Innocence is suffering and the loss of that innocence is…

“The moment you killed something – a living creature or a false hope – was the moment you came of age. Loss of innocence…

— Jennifer Miller

“The loss of innocence, and the arrival of knowingness, can become an addiction.”

— Charles Baxter

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…

— Carolyn Hart

[Ending] is partly drawn from a desire to shock the audience, to brutally de-romanticize what many Americans think is happening overseas. And partly drawn…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

“So the city became the material expression of a particular loss of innocence – not sexual or political innocence but somehow a shared dream…

— Thomas Pynchon

“This is what making love must be like, she thinks. At twelve years old, she understands little more than that it will begin with…

— Sheri Holman

So the city became the material expression of a particular loss of innocence – not sexual or political innocence but somehow a shared dream…

— Thomas Pynchon

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…

— Bruce Springsteen

But in practice, if often comes down to not suffering a loss as big as the huge gain you made a while ago.

— Merton Miller

I cannot, will not, withhold from my young readers the harsh realities of human hunger and suffering and loss, but neither will I neglect…

— Katherine Paterson

He was suffering from the loss of an illusion.

— Rafael Sabatini

I've had my share, less than so many though, but enough to feel empathy. It's tough and I see it so much on Earth,…

— Kristin Bauer van Straten

“kehilangan itu seharusnya terasa membahagiakan. karena setelah kehilangan, barulah terasa betapa besar cinta itu ada di sana. suffering from loss should have been bringing…

— neo wasiman

You'd have thought that after suffering such a loss nothing else would matter to her but that didn't seem to be how it worked.…

— Mary Lawson

Let it go,it wasn't your fault,there are many fish in the sea,you'll find someone,he/she isn't worth it,it's his/her loss... if only they knew the…

— Jacob Thompson