“the fabric of family, the limits of love, the loss of innocence and the birth of knowledge.” — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Never mourn the loss of innocence, because it always brings the much greater gain of wisdom.” — Erica Goros Copy Share Image
I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential. — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
'Good Times' is a story about the loss of innocence, how adults are responsible for their actions but children aren't. — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
“Grisha, a fat, solemn little person of seven, was standing by the kitchen door listening and peeping through the keyhole.” — Anton Pavlovich Chejov Copy Share Image
a loss of sensibility follows a loss of innocence, at once a penalty and a compensation. — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“The loss of innocence, and the arrival of knowingness, can become an addiction.” — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
“Most of the songs were based round the theme of lost innocence and as that's precisely what we were experiencing at the… — Nicky Wire Copy Share Image
I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“He noticed, without understanding, how the flames were visible now against the dull light. Evening was come, not with calm beauty but… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“The moment you killed something – a living creature or a false hope – was the moment you came of age. Loss… — Jennifer Miller Copy Share Image
“This is what making love must be like, she thinks. At twelve years old, she understands little more than that it will… — Sheri Holman Copy Share Image
“It has to do with me because it has to do with you," Young says, his voice dropping. "Jaewon-ah, we've been friends… — Axie Oh Copy Share Image
“But shouldn't they still act like children? They aren't normal. They act like--history. Napoleon and Wellington. Caesar and Brutus.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I think that when you emigrate, when everything you took for granted disappears, it's a kind of loss of innocence. When you're… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
“So the city became the material expression of a particular loss of innocence – not sexual or political innocence but somehow a… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“The loss of innocence is inevitable, but the death of innocence disturbs the natural order. The death of innocence causes an imbalance… — B.G. Bowers Copy Share Image
“He remembered a version of himself untrammeled by expectation, unimpeded by Ego. He had suffered in the many years since then, seeking… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
Don't we all look back in longing, those of us who had happy childhoods? Because the greatest loss we ever know is… — Carolyn Hart Copy Share Image
I was taught to lie at a young age. . . . I think that [A PARK IN OUR HOUSE] describes what… — Nilo Cruz Copy Share Image
“The child identifies with the parent who has been betrayed because he is suffering immeasurable loss as well—the loss of trust in… — Ana Nogales Copy Share Image
“More than anything, Natalie wanted to move to the bed, take Sophie's hand, sit beside her.Lay her head against her shoulder. But… — Glen Hirshberg Copy Share Image
“I feel sorry for people who maintain relationships and friendships detrimental to their mental health. Everyone is guilty of it at one… — Tiffany Luard Copy Share Image
“When it first appeared, in 1943, it was called, by those critics who liked it, an honest book, and that is accurate… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
Mama and dada, mommy and daddy, mother and father, or mom and dad, it seems as though the names for parents embark… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When the fight ends you can afford to relax. That’s the worst part. Winner or loser you have again eyes to see… — Florian Armas Copy Share Image
“Of all her putative fathers -- Max Schlepzig and masked extras on one side of the moving film, Franz Pökler and certainly… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“ The Summer of Love had already given way to the the winter of Who the f--k are you? ” — Jaffe Cohen Copy Share Image
“I was still sitting in childhood when the darkness spoke to me.” — Angelika Regossi Copy Share Image
“And when the clouds do clear away Get a momentary chance to see The thing I've been trying to beat to death… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if there is a cultural loss of innocence specifically associated with the seventies. The oil crisis? The Watergate scandal?… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
“All the great words, it seemed to Connie were cancelled, for her generation: love, joy, happiness, home, mother, father, husband, all these… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
“...I live with regrets - the bittersweet loss of innocence - the red track of the moon upon the lake - the… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“I no longer believe that people are born without virtue. It gets beaten out. Misfortune threshes our souls as a flail threshes… — Danielle Teller Copy Share Image
“No mi kršćani upućeni smo po središtu našega Creda - 'mučen pod Poncijem Pilatom' - u povijest u kojoj je bilo razapinjanja… — Johann Baptist Metz Copy Share Image
![“I was taught to lie at a young age. . . . I think that [A PARK IN OUR HOUSE] describes what people make out of their reality in a totalitarian system like Castro's. They take flight and move into the imagination in order to transcend their immediate reality. I had to write this play. It helped me…” quote by Nilo Cruz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a26/nilo-cruz-36320_age_i-was-taught-to-lie-at-a-young-age-i-thi_3050601.jpg)
