Quotes from book

The Neverending Story

“Maybe all the people who say ghosts don't exist are just afraid to admit that they do.”

“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.”

“Nothing is lost… Everything is transformed.”

“Every real story is a never ending story.”

“You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, foolish and wise.”

“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.”

“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.”

“A story can be new and yet tell about olden times. The past comes into existence with the story.”

“There are many kinds of delusion.”

“There are many kinds of joy, but they all lead to one: the joy to be loved.”

“My will can control anything that’s empty.”

“Strange as it may seem, horror loses its power to frighten when repeated too often.”

“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.”

“Without a past you can't have a future.”

“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.”

“But that is another story and shall be told another time.”

“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.”

“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?”