Top 100 Quotes About Innocence
#1. A fall from great innocence
hurts the most to know
that you are now
tainted
Anastasia Wild
#2. Esteem for the army - never in this country regarded, in the continental manner, as a popular expression of the national will - implies a kind of innocence.
Anthony Powell
#3. Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.
Alice Thomas Ellis
#5. While the innocent yearned to lose their innocence, those who had already done so in turn envied the innocent, and knew grief in what they had lost. Between the two, no exchange of truths was possible.
Steven Erikson
#6. O blissful poverty!
Nature, too partial! to thy lot assigns
Health, freedom, innocence, and downy peace,
Her real goods; and only mocks the great,
With empty pageantries!
Elijah Fenton
#7. Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.
Mason Cooley
#8. It is Australian innocence to love The naturally excessive and be proud Of a thoroughbred gelding who ran fast.
Peter Porter
#9. Young children see the innocence of life, while some adults live in innocence.
Jan Jansen
#10. The problem is that those who insist on their innocence believe anything they do is just.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#11. I turned my face away. She should not act thus. She ought
not to excite my imagination with such displays of heavenly
innocence and happiness, nor awaken my heart from its slumbers,
in which it dreams of the worthlessness of life!
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#12. An indiscriminate distrust of human nature is the worst consequence of a miserable condition, whether brought about by innocence or guilt. And though want of suspicion more than want of sense, sometimes leads a man into harm; yet too much suspicion is as bad as too little sense.
Herman Melville
#13. 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
#14. A person's innocence is precious and beautiful and when you share that piece of yourself, in my opinion, it's supposed to mean something.
Lauren Hammond
#15. I project a definite innocence. A lot of that is just the way I grew up.
River Phoenix
#16. Vengeance took no account of innocence or right. It was the chain that bound horrific events together, that decreed that one awful act must beget another worse one that would lead to yet a third. It came to me, slowly, that this chain would never end.
Robin Hobb
#17. But we ourselves would not be alive if some innocent Being had not first seen us. That was the act that planted the seed of the whole universe, and it was an act of love. You will know your own innocence again when you can see the love that breathes within every iota of creation.
Deepak Chopra
#18. There is an innocence in the very word "afternoon." Morning is for trains and business and hangovers, night is for love and burglary. The afternoon is the halcyon, the calm between earnestness and drama.
Adam Hall
#19. If blue is dream
what then innocence?
What awaits the heart
if Love bears no arrows?
Federico Garcia Lorca
#20. The resurrection is to be like a child, but with a difference. The difference is that we have freedom with wisdom instead of innocence.
Miguel Ruiz
#21. Children, Never look Back! and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory . for children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles.
Milan Kundera
#22. An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul air of his innocence, even if it did wilt rows of angel trumpets and cause them to fall from their vines.
Toni Morrison
#24. Your own innocence is the only flower that exists. It never fades, and because of that, the world never fades either.
Deepak Chopra
#25. People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#26. His eyes were dimmed with tears, and, looking humbly up to heaven, he wept for the innocence he had lost.
James Joyce
#27. Behind innocence there gathers a clotted mass of superstition, of twisted and misdirected impulse; clandestine flirtation, fads, and ragtime fill the unventilated mind.
Walter Lippmann
#28. Innocence does not protect you from the evil designs of others.
Frederick Lenz
#29. There is an earned innocence, I believe, which is as much to be honored as the innocence of children.
Marilynne Robinson
#30. Innocence as we understand it in our culture is very theatrical. The flip side is, if you're charming enough, you can get away with anything.
Susan Choi
#32. Knowledge burnished through suffering becomes wisdom, which eventually opens into the calling to return in innocence to simple harmony.
Darrell Calkins
#33. As for the charm and innocence I hoped to find -- it exists, it really does, but consider what it's buried in. Racism. Misogyny and homophobia so absolute as to be nearly universal. Hatred of the Irish, the Italians, the Chinese -- not that many of them are seen in these parts
Robert Charles Wilson
#34. The great sadness," Helms said in an oral history recorded for the LBJ Library, "was our ignorance - or innocence, if you like - which led us to mis-assess, not comprehend, and make a lot of wrong decisions.
Tim Weiner
#35. Once a child is confronted with the concept of death there's a certain innocence that goes.
Patsy Kensit
#36. When you first take someone's life, two people die. The person you just killed and the human
being you used to be. You're never the same after that - it changes you forever and not in a good way
- and no matter how hard you try, you can't go back to the innocence you had. Ever.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#37. Knowledge is always worth more than innocence. Or ignorance.
Lisa Cach
#38. She was as beautiful as the Madonna statue they kept in the church. Her beauty went so much deeper than her face or body; it was a manifestation of her innocence, the sweetness she showed everyone, the steadfast loyalty that she gave to others even though it had never been given to her.
Nicole Jacquelyn
#39. For I had expected always
Some brightness to hold in trust,
Some final innocence
To save from dust
Stephen Spender
#40. A lot of children grow up in poverty with flawed parents, but their inner world is still as inherently filled with wonder and innocence as children who are kept away from the city's underbelly.
Heather O'Neill
#41. Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.
Anita Brookner
#42. Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.
Lewis H. Lapham
#43. Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.
Jeanette Winterson
#44. [On the Adam and Eve story:] They both fell from innocence, and consequently from happiness, but not from equality.
Sarah Moore Grimke
#45. Every creative act involves a new innocence or perception, liberated from the cataract of accepted belief.
Arthur Koestler
#46. I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.
Donna Tartt
#47. In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.
Michael Jackson
#48. Parents don't want their children to lose that purity and innocence of childhood. We want to bottle that and hold onto that, but it's impossible.
Pete Docter
#49. There's something about seeing people when they have just wake up
before they have a chance to put on the face they show everyone else. There's like this last hint of innocence.
Robin Brande
#50. They say that rape is the only crime in which the victim has to prove her innocence. And I want you to know, I believe in your innocence. You don't have to prove anything to me.
Alina Klein
#51. A creativity that comes out of meditative innocence, of meditative purity. And a real creator is possible only through meditation.
Rajneesh
#52. The idea of Original Sin - of guilt where there is no possibility of innocence, no freedom of choice, no alternatives available - is anti-self-esteem by its very nature. The very notion of guilt without volition or responsibility is an assault on reason as well as on morality.
Nathaniel Branden
#54. If we let go of guilt, we will see innocence; however, a guilt-ridden person will see only evil. The basic rule is that we focus on what we have repressed.
David R. Hawkins
#55. We would be a few years younger,if every day we meditated for five minutes on the meanings of the word innocence.
Alexandra Vasiliu
#56. Ah yes, the paradox of publicity is that even as we do it, we know it's killing off the chance of another reader happening across our book in the ideal state of innocence.
Emma Donoghue
#57. We call for the three great stimulants of the exhausted ones, artifice, brutality, and innocence.
Joni Mitchell
#58. Better for the judge to see my innocence than for me to think I see it. It is very comfortable for me to know that I am one of God's people - but whether I know it or not, if the Lord knows it,
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#59. When someone comes forward and is an individual, such as a Lady Gaga or a Katy Perry, people respond to them because there is that sense of innocence. It's obviously dress up and theatre.
Brad Goreski
#60. We play the game of the adults, we play the game of the outside Dream, and we lose. We lose our innocence, we lose our freedom, we lose our happiness, and we lose our tendency to love.
Miguel Ruiz
#61. People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
Barney Frank
#62. His sense of "justice" had been hard tempered by his sense of law enforcement; a perfect way to reverse the presumption of innocence.
Kenneth Eade
#63. Beck's smile is intense and sincere, a smile with, not a smile at. Mom used to say you could tell a lot by the way a person treats the innocent, and Walt is nothing if not innocence personified.
David Arnold
#64. Innocence still lives within our hearts and the child within us still knows right from wrong. Instead of connecting with ugliness; connect with beauty. Take great care with what you put into both your mind and body - your health and well-being are at a tremendous risk.
Bryant McGill
#65. servomechanism in which a moral vacuum had been so successfully sucked clean of every molecule of real qualm or scruple that his own descriptions of the unutterable crimes he perpetrated daily seem often to float outside and apart from evil, phantasms of cretinous innocence. Yet
William Styron
#66. How could he maintain the apology in his eyes without getting carried away by her cherubic innocence?
Faraaz Kazi
#67. Youthful dreams are precious things. They ought not to be dashed as foolish and unrealistic just because they are young dreams. Innocence ought not to be destroyed from any callous conviction that a realistic sort of cynicism is better.
Mary Balogh
#68. When children's innocence is used as a tactic to suppress queer adults, readers need to resist, not children, but those who conscript children to fight their own ideological agendas.
Tison Pugh
#69. Alexander, my nights, my days, my every thought. You will fall away from me in just a while, won't you, and I'll be whole again, and I will go on and feel for someone else, the way everybody does.
But my innocence is gone forever.
Paullina Simons
#70. Be matured but not to a such extent that ruins your smile & innocence.
Abhishek Rai
#71. Crime like virtue has its degrees; and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license.
Jean Racine
#72. Isn't beer the holy libation of sincerity? the potion that dispels all hypocrisy, any charade of fine manners? the drink that does nothing worse than incite its fans to urinate in all innocence, to gain weight in all frankness?
Milan Kundera
#73. Whenever the cadaverous Home Office security supervisor became involved in their affairs, babies cried, women cowered, innocence was punished and blame was wrongly apportioned.
Christopher Fowler
#74. You know you've found love when they have: a smile that melts you, an innocence that soothes, a presences that glows and a trust in them that grows. - For Lydia
Kieran Harper
#75. Not even the brightest future can make up for the fact that no roads lead back to what came before - to the innocence of childhood or the first time we fell in love.
Jo Nesbo
#76. Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
Samuel Butler
#77. She waited uneasily and shyly. From afar he saw that her eyes
clearly her father's
were filled with desperate innocence. He pictured, in her, his own redemption. Violins and lit candles revolved in the sky. Leo ran forward with flowers out-thrust.
Bernard Malamud
#78. I felt sort of sad that I couldn't remember the last time, before tonight, that I'd paid such close attention to the sky. It felt like that must be some kind of sign that I'd lost my innocence and grown up without even realizing it.
Tara Altebrando
#79. Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixture of more happy days!
Lord Byron
#80. Innocence had nothing to do with the state of her virginity but with the state of her heart. A woman could screw a thousand men, and if she still was able to love, she could hold her innocence in her soul.
Sophie Oak
#81. Their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and enter the souls of animals.
Mark Helprin
#82. Is there innocence in ignorance? And if there is, do we tolerate other for their innocence's sake?
Claire North
#83. No one ever said you've got to prepare to be hated. You've got to prepare for the yelling and the anger. You have got to prepare how to survive being the guilty one, even in innocence.
Tiffany McDaniel
#84. Christ is the very epitome of innocence, and without the blood of Christ, shed on Calvary, God's plan of salvation would not have been fulfilled.
Alan Keyes
#85. Choices, more choices than we like afterward to believe, are made far backward in the innocence of childhood.
Loren Eiseley
#86. I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.
Franz Kafka
#87. By skilfully training a hunting animal, by closely associating with it, by identifying with it, you might be allowed to experience all your vital, sincere desires, even your most bloodthirsty ones, in total innocence. You could be true to yourself.
Helen Macdonald
#89. Innocence is the one thing you can't re-create, can only parody.
Andrew Smith
#90. Mind is repetitive, mind always moves in circles. Mind is a mechanism: you feed it with knowledge, it repeats the same knowledge, it goes on chewing the same knowledge again and again. No-mind is clarity, purity, innocence. No-mind is the real way to live, the real way to know, the real way to be.
Rajneesh
#91. To be a writer you need to see things as they are, and to see things as they are you need a certain basic innocence.
Tobias Wolff
#92. Your innocence is on at such a rakish angle it gives you quite an air of iniquity.
Christopher Fry
#93. We became so emotionally entwined that small concerns like our total innocence became what they should have always been - enhancements to our lives rather than detriments.
Shawn Inmon
#94. Money and beauty are defenses against the sorrows of this world but neither can undo the past. Only time will conquer time. The way forward is the only way back to innocence and to peace.
Dean Koontz
#95. Those who judge children in their innocence, prove themselves the lesser of character and the greater of ignorance.
Wes Fesler
#96. This is because he has in his heart a pearl, innocence; and pearls are not to be dissolved in mud. So long as man is in his childhood, God wills that he shall be innocent.
Victor Hugo
#97. I was a nursery school teacher, and I worked with youth groups. I loved that job. It was exhausting, but you got a lot back - all their purity and insight and innocence is so on the surface, and they're so unrepressed; they'd really scream at you and then give you a massive kiss.
Bat For Lashes
#98. She has the fascinating tyranny of youth, and the astonishing courage of innocence.
Oscar Wilde
#99. Collapse begins at this paradoxical point: the reiteration of a metanarrative of heroism and innocence ceases to be essential to sustain global normative structures at the moment its use becomes ubiquitous.
Stephen Hopgood
#100. Is that even legal in this country?" "Don't know." Nick looked at him, all innocence and angel wings with those lifted eyebrows. "I may have neglected to declare them at customs. Got them at a specialist event.
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