Innocence Quotes

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 ...

In an age of iPhones and Playstations, it's great to see that somebody's still rocking the bus-on-a-...

I don’t know,” Mark said, looking down at his own long pale fingers tangled in the little boy’s brow...

you boys can keep your virgins give me hot old women in high heels with asses that forgot to get old...

I'm not...' Angharad began, but then she thought. Not what? Not a bad person? Perhaps. But had she n...

I have been wrongly accused; and you, ma'am, and everybody else, will now think me wicked.""We shall...

If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and ab...

He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it...

Thus the Government of our Virtue was broken and I exchang'd the Place of Friend for that unmusical ...

Then Deborah stood at the wicket gate, the boundary, and there was a woman with outstretched hand, d...

I know that age, it's a particularly obstinate one, and a thousand bogies won't make you fear the fu...

I never, even for a moment, doubted what they’d told me. This is why it is that adults and even pare...

...he looked as if nothing hard in the world had touched him...

His resiliency was not the resiliency of the dumb but of a lamb who can remember hurt but cannot sus...

In a universe in which past, present, and future came into existence all at once, complete from begi...

Initially the snow had been beautiful, but not so much now. The softness and sparkle still charmed, ...

Anyway, in those years, I was happy, as to one extent or another I have always been happy. The fores...

She blinked, sat up, and saw Chris in the bathroom doorway. He'd just gotten out the shower. His hai...

To protect the innocent, to avoid being one of Burke's good men who do nothing, you have to accept p...

Chronologically she is twelve, but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still.

Parker looked distressed. He had confidence in Wimsey's judgment, and, in spite of his own interior ...

I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of...

If the Holy Communion touched my teeth, I thought that was a mortal sin

No parson in the world ever pictured heaven so beautifully as they did, in their innocent talk

Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of coward...

Most of us hoped to be able to trust. When we were little we did not yet know the human invention of...

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple...

Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple...

No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It's the most important thing.

I had the same sensation as when we watch someone sleep. When asleep we all become children again. P...

The really pure in heart know nothing of what goes on around them each day, each night; never realiz...

There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one d...

The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a self-rolling wheel, a first moveme...

The solid earth sways like the treacherous sea beneath the feet of men and spirits alike when the in...

We're children. We're supposed to be childish.

Innocence and experience make for a perfect marriage.

We Lannisters do have a certain pride," said Tyrion Lannister.“Pride?” Catelyn snapped. His mocking ...

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

There are innumerable ways to murder a person, but the most subtle and pernicious of these is to mut...

Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fl...

Innocence must die young if it isn't to kill the souls of men

Why do we have this desire to tease the innocent? Is it envy?

That was my first instinct -- to protect him. It never occurred to me that there was a greater need ...

They killed him because he was too innocent to live. He was young and ignorant and silly and he got ...

Innocence is a kind of insanity

Scout- .. Uncle Jack?"Uncle Jack- "Ma'am?"Scout- "What's a whore-lady?

But in the absence of eye-witness there's always a doubt, sometimes only the shadow of a doubt. The ...

They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children w...

There were times he thought it would have been far better to never have known. Yet he continued to r...