Innocence Quotes · Page 18

Survivors are so often re-victimized by a system that demands they prove their purity and innocence.

— Lena Dunham

Sometimes a certain innocence is good, but not about yourself.

— Christopher Walken

“To an atheist all writings tend to atheism: he corrupts the most innocent matter with his own venom.”

— Michel de Montaigne

Sincerity with innocence, though cute, though it makes good movies, makes for very bad government.

— Michael Capuano

How beautiful is sorrow when it is dressed by virgin innocence! it makes felicity in others seem deformed.

— William Davenant

If blue is dream what then innocence? What awaits the heart if Love bears no arrows?

— Federico Garcia Lorca

You can't run away. And the innocence you spoiled, Found a way to live. Im not Jesus. I will not forgive…

— CTate

It's only in innocence you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.

— Sean Penn

You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she…

— Lionel Shriver

We drank a toast to innocence, we drank a toast to now. And tried to reach beyond the emptiness, but neither one…

— Dan Fogelberg

In the land of Gods and Monsters I was an Angel Living in the garden of evil Screwed up, scared, doing anything…

— Lana Del Rey

Everyone has the heartbreak that shapes them in a way that they could never go back to the innocence that they had…

— Zooey Deschanel

One trembles to think of that mysterious thing in the soul, which seems to acknowledge no human jurisdiction, but in spite of…

— Herman Melville

To become truly immortal a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once…

— Giorgio de Chirico

Will I ever get back to the innocence that I once knew before that summer turned into fall? But when I close…

— Alla

“Say what you will, dear sister, we do what we do for the promise of our youth. Yet it is always they…

— Chris Galford

Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day…

— Albert Camus

I was taught to lie at a young age. . . . I think that [A PARK IN OUR HOUSE] describes what…

— Nilo Cruz

Sometimes I'll be sitting with my friends; I'll say something Koothrappali-esque and make a face. There is a lot of Koothrappali in…

— Kunal Nayyar

We are born in innocence. ... Corruption comes later. The first fear is a corruption, the first reaching for something that defies…

— Laura Z. Hobson

I can't remember coming across a more precise evocation of innocence lost since Golding's The Lord of the Flies. With The Death…

— Dennis Lehane

Writing itself, if not misunderstood and abused, becomes a way of empowering the writing self. It converts anger and disappointment into deliberate…

— Ted Solotaroff

The Puritan, of course, is not entirely devoid of aesthetic feeling. He has a taste for good form; he responds to style;…

— H. L. Mencken

Fear, if it be not immoderate, puts a guard about us that does watch and defend us; but credulity keeps us naked,…

— Owen Feltham

I do feel that softness for the vulnerability and the innocence in our world, including my own.

— Jane Lynch

Once a child is confronted with the concept of death there's a certain innocence that goes.

— Patsy Kensit

Back then they had Elvis and they thought Elvis was so risqué. So everyone has their perception to what innocence is.

— Josh Brolin

The trust I have is in mine innocence, and therefore am I bold and resolute.

— William Shakespeare

It is Australian innocence to love The naturally excessive and be proud Of a thoroughbred gelding who ran fast.

— Peter Porter

“But there was something so admirable about her innocence that he would not insult her by tarnishing it.”

— Eve Edwards

I want to savor the aging process. As you get older, you trade your innocence for wisdom and the wisdom is your…

— Kathy Mattea

“But she'd lost a good deal of her innocence there, because she'd discovered so much she couldn't control.”

— Lorraine Heath

“To express nostalgia for a childhood we no longer share is to deny the actual significance and humanity of children.”

— Perry Nodelman

a loss of sensibility follows a loss of innocence, at once a penalty and a compensation.

— Dodie Smith

We all have that friend that acts innocent but understands all the dirty jokes.

— Anonymous

There is no courage but in innocence; no constancy but in an honest cause.

— Thomas Southerne

I set my heart out to prove my innocence by any means necessary.

— Brian Banks

I am as innocent regarding any conspiracy as any of you gentlemen in the room.

— Jack Ruby

We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness.

— Katherine Dunn

Only her death could prove her innocence; a circle of impossible, deathly judgement.

— Alice Hoffman