Cornelia Funke Quotes

Peace in every step. The shining red sun is my heart. Each flower smiles with me. How green, how fresh all that grows. How cool the wind blows. Peace is every step. It turns the endless path to joy.

This place was truly the highest and the lowest of all worlds - the most beautiful senses, the most exquisite emotions.. the most malevolent desires, the darkest deeds. Perhaps it was meant to be so. Perhaps without the lows, the highs could not be reached.

The storm is over, there is sunlight in my heart. I have a glass of wine and sit thinking of what has passed.

If I could have two things in one: the peace of the grave, and the light of the sun.

I've been lucky to have a beautiful wife and children. The idea that something so beautiful can be so horrific at the same time. Beauty is a complex thing.

Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love, and a peaceful heart.

A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly.

The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.

There was a serenity about him always that had the look of innocence, when, technically, the word was no longer applicable.

This peace is not the absence of anything. Real peace is the presence of something beautiful. Both peace and the thirst for it have been in the heart of every human being in every century and every civilization.

At Blackwater Pond the tossed waters have settled after a night of rain. I dip my cupped hands. I drink a long time. It tastes like stone, leaves, fire. It falls cold into my body, waking the bones. I hear them deep inside me, whispering oh what is that beautiful thing that just happened?

Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.

Every side of a coin has another side.

Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!

In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.

I have an incredibly dark, mysterious, witchy side and another side that's very bubbly and cheerleader-esque.

We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency.

Sometimes a game comes at just the right moment in your life. 'Flower' is beautiful, serene, and a bit of sunshine in a gloomy world. I remember going through a rough spot in my life and turning on 'Flower' for a little break in the day. You fly through luscious landscapes collecting petals and painting the world with life.

Peace does exist. It exists in your heart and soul.

Cross the meadow and the stream and listen as the peaceful water brings peace upon your soul.

Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

I'm nothing more than what you actually see, but I am also the complete opposite.

Being human is being a lot of things at the same time.

I never want readers to be comfortable, to feel like we're in a comedy or a drama. Life is never just one of those things. Life is a balance of all those things.