Quotes About A Loss Of Innocence

#1. I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.

Bruce Springsteen

#2. Midlife crisis, it turns out, is much less about a loss of flesh and far more about a loss of innocence, the stripping-away of the illusion of choice and order.

Steve Ochs

#3. I wish him episodes of glorious, sun-washed tedium and a loss of innocence he will contemplate for the rest of his life.

Julie Schumacher

#4. To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of innocence, an act of aggression, a repetition of our Fall?

Emile M. Cioran

#5. A loss of sensibility follows a loss of innocence, at once a penalty and a compensation.

Dodie Smith

#6. The Summer of Love had already given way to the the winter of Who the f
k are you?

Jaffe Cohen

#7. It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out.

Tom Hiddleston

#8. 'Good Times' is a story about the loss of innocence, how adults are responsible for their actions but children aren't.

Lynda Barry

#9. I think the heartbreak of September 11 - America's grief not only over the loss of life but also the loss of our own innocence - has expanded us as people because it has tenderized our hearts. On a psychological level, the American people have matured as a result of that awful day.

Marianne Williamson

#10. The girl was holding out her hand, but I could only give a pathetic shrug. I had nothing to give her. I'd finally faded away.

Scott Heim

#11. Innocence could be lost more than once after all.

Selena Kitt

#12. I saw something I could never forget. I saw lifetimes of acknowledgement, fear, wisdom, questioning, and understanding in a child's eye. It was the worst thing I would ever witness.

Shannon A. Thompson

#13. Perhaps he simply assumed: a bitterness of habit, of boy after boy trained for music and medicine, and unleashed for murder.

Madeline Miller

#14. The child I was
is just one breath away from me.

Sheniz Janmohamed

#15. No acquisitions of guilt can compensate the loss of that solid inward comfort of mind, which is the sure companion of innocence and virtue; nor can in the least balance the evil of that horror and anxiety which, in their room, guilt introduces into our bosoms.

Henry Fielding

#16. The loss of innocence is the most severe of growing pains.

Tarryn Fisher

#17. One by one, drops fell from her eyes like they were on an assembly line - gather, fall, slide ... gather, fall, slide ... each one commemorating something she had lost. Hope. Faith. Confidence. Pride. Security. Trust. Independence. Joy. Beauty. Freedom. Innocence.

Lisi Harrison

#18. He wondered what his heart would look like if he could pluck it from his chest and inspect it.

David Estes

#19. Innocence is suffering
and the loss of that innocence
is something to fear.

Diane Wakoski

#20. This is what making love must be like, she thinks. At twelve years old, she understands little more than that it will begin with loss - the loss of virginity, the loss of innocence - but that at some point there stands to be a gain.

Sheri Holman

#21. I would certainly say that films like Time Code and the Loss of Sexual Innocence were far more rewarding to me in terms of being able to move forward as a filmmaker.

Mike Figgis

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

Jack Kerouac

#23. Grisha, a fat, solemn little person of seven, was standing by the kitchen door listening and peeping through the keyhole.

Anton Chekhov

#24. All the great words, it seemed to Connie were cancelled, for her generation: love, joy, happiness, home, mother, father, husband, all these great, dynamic words were half dead now and dying from day to day.

D.H. Lawrence

#25. I still remember the moment when my gaze fell upon the mutilated face of a young woman, her features slashed through with a bayonet. Soundlessly, and without fuss, some tender thing deep inside me broke. Something that, until then, I hadn't realised was there.

Han Kang

#26. Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it; when innocence and bold truth are always ready for expression.

William Congreve

#27. I was thinking of how, when we think of loss in our life, how our sense of 'home' was the first thing to go. You know, we lose that place of childhood innocence, of feeling protected. And so many of us spend the rest of our lives trying to reclaim that place called home, that life made simple again.

Tabitha Vohn

#28. I live with regrets - the bittersweet loss of innocence - the red track of the moon upon the lake - the inability to return and do it again ...

John Geddes

#29. Innocence is like youth,' he declared sadly, 'which is given to us only to expend and takes its very meaning from its loss.

John Barth

#30. Don't we all look back in longing, those of us who had happy childhoods? Because the greatest loss we ever know is not the loss of family or place or money, it is the loss of innocence. There is forever a hollow place in our hearts once we realize that darkness rings the campfire.

Carolyn Hart

#31. There is no place for innocence on the battlefield.

Jocelyn Murray

#32. A woman stood in front of her with the peculiar poise that comes before the discovery of age and after the loss of innocence.

Donald Kingsbury

#33. Something in me died at Peleliu. Perhaps it was the childish innocence that accepted as faith the claim that Man is basically good. Possibly I lost faith that politicians in high places, who do not have to endure war's savagery, will ever stop blundering and sending others to endure it.

Eugene B. Sledge

#34. Losing your innocence has very little to do with virginity, you know. Loss of innocence comes when you have to deal with the real world by yourself, when you learn that the first rule of life is kill or be killed. So different from one's nursery stories." She

Shirley Conran

#35. When you move so quickly from innocence to a world of fear, pain and loss, it's as if the flesh of your heart and mind gets cut away, piece by piece, like slices taken off a ham. Finally, there is nothing left but bone.

Leymah Gbowee

#36. Never mourn the loss of innocence, because it always brings the much greater gain of wisdom.

Erica Goros

#37. Adults have
the benefit of experience and know the trick will work as long as the technique is correct.
When we "grow up" we gain this experience and knowledge, but we lose our innocence and
sense of wonder. In other words, the price we pay for growing up is a permanent sense of
loss.

Alberto Alvaro Rios

#38. ... the fabric of family, the limits of love, the loss of innocence and the birth of knowledge.

Betty Smith

#39. Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

W.B.Yeats

#40. Those who will never be fooled can never be delighted, because without self-forgetfulness there can be no delight, and this is a great and grievous loss.

Alan Jacobs

#41. Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#42. He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.

Cormac McCarthy

#43. Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.

Denis Diderot

#44. The loss of innocence, and the arrival of knowingness, can become an addiction.

Charles Baxter

#45. For a hunter, her shields were surprisingly weak, as if she somehow still saw innocence in the world.
Then she will kill you. She will make you mortal.
Was it not worth the loss of a little immortality to have that strange mix of innocence and strength close to him?

Nalini Singh

#46. Rachel found herself wishing that the week would never end-that her father could stay here forever-but knew he couldn't. If there was one thing she had learned in her brief time at Kalaupapa, it was that all things end.

Alan Brennert

#47. he realized with a shock that the loss of innocence never stopped happening, that he was still losing it, that it was like a wound that never healed, and he would probably go on losing it, drop by drop, until the day he died.

Peter Robinson

#48. But shouldn't they still act like children? They aren't normal. They act like
history. Napoleon and Wellington. Caesar and Brutus.

Orson Scott Card

#49. You lost your innocence when you grew up, all right, everyone knew that, but did you have to lose your hope, as well?

Stephen King

#50. I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.

Steve Toltz

#51. Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.

Anthony Horowitz

#52. I don't have any first times left ... I hope that's OK.

Jay Bell

#53. The loss of innocence is inevitable, but the death of innocence disturbs the natural order. The death of innocence causes an imbalance and initiates an internal war that manifests differently in each individual, but almost always includes anger, withdrawal and severe depression.

B.G. Bowers

#54. One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.

Jodi Picoult