Innocence Quotes

Isn't life,' she stammered, 'isn't life--' But what life was she couldn't explain. No matter. He qui...

I want to get out of here means I want to be innocent.

When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the...

That's most interesting. But I was no more a mind-reader then than today. Iwas weeping for an altoge...

Nos-tal-gic,’ Akira said, as though it were a word he had been struggling to find. Then he said a wo...

When Aziza first spotted Mariam in the morning, her eyes always sprang open, and she began mewling a...

When Aziza first spotted Mariam in the morning, her eyes always sprang open, and she began mewling a...

I'll put it on my table where I keep my drawings," Hassan said.His saying that made me kind of sad. ...

what time can be more beautiful than the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and ...

What do you call yourself?" the Fawn said at last. Such a soft sweet voice it had!"I wish I knew!" t...

I think scent is sensual. I guess evoking a mood or a spirit is key, and I think with the women's fr...

Maybe I don’t really want to know what’s going on. Maybe I’d rather not know. Maybe I couldn’t bear ...

I remembered my little brother, Allyn, had appeared so innocent and angelic when he slept--similar t...

He moved like a dancer, which is not surprising; a horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps mo...

A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for...

I refuse to lie to children. I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence.

Atheism is aristocratic the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes...

And that's what innocence is. It's simple and trusting like a child, not judgmental and committed to...

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them,...

To an atheist all writings tend to atheism: he corrupts the most innocent matter with his own venom.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

Until that day at the dress department Lucie had been many things to me: a child, a source of comfor...

I would be guilty only if I were innocent of working to destroy racism in my country.

Although I was an imaginative child, prone to nightmares, I had persuaded my parents to take me to M...

An echo from the past when, innocentWe looked upon the present with delightAnd doubted not the futur...

I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, ...

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

It takes a very long time to become young.

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves...

He himself, he realized, had always been most abominably frightened, even at the height of his divin...

He himself, he realized, had always been most abominably frightened, even at the height of his divin...

He himself, he realized, had always been most abominably frightened, even at the height of his divin...

He himself, he realized, had always been most abominably frightened, even at the height of his divin...

There's a little war in progress here. There won't be anything left of the place if it goes on at th...

Irony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence.

Never such innocence,Never before or since,As changed itself to pastWithout a word--the menLeaving t...

MCMXIVThose long uneven linesStanding as patientlyAs if they were stretched outsideThe Oval or Villa...

Just as she was unaware of the hidden currents of politics running below the surface of College affa...

I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.

Adults had the notion that juveniles needed to suffer. Only when they had suffered enough to wipe ou...

(...) there are these fading, ageing girls who constantly let themselves go over the edge without re...

Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to r...

A boy is in the parlour what the pit is in the playhouse; independent, irresponsible, looking out fr...

Here, by the grace of God and an inside straight, we have a personality untouched by the psychotic t...

So was I once myself a swinger of birches.And so I dream of going back to be.

We try to bring up our children so that they are protected from the world's evils, only to find we'v...

O how can wicked men seem so steady and untouched with such black hearts, while poor innocents stand...

We've let the blade of our innocence dull over time, and it's only in innocence that you find any ki...

In Paris, Julien’s position with regard to Madame de Renal would very soon have been simplified; but...

And as I thought about the body of Ray Brower in this light- or lack of it- what I felt was not quea...

You lost your innocence when you grew up, all right, everyone knew that, but did you have to lose yo...

The dead are mute, but the living still have voice with which to protest their innocence. Often thei...

Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by prete...

His games have a deeper meaning and fascination that adults can no longer fathom and require nothing...

What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man...

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but ...

COME HOME, TENAR! COME HOME!”In the deep valley, in the twilight, the apple trees were on the eve of...

Monsieur, innocence is its own crown! Innocence has only to act to be noble! She is as august in rag...

Monsieur, innocence is its own crown. Innocence has no truck with highness. It is as august in rags ...

Cosette, by learning that she was beautiful, lost the grace of not knowing it; an exquisite grace, f...

It is difficult to frighten those who are easily astonished; ignorance causes fearlessness. Children...

She thought of the recurrent waves of pain that for some reason or other she and her husband had had...

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

The enlightenment driven away,The habit-forming pain,Mismanagement and grief:We must suffer them all...

As innocent as a new-laid egg.

I am not a 'defender' of the September 11 attacks, but simply pointing out that if U.S. foreign poli...

Experience had taught me that innocence seldom utters outraged shrikes. Guilt does. Innocence is a m...

For Mercy has a human heart;Pity, a human face;And Love, the human form divine:And Peace the human d...

Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.

Did he who made the lamb make thee?

Had laws not been we never had been blam'd For not to know we sinn'd is innocence.

Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men ...

Heaven lies around us in our infancy.

His [Vyāsadeva's] son was a great devotee, an equibalanced monist, whose mind was always concentrate...

You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.

Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the sa...

[Murder] doesn't concern the victim and the guilty only. It affects the innocent too. You and I are ...

The innocent must not suffer.

During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and...

The innocent is the person who explains nothing.

To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it...

Our purpose is to find out whether innocence, the moment it becomes involved in an action, can avoid...

If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themsel...

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!The world forgetting, by the world forgot.Eternal sunshine o...

Even if I could live forever,” she said to the baby, “I still don’t know which way I would teach you...

Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept becau...

I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, ...

When I saw him look at me with lust, I dropped my eyes but, in glancing away from him, I caught sigh...

Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence; it takes conscience, our belief that so...

When we lose our innocence - when we start feeling the weight of the atmosphere and learn that there...

Innocence is a better world.

I was very lighthearted. This often the way when the abandonment of personal responsibility is enfor...

Esteem for the army - never in this country regarded, in the continental manner, as a popular expres...

You loved people and you came to depend on their being there. but people died or changed or went awa...

There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on...

There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on...

He was an American character, one typical of men of his generation, men who embraced the notion of f...

How quickly we come around,' Sazed whispered. 'It wasn't long ago that men were forced to watch the ...