J.M. Barrie Quotes: 18

• To die will be an awfully big adventure.

  Peter Pan

• All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.

  Peter Pan

• Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.

  Peter Pan

• I'm not young enough to know everything.

  The Admirable Crichton

• Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

  Peter Pan

• The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.

  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.

  Peter Pan

• Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning.

  Peter Pan

• The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

  The Little White Bird

• Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

• We are all failures- at least the best of us are.

• If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

• The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

• Life is a long lesson in humility.

  The Little Minister

• You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you. That’s where I’ll be waiting.

  Peter Pan

• The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.

  The Little Minister

• When she expressed a doubtful hope that Tinker Bell would be glad to see her, he said, ‘Who is Tinker Bell?’ ‘O Peter,’ she said, shocked; but even when she explained he could not remember. ‘There are such a lot of them,’ he said. ‘I expect she is no more.’ I expect he was right, for fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them.

  Peter Pan

• The door', replied Maimie, 'will always, always be open, and mother will always be waiting at it for me.

  Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens