Innocence Quotes · Page 16

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

— Mega

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

— Aleister Crowley

[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

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

— John Updike

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

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

— Samuel Johnson

I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies.

— Jack Vance

There was no more good or evil in this world than we imagine there to be, either out of greed or out…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Many may very well continue to ask why more value is placed on technicalities of a law than on a man's flesh…

— Aberjhani

I enjoyed the innocence of unhappiness and of helplessness; could I blame myself for a sin which attracted me, which flooded me…

— Georges Bataille

Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his…

— Seneca the Younger

“It is only in the peach innocence of youth that life is at its crest on top of the wheel. And there…

— Roman Payne

There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well…

— Immanuel Kant

Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.

— Anonymous

The way in which we manage the business of getting and spending is closely tied to our personal philosophy of living. We…

— Catherine Crook de Camp

It would be well, perhaps, if we were to spend more of our days and nights without any obstruction between us and…

— Henry David Thoreau

...they come to us, these restless dead, Shrouds woven from the words of men, With trumpets sounding overhead (The walls of hope…

— Mira Grant

The genius of American culture and its integrity comes from fidelity to the light. Plain as day, we say. Happy as the…

— Richard Rodriguez

I think the heartbreak of September 11 - America's grief not only over the loss of life but also the loss of…

— Marianne Williamson

“In Richard’s arms, breathing in the warmth of his body, is the closest I’ve ever found to my mother’s arms. It isn’t…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

The alcoholic trance is not just a haze, as though the eyes were also unshaven. It is not a mere buzzing in…

— William H. Gass

The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet, challenging us to be true to ourselves by…

— Benjamin Cardozo

Begin building the future through "conversation for possibility."

— Werner Erhard

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

— James A. Baldwin

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

— Augustine of Hippo

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

— Susan Sontag

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

— Ricardo Lagos

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

— Abhishek Rai

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

— James Joyce

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

— Maximilien Robespierre

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

— Stephen King

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

— William Congreve

The greater our innocence, the greater our strength and the swifter our victory

— Mahatma Gandhi

“A child's innocence is the one gift, that once stolen, can never be replaced.”

— Jaeda DeWalt

I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there.

— Donna Tartt

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

— Jael McHenry

Stay out of the court of self-judgment, for there is no presumption of innocence.

— Anonymous

“The morning Mom tells me my skirt is too short, I find the lawn full of dead fledglings.”

— Kyle Labe