Innocence Quotes

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbours.

He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate t...

and yet a child’s utter innocence is but its blank ignorance, and the innocence more or less wanes a...

Voll Blüten steht der Pfirsichbaum nicht jede wächst zur Frucht sie schimmern hell wie Rosenschaum d...

Obedient to no man, dependent only on weather and season, without a goal before them or a roof above...

This was when he first suspected that the kindly child-loving God extolled by his headmistress might...

Her purity of spirit would never be in doubt, though she moved through a blemished world.

It is photography itself that creates the illusion of innocence. Its ironies of frozen narrative len...

For children, childhood is timeless. It is always the present. Everything is in the present tense. O...

Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily mis...

But while I was sitting down, I saw something that drove me crazy. Somebody'd written 'fuck you' on ...

I think the only reason I never lost my mind is that I knew I was innocent. That wasn't a happy thou...

A breeze ruffled the neat hedges of Privet Drive, which lay silent and tidy under the inky sky, the ...

The others cast themselves down upon the fragrant grass, but Frodo stood awhile still lost in wonder...

Travellers scowl at us, and countrymen give us scornful names. 'Strider' I am to one fat man who liv...

Nienor ran on into the woods until she was spent, and then fell, and slept, and awoke; and it was a ...

Children are meant to grow up, and not to become Peter Pans. Not to lose innocence and wonder, but t...

Who has believed in the world and died with its name on his lips?

There is no aphrodisiac like innocence

Whoever blushes is already guilty true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

She was fragile, gentle, wide awake in a sleeping world.

My innocence is not lost—it has been converted into wisdom. The sensation we call "breaking" is the ...

Betrayal converts our innocence to wisdom if we can let go of pain, bitterness, and fear and create ...

The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.

Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.

It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and cr...

Having a birthday cake squashed into your face by young kids? Delicious. I always don a Santa suit a...

The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly a...

Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction; it is, in great part, a protest...

The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves but who think others are.

The innocence of such children doesn't answer our deepest questions about this vale of tears to whic...

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...