 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 all.” ~ Michael Ende (quote from The Neverending Story).
“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 (quote from The Neverending Story).
“Maybe all the people who say ghosts don’t exist are just afraid to admit that they do.” ~ Michael Ende (quote from The Neverending Story).
“Once someone dreams a dream, it can’t just drop out of existence. But if the dreamer can’t remember it, what becomes of it?” ~ Michael Ende (quote from The Neverending Story).
“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.” ~ Michael Ende (quote from The Neverending Story).
Famous The Neverending Story Quotes
“Some think their only hope of happiness lies in being someone else, and spend their whole lives traveling place to place.” ~ Michael Ende (quote from The Neverending Story).
“Oh, nothing can happen more than once, but all things must happen one day.” ~ Michael Ende (quote from The Neverending Story).
“Without a past you can’t have a future.” ~ Michael Ende (quote from The Neverending Story).
“For 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 salvation.” ~ Michael Ende (quote from The Neverending Story).
“He’s a good old sort. If only he weren’t plumb crazy!” ~ Michael Ende (quote from The Neverending Story).
“Nothing is lost. . .Everything is transformed.” ~ Michael Ende (quote from The Neverending Story).
“He felt very lonely, yet there was a kind of pride in his loneliness.” ~ Michael Ende (quote from The Neverending Story).
“Just as the setting sun turned the clouds to liquid gold.” ~ Michael Ende (quote from The Neverending Story).
“Strange as it may seem, horror loses its power to frighten when repeated too often.” ~ Michael Ende (quote from The Neverending Story).
Thoughtful The Neverending Story Quotes
“What he had hoped for was his ruin and what he had feared his salvation.” ~ Michael Ende (quote from The Neverending Story).
“You 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 true, you suddenly find yourself wishing you had never wished for any such thing.” ~ Michael Ende (quote from The Neverending Story).
“Every real story is a never ending story.” ~ Michael Ende (quote from The Neverending Story).
“Only the right name gives beings and things their reality. A wrong name makes everything unreal. That’s what lies do.” ~ Michael Ende (quote from The Neverending Story).
“If 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 arrangement varies. From letters words are formed, from words sentences, from sentences chapters, and from chapters stories.” ~ Michael Ende (quote from The Neverending Story).
“The Glory was entrusted to you, you weren’t given permission to pass it on as you see fit.” ~ Michael Ende (quote from The Neverending Story).
“You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, foolish and wise.” ~ Michael Ende (quote from The Neverending Story).
“When you know as much as we do, nothing matters.” ~ Michael Ende (quote from The Neverending Story).
“A person’s reason for doing someone a good turn matters as much as the good turn itself.” ~ Michael Ende (quote from The Neverending Story).
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