Jean Anouilh Quotes

I long to be in the midst of the children, and have more pleasure in their little follies than in the wisdom of the wise.

One of the greatest joys in life is watching a child laugh

Adult characters are all the things they've encountered over time. But kids haven't accumulated all the life experience, all the regrets. They tend to be more in the moment, more willing to play, to be joyful.

I enjoy the quiet life.

I love kids - they're so carefree and always put a smile on my face.

Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.

Waves of a serene life pass over us from time to time, like flakes of sunlight over the fields in cloudy weather.

When the voices of children are heard on the greenAnd laughing is heard on the hill,My heart is at rest within my breastAnd everything else is still.

I want death to find me planting my cabbages.

Behold the life at ease; it drifts, The sharpened life commands its course.

Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.

Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.

It says, I think, that at root that we're children, or we'd like to be. And the best of us each keep as much of that childhood with us as we grow into adulthood, as we can muster... And even after we're past the point of being able to play the game with any skill, if we love it, then it's like Peter Pan - we remain boys forever, we don't die.

A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.

Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure.

Enjoying the least things - a chill glass of water, a moment of play with the cat, the sight of sunlight caught in the frost spangling the locust twigs - is a form of prayer.

Kids. You gotta love them. I adore children. A little salt, a squeeze of lemon--perfect.

The joy and smile of even one child is worth more than the prancing intellects of a thousand men.

We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is to play, to enjoy itself, to be a child. If we merely look to the end of the process, the purpose of life is death

So dear night the half of life is, And the fairest half indeed.

You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.

A sleeping child gives me the impression of a traveler in a very far country.

The simple dignity of a child drinking a bowl of milk embodies the fascination of an ancient rite.

How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.