1,884 Quotes About Play

But that’s the way life is; felicity and expiation play together in the narrow lanes of life like bosom friends, inseparable. You find one, and the other is always around the corner.

You live like comfortable strangers. Like characters in a play.

Time is a game played beautifully by children.

A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.

Critical play means to create or occupy play environments and activities that represent one or more questions about aspects of human life . . . . Criticality in play can be fostered in order to question an aspect of a game’s 'content,' or an aspect of a play scenario’s function that might otherwise be considered a given or necessary.

The enactment of critical play exhibits at least three kinds of action: unplaying, re-dressing or reskinning, and rewriting.

A group’s preference for specific activities is one important way values emerge in a culture. The leisure habits of the rich are framed as activities to see and to be seen at. They prove exercise, but no exertion; they are a courtly site of sociality and pleasure.

Critical play is characterized by a careful examination of social, cultural, political, or even personal themes that function as alternates to popular play spaces.

The main difference between play and playfulness is that play is an activity, while playfulness is an attitude.