146+ Brilliant Peter Pan Quotes To Blow Your Mind

Peter Pan, released in 1953, is an American animated fantasy-adventure film produced by Walt Disney. The story of this movie was based on a 1904 play named ‘Peter Pan’ or the ‘Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up‘, by Scottish novelist J. M. Barrie. Later in 1911, he gave rise to another version of the same in the form of a novel named ‘Peter and Wendy‘. Needless to say, Peter Pan sayings can be treated as thoughts of an innocent yet wise kid.

You can think wonderful thoughts with our selection of Peter Pan quotes with images because there are so many little gems of quotes from Peter Pan. Here are some life sayings that will add just that little bit of sparkle and fairy dust to your life.

“He flies without wings. His shadow leads a merry little life of its own. Face-to-face with the terrible Captain Hook, Peter dispatches that pirate with jaunty ease. Peter is at home with mermaids and understands their language. He is twelve years old forever simply because he refuses to grow up beyond that comfortable age. Most remarkable of all, he knows where Never Land is and how to get there.”  ― Walt Disney

Here are the best Peter Pan quotes:

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I hope you enjoy these famous Peter Pan lines about flying, growing up, bravery, believing, fairies, life and love:

Best Peter Pan Quotes

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

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”

“Second star to the right and straight on ’til morning.”

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

“But where do you live mostly now?”
“With the lost boys.”
“Who are they?”
“They are the children who fall out of their perambulators when the nurse is looking the other way. If they are not claimed in seven days they are sent far away to the Neverland to defray expenses. I’m captain.”
“What fun it must be!”
“Yes,” said cunning Peter, “but we are rather lonely. You see we have no female companionship.”
“Are none of the others girls?”
“Oh, no; girls, you know, are much too clever to fall out of their prams.”
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”The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it. For to have faith is to have wings.“

“All children, except one, grow up.”

“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away, and away means forgetting.”

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“Stars are beautiful, but they may not take part in anything, they must just look on forever.”

“You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than the other girls.”

“If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.”

“It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness.”

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”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.”

”Think of all the joy you’ll find when you leave the world behind and bid your cares goodbye.“

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“Oh, the cleverness of me!”

“You know, I have the strangest feeling I’ve seen that ship before… a long time ago, when I was very young.”

Most Inspirational Peter Pan Quotes

These famous Peter Pan quotes and sayings illustrate his timeless wisdom and humor. Also, iconic Beauty and The Beast quotes will not be forgotten and will continue to capture readers for generations to come.

“I came to listen to the stories.”

“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.”

“All it takes is faith and trust, oh! and something I forgot: dust.”

“Would you like an adventure now, or would like to have your tea first?”

“Go on! Go back and grow up! But I’m warning you, once you’re grown up you can never come back.”

“Fairies have to be one thing or the other because being so small they, unfortunately, have room for one feeling only at a time.”

“You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kinds that like to grow up. In the end, she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than the other girls.”

“You’re next, Hook! This time you’ve gone too far!”

“There could not have been a lovelier sight, but there was none to see it except a little boy who was staring in at the window. He had ecstasies innumerable that other children can never know, but he was looking through the window at the one joy from which he must be forever barred.”

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“Pan, who and what art thou?” he cried huskily.
“I’m youth, I’m joy,” Peter answered at a venture, “I’m a little bird that has broken out of the egg.”

“If you shut your eyes and are a lucky one, you may see at times a shapeless pool of lovely pale colours suspended in the darkness; then if you squeeze your eyes tighter, the pool begins to take shape, and the colours become so vivid that with another squeeze they must go on fire.”

“Nobody calls Pan a coward and lives!”

“Stars are beautiful, but they may not take an active part in anything, they must just look on forever. It is a punishment put on them for something they did so long ago that no star now knows what it was. So the older ones have become glassy-eyed and seldom speak (winking is the star language), but the little ones still wonder.”

“She was a lovely lady, with a romantic mind and such a sweet mocking mouth. Her romantic mind was like the tiny boxes, one within the other, that come from the puzzling East, however many you discover there is always one more; and her sweet mocking mouth had one kiss on it that Wendy could never get, though there it was, perfectly conspicuous in the right-hand corner.”

“I say, Wendy…always if you see me forgetting you, just keep on saying ‘I’m Wendy,’ and then I’ll remember.”

“Stop playing and help me find my shadow! Shadow … shadow …”

“Odd things happen to all of us on our way through life without our noticing for a time that they have happened.”

“Well, I’m certainly proud of you, you blockheads.”

“I don’t know whether you have ever seen a map of a person’s mind. Doctors sometimes draw maps of other parts of you, and your own map can become intensely interesting, but catch them trying to draw a map of a child’s mind, which is not only confused, but keeps going round all the time.”

“What of Pan? Would unhappy thoughts bring him down?”

“Faint hearts never won, Fair Lady.”

To Die Would Be An Awfully Big Adventure:

Hook: And now, Peter Pan, you shall die.
Peter: To die would be an awfully big adventure.

At Chapter 8, The Mermaids’ Lagoon, Peter was alone on the lagoon. The rock was very small now; soon it would be submerged. Pale rays of light tiptoed across the waters; and by and by there was to be heard a sound at once the most musical and the most melancholy in the world: the mermaids calling to the moon. Peter was not quite like other boys, but he was afraid at last. A tremor ran through him, like a shudder passing over the sea; but on the sea one shudder follows another till there are hundreds of them, and Peter felt just the one. Next moment he was standing erect on the rock again, with that smile on his face and a drum beating within him. It was saying, “To die will be an awfully big adventure.

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Peter Pan Quotes About Growing Up

“Keep adventuring and stay not a grown up.”
Explore the world like a child and you will see how beautiful it is.

”Give me one reason to why one should become a grown-up.“

“All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs. Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, ‘Oh, why can’t you remain like this forever!’ This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.”

”Don’t grow up. It’s a trap.“

”Now you understand why Peter Pan didn’t want to grow up.“

”If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I’ll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me! “

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Peter Pan Quotes About Flying

”Think of the happiest things. It’s the same as having wings.“

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”The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it. For to have faith is to have wings.“

”Your dreams can stay forever with you. No one can take and no one can make it true except you.“

Peter Pan Goodbye Quote

”Just always be waiting for me.“

The last thing he ever said to me was ”Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.“

”Never say Goodbye because saying goodbye means going away, and going away means forgetting. “

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Neverland Quotes

Neverland (also spelled Never Land and also known as Never Never Land) is a fictional location featured in the works of J. M. Barrie and those based on them. It is an imaginary faraway place of Peter Pan, Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys, and others.

People in Neverland may cease to age, and its best-known resident famously refused to grow up, so it is often used as a metaphor for eternal childhood (and childishness), immortality, and escapism. Neverland has been featured prominently in subsequent works, either adapting Barrie’s works or expanding upon them.

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“Of all the delectable islands the Neverland is the snuggest and most compact, not large and sprawly, you know, with tedious distances between one adventure and another, but nicely crammed. When you play at it by day with the chairs and table-cloth, it is not in the least alarming, but in the two minutes before you go to sleep it becomes very nearly real. That is why there are night-lights.”

“There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.”

“Feeling that Peter was on his way back, the Neverland had again woke into life. We ought to use the pluperfect and say wakened, but woke is better and was always used by Peter.”

“Peter was not with them for the moment, and they felt rather lonely up there by themselves. He could go so much faster than they that he would suddenly shoot out of sight, to have some adventure in which they had no share.
He would come down laughing over something fearfully funny he had been saying to a star, but he had already forgotten what it was, or he would come up with mermaid scales still sticking to him, and yet not be able to say for certain what had been happening.
It was really rather irritating to children who had never seen a mermaid.”

“There were letters on the bottom, letters he’d seen before, on the ship that had carried him from London, the ship that had broken up on the reef that guarded the island. The letters said: NEVERLAND.
Peter looked at it. And then he looked around him–at the lagoon; at the rock where the mermaids (Mermaids!) lounged; at the palm-fringed beach; at the tinkling fairy flitting over his head; at his new friends the Mollusks; at the jungle-covered, pirate-infested mountains looming over it all.
Then he looked at the board again, and he laughed out loud.
‘That’s exactly where I am,’ he said.”

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Tinkerbell Quotes

Tinker Bell (Tink for short), is a fictional character from J. M. Barrie’s 1904 play Peter Pan and its 1911 novelization Peter and Wendy. She is Peter Pan’s sidekick and regularly joins his exploits throughout the magical isle of Neverland.

Despite her cute appearance, Tinker Bell is very sassy, feisty, stubborn, and hot-tempered. Upon meeting Wendy and other human females, Tink immediately shows disgust and irritation, mostly out of jealousy. This drives Tink to perform acts both selfish, and even murderous, much to Peter’s annoyance. However, despite her rough interior, at her core, Tinker Bell is devoted and loyal to those she loves, and will eventually come to terms with those she initially resents, should they prove themselves worthy of friendly treatment. This can be seen, most notably, with her relation to Wendy Darling in the original film.

As a fairy, Tink can fly and produce pixie dust, which allows others to fly. She is described as being a tinker, meaning that she mends pots, kettles, and acorn caps, and is shown to be very skilled, gifted, and talented at it too.

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“Tink was not all bad: or, rather, she was all bad just now, but, on the other hand, sometimes she was all good. Fairies have to be one thing or the other because being so small they, unfortunately, have room for one feeling only at a time. They are, however, allowed to change, only it must be a complete change.”

“Over there, Tink. In its den. Is it there?”

Peter: You’re a… you’re a complex Freudian hallucination having something to do with my mother and I don’t know why you have wings, but you have very lovely legs and you’re a very nice tiny person and what am I saying, I don’t know who my mother was; I’m an orphan and I’ve never taken drugs because I missed the sixties, I was an accountant.
Tinkerbell: Guess again.
[Tinkerbell takes the sheet which makes Peter trip on the floor]
Peter: [disoriented] Oh, look, stars.
Tinkerbell: That’s right, Peter, second star to the right and straight on till morning.
[Tinkerbell takes Peter by the strings of the sheet]
Tinkerbell: Neverland!

Peter: [sees Tinkerbell on the Peter Pan statue] Tink!
Tinkerbell: Say it, Peter. Say it and mean it.
Peter: I believe in fairies.
Tinkerbell: You know that place between sleep and awake? That place where you still remember dreaming?
[Peter nods]
Tinkerbell: That’s where I’ll always love you… Peter Pan. That’s where I’ll be waiting.

Tinkerbell: If less is more, there’s no end to me, Peter Pan.

Tinkerbell: I drank poison for you! You called me Tink.

Tinkerbell: Well, whoever you are it’s still you, ’cause only one person has that smell.
Peter: Smell?
Tinkerbell: The smell of someone who has ridden the back of the wind, Peter. The smell of a hundred fun summers, with sleeping in trees and adventures with Indians and Pirates. Oh, remember, Peter? The world was ours. We could do everything or nothing. All it had to be was anything ’cause it was always us.

“Guess what? I’ve decided, I’m not gonna be a tinker fairy anymore.”

“Their meal was illuminated by torches, which Gwen found were utterly without fire. What the children called torches were really just small platforms on tall, wooden poles.”

“Well, I was thinking. Why do I have to be a tinker? Just because some silly hammer glowed? I mean, whose to say it wasn’t just some big mistake? Maybe I can just switch my talent!”

“I wouldn’t be surprised if that is the way things go after all – that all things end happy.”

“A faerie heart is different from a human heart. Human hearts are elastic. They have room for all sorts of passions, and they can break and heal and love again and again.”

Inspirational Tinkerbell Quotes

Wendy Quotes

“But mother, I don’t want to grow up.”

“Oh, Peter, I knew you’d come back! I saved your shadow for you. Oh, I do hope it isn’t rumpled. You know, you look exactly the way I thought you would. A litter taller perhaps.”

“My name is Wendy. Wendy Moira Angela Darling.”

“Why can’t you fly now, mother? Because I am grown up, dearest. When people grow up they forget the way.”

“Peter Pan will save us!”

“Who be you to order me about and call me girlie?”

“You can’t stick it on with soap, Peter! It needs sewing. That’s the proper way to do it.”

“After all, one can’t leave his shadow lying about and not miss it sooner or later, don’t you agree?”

“I’ll think of a mermaid lagoon, underneath a magic moon.”

“Oh, but, mother, it was a such a wonderful adventure!”

“I’m so happy, I think I’ll give you a kiss.”

“Oh, Peter, you saved my life!”

“Adventures! In which good triumphs over evil!”

“Why, Peter, a mother’s someone who loves and cares for you and tells you stories.”

“Well, a mother, a real mother, is the most wonderful person in the world. She’s the angel voice that bids you goodnight, kisses your cheek, whispers ‘sleep tight.’”

John Quotes

“Careful, Michael, my glasses!”

“I shall try to be worthy of my post.”

“I propose we leave for home at once.”

“Michael, the buried treasure. Where is it?”

“Insolent pup!”

“I’m frightfully sorry, old chaps.”

“Oh, I should like very much to cross swords with some real buccaneers.”

Captain Hook Quotes

“Blast that Peter Pan. If I could only find his hideout, I’d trap him in his lair.”

“Why, you blithering blockhead!”

“Good form, Mr. Smee? Blast good form! Did Pan show good form when he did this to me?”

“That cursed Peter Pan, making a fool out of me.”

“Look alive, you swabs! We’ve got him this time, Mr. Smee.”

“I’ll show you this ghost has blood in his veins.”

“So passeth a worthy opponent.”

“I’m a codfish.”

“But we mustn’t judge Peter too harshly, me dear. It’s that Wendy who’s to blame.”

Famous Quotes From Peter Pan

I suppose it’s like the ticking crocodile, isn’t it? Time is chasing after all of us.

Never is an awfully long time.

When there’s a smile in your heart, there’s no better time to start.

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Years rolled on again, and Wendy had a daughter. This ought not to be written in ink but in a golden splash.

All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.

You know that place between sleep and wake, the place where you can still remember dreaming?…

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Absence makes the heart grow fonder…or forgetful.

On these magic shores children at play are for ever beaching their coracles. We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more.

The second star to the right, shines in the night for you, to tell you that the dreams you have really can come true.

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Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny things to the stars.

Forget them, Wendy. Forget them all. Come with me where you’ll never, never have to worry about grown up things again.

All are keeping a sharp look-out in front, but none suspects that the danger may be creeping up from behind.

Wait for me somewhere between reality and all we’ve ever dreamed.

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Do you know…why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories.

Next year he did not come for her. She waited in a new frock because the old one simply would not meet, but he never came.

A moment after the fairy’s entrance the window was blown open by the breathing of the little stars, and Peter dropped in.

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

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I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.

It was then that Hook bit him. Not the pain of this but its unfairness was what dazed Peter. It made him quite helpless. He could only stare, horrified. Every child is affected thus the first time he is treated unfairly.

The difference between him and the other boys at such a time was that they knew it was make-believe, while to him make-believe and true were exactly the same thing. This sometimes troubled them, as when they had to make-believe that they had had their dinners.

Don’t you understand? You mean more to me than anything in this whole world!

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In time they could not even fly after their hats. Want of practice, they called it; but what it really meant was that they no longer believed.

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.

Will they reach the nursery in time? If so, how delightful for them, and we shall all breathe a sigh of relief, but there will be no story. On the other hand, if they are not in time, I solemnly promise that it will all come right in the end.

It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness.

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I’ll teach you how to jump on the wind’s back, and then away we go.

Even though you want to try to, never grow up.

Children have the strangest adventures without being troubled by them. For instance, they may remember to mention, a week after the event happened, that when they were in the wood they had met their dead father and had a game with him.

Fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them.

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They took it for granted that if they went he would go also, but really they scarcely cared. Thus children are ever so ready, when novelty knocks, to desert their dearest ones.

But the years came and went without bringing the careless boy; and when they met again Wendy was a married woman, and Peter was no more to her than a little dust in the box in which she had kept her toys.

She also said she would give him a kiss if he liked, but Peter did not know what she meant, and he held out his hand expectantly.

Mrs. Darling first heard of Peter when she was tidying up her children’s minds. It is the nightly custom of every good mother after her children are asleep to rummage in their minds and put things straight for next morning, repacking into their proper places the many articles that have wandered during the day.

I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it does not seem broken at all.

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It was dreadful the way all the three were looking at him, just as if they did not admire him.

Sometimes, though not often, he had dreams, and they were more painful than the dreams of other boys. For hours he could not be separated from these dreams, though he wailed piteously in them. They had to do, I think, with the riddle of his existence.

Some Facts About Peter Pan

How old is Peter Pan?

Generally the character appears about 12–13 years old. Although “The Little White Bird”” and Kensington Gardens” he is only seven days old. But, in Barrie’s play (1904) or novel (1911) his age is not stated at all. The book says that he still had his baby teeth.

Why did Captain Hook turn bad? Why did Peter Pan and Captain Hook become enemies?

Because Peter Pan cut his hand off.

Who did Peter Pan marry?

He marries Wendy’s daughter, Moira.

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