The best Quotes by Maurice Sendak

Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children's letters -- sometimes very hastily -- but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, 'Dear Jim: I loved your card." Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, 'Jim loved your card so much he ate it." That to me was one of the highest compliments I've ever received. He didn't care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.

Please don't go. We'll eat you up. We love you so.

Where the Wild Things Are

There must be more to life than having everything.

Life Greed

There is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality.

Imagination Reality

Then from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat, so he gave up being king of the wild things.

Where the Wild Things Are

I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more.

Grief & Condolence Day of the Dead

You cannot write for children. They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.

Children & Childhood Books Writing

And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.

Where the Wild Things Are

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No one does children's stories like Maurice Sendak.

Bill Moyers

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Happiness is not always the best way to be happy.

Judith in Where the Wild Things Are

Happiness

A child's voice, however honest and true, is meaningless to those who've forgotten how to listen.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Children & Childhood Hearing & Listening

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

Albert Einstein

Children & Childhood Fairytales

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Little Prince

Children & Childhood Birthday Age

Young boys should never be sent to bed... they always wake up a day older.

Finding Neverland

Children & Childhood Bed

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited.

Albert Einstein

Knowledge Imagination Criminal Minds

Gaston: "How can you read this, there's no pictures?"
Belle: "Well, some people use their imagination."

Belle in Beauty and the Beast

Imagination Reading

Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.

Pain / Nagato in Naruto

Life Pain Hurting Falling down

The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed.

Pat in Silver Linings

Life Breakup

The Jedi are trained to let go. They're trained from birth. They're not supposed to form attachments. They can love people – in fact, they should love everybody. They should love their enemies; they should love the Sith. But they can't form attachments. So what all these movies are about is: greed. Greed is a source of pain and suffering for everybody.

George Lucas

Greed Jedi

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

Thorin Eichenschild in The Hobbit

Greed Wise Sayings

People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true. That's how they define reality. But what does it mean to be correct or true? Merely vague concepts. Their reality may all be a mirage. Can we consider them to simply be living in their own world, shaped by their beliefs?

Itachi Uchiha in Naruto

Reality

I’m not crazy about reality, but it’s still the only place to get a decent meal.

Ernest Cline in Ready Player One

Food Reality

Those that we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Grief & Condolence Day of the Dead

You are going to lose people in your life.
And I realize that no matter how much you spent with them,
or how much you appreciated them and told them so,
it will never seem like it was enough.

Grief & Condolence Missing Someone Loss

It is not that we are not sad for his passing. But in celebrating life, he shall remain with us forever. What better way to strengthen the bonds of the family that remains, than celebrating all who came before?

World of Warcraft - Dragonflight

Day of the Dead

If love could have saved you, you would have lived forever.

Grief & Condolence Sad Quotes Day of the Dead

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones - Season 1 Episode 2

Books Mind & Apprehension Intelligence

"One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us."

Cassandra Clare in The Infernal Devices

Books

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