Essentials Quote by John Updike

Purity is innocence, the innocence of lack of self. Desire is innocent unless it's connected with self.

— Frederick Lenz

Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed

— May Sarton

“Innocence is only a virtue, lass, when it is temporary. You must pass from it to look back and recognize its unsullied purity. To…

— Steven Erikson

“What I call innocence is the spirit's unself-conscious state at any moment of pure devotion to any object. It is at once a receptiveness…

— Annie Dillard

Innocence is the source of love.

— Nirmala Srivastava

It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.

— Charles Peguy

Innocence is indeed a glorious thing; but, unfortunately, it does not keep very well and is easily led astray.

— Immanuel Kant

Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste.

— Patricia Hampl

Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.

— Mason Cooley

I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship.

— Helene Cixous

Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.

— Joan Didion

“Even innocence itself has many a wile, And will not dare to trust itself with truth, And love is taught hypocrisy from youth.”

— Lord Byron