“The way to innocence, to the uncreated and to God leads on, not back, not back to the wolf or to the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Liberate yourselves from everything you know and look with complete innocence at this infinitely improbable thing before you. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
We come this way but once. We can either tiptoe through life and hope we get to death without being badly bruised… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
The innocence of children is their wisdom, the simplicity of children is their egolessness. The freshness of the child is the freshness… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“It is difficult to frighten those who are easily astonished; ignorance causes fearlessness. Children have so little claim on hell, that if… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Animals have this way of constantly confronting us with ultimate questions - about truth and falsehood, guilt and innocence, God and sanctity… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
One of the things I loved about my childhood was that I didn't feel like I lost my innocence too young, like… — Danielle de Niese Copy Share Image
“But it is not permissible that the authors of devastation should also be innocent. It is the innocence which constitutes the crime.” — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In Homer and Chaucer there is more of the innocence and serenity of youth than in the more modern and moral poets.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“It's funny because when you're a child, you believe you can be anything you want to be, go wherever you want to… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
Between the innocence of boyhood and the dignity of manhood, we find a delightful creature called a boy…A boy is truth with… — Alan Beck Copy Share Image
There are no moments more painful for a parent than those in which you contemplate your child's perfect innocence of some imminent… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Drink has shed more blood, hung more crepe, sold more homes, plunged more people into bankruptcy, armed more villains, slain more children,… — Evangeline Booth Copy Share Image
The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Dantes passed through all the stages of torture natural to prisoners in suspense. He was sustained at first by that pride of… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“There are many more layers to innocence than one might ever imagine, and we are ever unaware of them until each barrier… — Paula Reed Copy Share Image
“The dead are mute, but the living still have voice with which to protest their innocence. Often their objections are noisy and… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
Innocence is always the state of being untouched. Sometimes it's synonymous with virginity, so sometimes it's quite literal, but sometimes it's more… — Molly Crabapple Copy Share Image
The world ridicules a passion which it seldom feels; its scenes, and its interests, distract the mind, deprave the taste, corrupt the… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
O God, I love you to the edge of madness, Venetia, but I'm not mad yet--not so mad that I don't know… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
I once loved a girl, her skin it was bronze With the innocence of a lamb, she was gentle like a fawn… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Fundamental protections, the assumption of innocence, trial by jury, and the right to appear before a court have all been sacrificed on… — Jacob Rees-Mogg Copy Share Image
There's a beauty in that innocence that comes from not knowing. It allowed me to take a lot of risks and I… — Rachel Roy Copy Share Image
“Most of the songs were based round the theme of lost innocence and as that's precisely what we were experiencing at the… — Nicky Wire Copy Share Image
Most men die many times in their lives. The man we become invariably slaughters the child we once were. His knowledge of… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence--an exemption granted only to invariable virtue. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“He was never entirely sure what financial services meant. It seemed to cover a spectrum from innocent to guilty and then extremely… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Wisdom has nothing to do with knowledge, not at all; it has something to do with innocence. Something of the purity of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The human body represents to me the same universal innocence, timelessness and purity of all seed pods, suggesting the mother as well… — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The innocence of such children doesn't answer our deepest questions about this vale of tears to which we are condemned, but it… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
'The Museum of Innocence' is not about politics; it's a love story, but I think it's political in the sense that it… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“Lift up your eyes from your books, from your past, from your hurts and look upon all people with love, because when… — Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D Copy Share Image
The innocent one is he who does not explain, for whom life is both a mystery and a total light, one who… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
If there's anything to learn from the history of movies, it's that corruption leads to further corruption, not to innocence. — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
I would love to be fooled. The innocence of child for the first time, seeing something and being in wonder is something… — Criss Angel Copy Share Image
No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
