Michael Ende Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• People never seemed to notice that, by saving time, they were losing something else. No one cared to admit that life was becoming ever poorer, bleaker and more monotonous. The ones who felt this most keenly were the children, because no one had time for them any more. But time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart. And the more people saved, the less they had.

  Michael Ende

  Children, Heart, Monotonous Life

• 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

  Children, Passion, Understanding

  "The Neverending Story" by Michael End, translated by Ralph Manheim, 1983.

• One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or the brothel door. There is but one door one may not enter it through, which is the child room door. The critics will never forgive you such. The great Rudyard Kipling is one of a number of people to have suffered from this. I keep wondering to myself what this peculiar contempt towards anything related to childhood is all about.

  Michael Ende

  Children, Doors, Numbers

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