Innocence Quotes · Page 10

The artificial is always innocent.

— Frank O'Hara

The innocence of youth needs protection, not abuse.

— Bad Religion

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

— William Congreve

“Innocence to experience. Human nature, baby. Grab it and growl.”

— Stephen King

We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children.

— Ricardo Lagos

His eyes were dimmed with tears and, looking humbly up to heaven, he wept for the innocence he had lost.

— James Joyce

“Be matured but not to a such extent that ruins your smile & innocence.”

— Abhishek Rai

Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.

— Maximilien Robespierre

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

— Susan Sontag

Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it.

— James A. Baldwin

“Why is it acceptable to do such horrible things in the name of staying alive? Would it not have been better had…

— Michel Templet

“He seemed even younger now, as though he were traveling backwards in time, in his mind, or merely becoming innocent, as if…

— Anne Rice

An audience sabotages my freedom, devastates my innocence, corrupts my integrity, inhibits my great joy - and of course gives me further…

— Selima Hill

If you want, then start to laugh, If you must, then start to cry, Be yourself don't hide Just believe in destiny.…

— Michael Cretu

I think the thing that strikes you when you come back to 'The Little Mermaid' after all of these years is the…

— Alan Menken

Children, Never look Back!" and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory . for…

— Milan Kundera

“I feel more human when I compare the cuteness of a lizard to a newborn child's sweetness. Both are God's creations filled…

— Munia Khan

You get the feeling that childhood does not last as long as it used to. Innocence gets harder to hold on to…

— Martin Amis

I am sorry they began their deliberations by so abominable a precedent as that of tying up the tongues of their members.…

— Thomas Jefferson

Zen says that if you drop knowledge - and within knowledge everything is included; your name, your identity, everything, because this has…

— Rajneesh

People say you're born innocent, but it's not true. You inherit all kinds of things that you can do nothing about. You…

— Hugo Hamilton

“Though I myself have come to this safe harbour – if safety can be found in this life – yet I mourn…

— K.W. Jeter

“I don’t have a philosophy: I have senses... If I talk about Nature, it’s not because I know what it is, But…

— Alberto Caeiro

“The flowered trim on the hems [of the dress] seemed superfluous, even frivolous, but at the same time it comforted her, as…

— Gael Baudino

“...I'm a fool. I expect too much, then I'm angry because nothing ever works out the way I want. When I was…

— V.C. Andrews

“A breeze ruffled the neat hedges of Privet Drive, which lay silent and tidy under the inky sky, the very last place…

— J.K. Rowling

“The weakness then of infant limbs, not its will, is its innocence.”

— Augustine of Hippo

Begin building the future through "conversation for possibility."

— Werner Erhard

We are told, that the black bear is innocent; but I should not like to trust myself with him.

— Samuel Johnson

Every girls first love is full of innocence, But it is her misfortune that her lover just wants to use her.

— Mak_786

Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.

— Louis Kronenberger

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.

— John Updike

[On the Adam and Eve story:] They both fell from innocence, and consequently from happiness, but not from equality.

— Sarah Moore Grimke

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

— Germaine Greer

A white male child of perfect innocence and intelligence makes the most suitable victim.

— Aleister Crowley

You might call this innocence. I had a sense of another world that had not been spoken of to me.

— Quentin S. Crisp

Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.

— Antonin Scalia

Born with innocence and grew with curiosity, this is a man's circle of life.

— Mega

There are times where excessive innocence seems so monstrous that it becomes hateful.

— Gaston Leroux

In innocence there is no strength against evil, said Sparrowhawk, a little wryly. But there is strength in it for good.

— Ursula K. Le Guin