Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence…

“Innocence isn't a set of house keys. You don't just up and lose it one day. It's a process.”

— Jael McHenry

“He represents innocence, and innocence has taken such a profound battering in our times. We have mocked it. We have sullied it. We have…

— Alexander McCall Smith

I forget nothing and then, one day, there will be revenge. Innocence isn't exactly everywhere. But I will say innocence also takes you far…

— Karl Lagerfeld

That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

She smiled at the stars like they knew all her secrets

— Anonymous

I first foreswore motherhood when I was about eight years old. ... [Children] were annoying. We were loud and sneaky and broke things. As…

— Lionel Shriver

For a moment, I thought of the word happy and it was a word that just, well, it felt like it was visiting me.…

— Benjamin Alire Saenz

When your happy you enjoy music but when your sad, you understand the lyrics

— Levita Charin

Having emotional connections to things that don't really exist, like looking at a green ball and really loving that green ball, and being sad…

— Shia LaBeouf

Essentially, if our secrets are secrets because we are told to be ashamed, then we must share them. There is no shame in being…

— Warsan Shire

Being sad is a big waste of time

— Anonymous

because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same…

— Sylvia Plath

It's, like, you know, if you're sad, it's a way of connecting with other people. And we - a lot of times we sort…

— Pete Docter

The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.

— Winston Churchill

Unfortunately, I think I'm going to be typecast in Hollywood as the kid who can cry. I don't like putting audiences through those emotional…

— Dana Hill