Michael Ende Quotes

There is no shame is being ambivalent about almost everything in your life.

Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.

We fear the thing we want the most.

I made up my mind, but I made it up both ways.

Conviction was not, courage failed, and truth was something to be doubted of.

I have back-and-forth feelings about everything a lot - it's not limited to my albums.

Guilt can make you doubt yourself at the very moment when you need to proceed with certainty.

My day-mind can endure / Upright, in hope, all it must undergo. / But O, afraid, unsure, / My night-mind waking lies too low, too low.

What you hope for, you also fear.

But fear is confusing. It tears you in two. Half of you wants to run far, far away, but the other half is paralyzed, frozen, immovable. And the hard part is that you never know which half is going to win.

I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!

My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man That function is smothered in surmise, And nothing is but what is not.

He should be the one to die, part of me thinks. I don't want to lose him, another part argues. I don't know which part to believe.

Torn between fear and something that resembled love, she wrestled with questions she never dreamed she would face: How could she leave? Then again, how could she stay?

Fear, fear, breeds hopelessness. When you're afraid, you don't know what to believe in, you don't know what to hold on to. You're struggling to find something to believe in.

Harrier twisted himself sideways on his saddle to stare at him [Tiercel]. 'You had a vision,' he said flaty. Yes. No. I don't know. I...Yes. No.

In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.

I started having doubts right on top of my certainty.

It's not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between.

Now I'm confused. Now I don't know what I want.

I knew from day one, the truth would prevail, but I was so scared I didn't know what to do.

I tend toward characters who are more lost than found.

Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

It's not like you make a decision and everything inside you is 100 percent happy.