I read Peter Pan as a Child, and loved it.
Then I read it as a teenager, and loved it.
I just now read the book as a full blown adult, and guess what? It’s still great.
Despite being a “children’s book”, these quotes touch on some pretty adult topics such as love, life, and growing older…
I hope you enjoy these quotes as much as I enjoyed putting them together.
“It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness.-J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.-J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
““Would you like an adventure now," he said casually to John, “or would you like to have your tea first?”-J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“To live will be an awfully big adventure.-J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you, Peter Pan. That’s where I’ll be waiting.-J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“Never is an awfully long time.-J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.-J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.-J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.-J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“I suppose it’s like the ticking crocodile, isn’t it? Time is chasing after all of us.-J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“There are many different kinds of bravery. There’s the bravery of thinking of others before one’s self. Now, your father has never brandished a sword nor fired a pistol, thank heavens. But he has made many sacrifices for his family, and put away many dreams.-J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“All you need is faith, and trust, and a little bit of pixie dust.-J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“Forever is a very long time Peter.-J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“I taught you to fight and to fly. What more could there be?-J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“Second star to the right, and straight on til morning.-J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“To die would be an awfully big adventure.-J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“Just always be waiting for me.-J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny things to the stars.-J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“Do you know,” Peter asked, “why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories.-J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.-J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.-J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.-J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.-J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“Stars are beautiful, but they may not take part in anything, they must just look on forever.-J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter.-J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.-J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“Death is but the next great adventure.-J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!-J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
