The best Quotes by Erich Kästner

He, who's not scared, has no imagination.

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One of the main differences between Munich and Berlin is that when thousands of people get drunk in silly clothes and start vomitting, we don't call it "Oktoberfest", we call it "Tuesday".

Felix Lobrecht

Berlin Munich Oktoberfest

If you don't like Munich, I don't know which part of Germany you could like.

Angela Merkel - July 16th 2009, to Dmitry Medvedev

Munich

They say money can't buy happiness. But it can book your flight to Munich - which is kinda the same.

Munich

There's a lot of money to be made in scaring people.

Dana Scully in The X-Files

Fear Conspiracy Theories

Admitting your fears is the first and most difficult step in overcoming them.

Tenzin in The Legend of Korra

Fear

Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Imagination

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

Albert Einstein

Reason & Sanity Imagination

"Oh yes, time flies and before you know it you're old," said Pippi. "Come autumn I'll be ten, and I suppose I'll be past my prime then."

Astrid Lindgren in Pippi Longstocking

Age

"But nightshirts aren't dangerous," Pippi assured her. "They don't bite anybody except in self defense."

Astrid Lindgren in Pippi Longstocking

People say "nothing is impossible", but I do nothing every day.

Winnie the Pooh in Christopher Robin

I always get to where I'm going by walking away from where I've been.

Winnie the Pooh in Christopher Robin

Walking & Going

The Rainbow Fish shared his scales left and right. And the more he gave away, the more delighted he became.

Marcus Pfister in The Rainbow Fish

Give a glittering scale to each one of the other fish. You'll no longer be the most beautiful fish in the sea but you'll discover how to be happy!

Marcus Pfister in The Rainbow Fish

The beginning is always dark.

Michael Ende in The Neverending Story

Beginning

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 in The Neverending Story

Passion

Once there was a boy. He was, let us say, something like fourteen years old; long and loose jointed and towheaded. He wasn't good for much, that boy. His chief delight was to eat and sleep, and after that he liked best to make mischief.

Selma Lagerlöf in Nils Holgersson - The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

One Sunday morning the warm sun came up and - pop! - out of the egg came a tiny and very hungry caterpillar.

Eric Carle in The Very Hungry Caterpillar

He built a small house, called a cocoon, around himself. He stayed inside for more than two weeks. Then he nibbled a hole in the cocoon, pushed his way out and...
he was a beautiful butterfly!

Eric Carle in The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Butterflies

And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws.

Maurice Sendak in Where the Wild Things Are

Happiness is not always the best way to be happy.

Judith in Where the Wild Things Are

Happiness

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

Theodor Seuss Geisel in The Lorax

I am the Lorax, and I'll yell and I'll shout for the fine things on earth that are on their way out!

Theodor Seuss Geisel in The Lorax

You ought to be thankful a hole heaping lot,
for The places and people you're lucky you're not!

Theodor Seuss Geisel in Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?

When you think things are bad,
when you feel sour and blue,
when you start to get mad...
you should do what I do!
Just tell yourself, Duckie,
you're really quite lucky!
Some people are much more...
oh, ever so much more...
oh, muchly much-much more
unlucky than you!

Theodor Seuss Geisel in Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?

So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts!

Theodor Seuss Geisel in Horton Hears a Who!

Voices Elections & Voting Mouth

A person's a person, no matter how small.

Theodor Seuss Geisel in Horton Hears a Who!

Small Things Self-Confidence

Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable.

Roald Dahl in Matilda

It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.

Roald Dahl in Matilda

Children & Childhood Parents

You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose.
You're on your own.
And you know what you know.
And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...

Theodor Seuss Geisel in Oh, the Places You'll Go

Character Self-Confidence

Step with care and great tact
And remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act
Just never forget to be dexterous and deft
And never mix up your right foot with your left.

Theodor Seuss Geisel in Oh, the Places You'll Go

Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before
What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store
What if Christmas... perhaps... means a little bit more!

Theodor Seuss Geisel in How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

Christmas

But I think that the most likely reason of all
May have been that his heart was two sizes too small.

Theodor Seuss Geisel in How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.

Enid Blyton in The Famous Five - Five on a Hike Together

Nothing like having a bucket of cold water flung over you to make you see things as they really are!

Enid Blyton in The Famous Five - Five Have a Mystery to Solve

Kasperl and Seppel soon discover that even the best-laid plans can be foiled, especially when Hotzenplotz enlists the help of his wicked magician friend Petrosilius Zackleman, a gluttonous villain with a weakness for fried potatoes.

Otfried Preußler in The Robber Hotzenplotz

The Robber Hotzenplotz works hard at his job, waking early to hide in the woods and waylay new victims.

Otfried Preußler in The Robber Hotzenplotz

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

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