Innocence Quotes

"Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands."

Anne Frank

"It takes a very long time to become young."

Pablo Picasso

"I want to protect innocent people from sin by locking them in cages, where the evil can't get to them."

Jarod Kintz

"He moved like a dancer, which is not surprising; a horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because it moves as if it always hears music."

Mark Helprin

"I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't."

Dylan Thomas

"He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all."

Cormac McCarthy

"You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been."

Aberjhani

"So often survivors have had their experiences denied, trivialized, or distorted. Writing is an important avenue for healing because it gives you the opportunity to define your own reality. You can say: This did happen to me. It was that bad. It was the fault & responsibility of the adult. I was—and am—innocent.” The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass & Laura Davis"

Ellen Bass

"There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children; it doesn't even have to matter what they're laughing about."

Criss Jami

"I like living in my head because in there, everyone is kind and innocent. Once you start integrating yourself into the world, you realize that people are nasty, mean creatures. They're worse than zombies. People try to crush your soul and destroy your happiness, but zombies just want to have a little nibble of your brain."

J. Cornell Michel

"Isn't life,' she stammered, 'isn't life--' But what life was she couldn't explain. No matter. He quite understood.'Isn't it, darling?' said Laurie."

Katherine Mansfield

"Innocence invites protection, yet we might be smarter to protect ourselves against it..."

Megan Johns

"My parents had torn through my innocence and left me with a tar-like substance that was corrupting what was left of me. I could feel it at night; slithering and curling around my soul as it slowly devoured me. It was draining my energy and replacing it with an evil I was afraid to confront."

J.D. Stroube

"...you're either gonna spend your life fucking pussy, or taking it to church."

Dave Matthes

"Sometimes I ask God what I did to deserve her love. I maintain my innocence, and of all the forms of God’s wrath from plagues, pestilence, and famine, her love is by far the cruelest."

Jarod Kintz

"I don’t have a philosophy: I have senses...If I talk about Nature, it’s not because I know what it is,But because I love it, and that’s why I love it,Because when you love you never know what you love,Or why you love, or what love is.Loving is eternal innocence,And the only innocence is not thinking."

Alberto Caeiro

"Staring at a world too horrible to comprehend, believing -- by dint of ignorance and innocence -- that beneath this unbearable contract of guilt and blame there is always an older contract that may bind and release in a more salutary way."

Gregory Maguire

"I understand now that the only time black people don't feel guilty is when we've actually done something wrong, because that relieves us of the cognitive dissonance of being black and innocent, and in a way the prospect of going to jail becomes a relief."

Paul Beatty, The Sellout

"Young people sometimes use their innocence as an excuse to be unwise."

David A.R. White, Between Heaven and Hollywood: Chasing Your God-Given Dream

"If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?"

Michael Connelly, The Concrete Blonde

"Question like a child, reason like an adult, and write like a sage."

Criss Jami, Healology

"To preserve your innocence while acquiring intelligence, that is a true mark of wisdom."

Charbel Tadros

"It's when you take somebody's innocence that you also take their life."

Anthony T.Hincks

"Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness."

Criss Jami, Healology

"There is nothing more pure and beautiful than a person who always speaks truthfully with a childlike heart."

Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

"Our true nature is one of innocence and freedom to choose how we live. We need to be brave enough not to give that away. Don't give up on your right to, and sense of, TRUTH, Justice, and GRACE."

Jay Woodman

"Who else but me is ever going to read these letters?"

Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

"During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me. Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn't do it. Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison.On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody."

Alan Alda, Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned

"I had never seen a real live dead person."

Jacqueline Kelly

"I have been wrongly accused; and you, ma'am, and everybody else, will now think me wicked.""We shall think you what you prove yourself to be, my child. Continue to act as a good girl, and you will satisfy us."

Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

"Ô, Wanderess, WanderessWhen did you feel your most euphoric kiss? Was I the source of your greatest bliss?"

Roman Payne

"No mi kršćani upućeni smo po središtu našega Creda - 'mučen pod Poncijem Pilatom' - u povijest u kojoj je bilo razapinjanja i mučenja, u kojoj se plakalo i tako rijetko ljubilo. I nikakav od povijesti udaljeni mit, nikakav Platonovi idejni Bog, nikakva gnostička soteriologija i nikakav apstraktni govor o povijesnosti naše egzistencije ne mogu nam vratiti onu nedužnost koju smo u toj povijesti izgubili."

Johann Baptist Metz, Memoria passionis: Ein provozierendes Gedächtnis in pluralistischer Gesellschaft

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

T.H. White, The Book of Merlyn

"Influence is everything. One wrong influence can single handedly destroy every bit of your innocence and innocence is the root of all wisdom."

John Maiorana (oohGiovanni)

"Our lips were for each other and our eyes were full of dreams. We knew nothing of travel and we knew nothing of loss. Ours was a world of eternal spring, until the summer came."

Roman Payne, Hope and Despair

"Ô, Muse of the Heart’s Passion,let me relive my Love’s memory,to remember her body, so brave and so free,and the sound of my Dreameress singing to me,and the scent of my Dreameress sleeping by me,Ô, sing, sweet Muse, my soliloquy!"

Roman Payne

"When in court, the primary role of lawyers is not to prove or disprove innocence; unbeknown to almost all lawyers and their clients, it is to save the court time."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"Bitch inside innocence...!!!"

M.Rehan Behleem

"Irony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence."

Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory

"My world was the size of a crayon box, and it took every colour to draw her"

Sarah Kay, No Matter the Wreckage

"He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment."

Henry Miller

"Well, did he do it?"She always asked the irrelevant question. It didn't matter in terms of the strategy of the case whether the defendant "did it" or not. What mattered was the evidence against him -- the proof -- and if and how it could be neutralized. My job was to bury the proof, to color the proof a shade of gray. Gray was the color of reasonable doubt."

Michael Connelly, The Lincoln Lawyer

"Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence; it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right."

Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

"He started to wonder if maybe they had been raptured while he was in school. He always worried the Lord would show up when he wasn't around. Or when he was on the toilet, taking care of a number two."

Rachel Autumn Deering, Husk

"There were times he thought it would have been far better to never have known. Yet he continued to return to his core principle: that, in every situation, knowledge was better than ignorance. However agonizing, it was necessary to confront the facts. Only through knowing could a person become strong."

Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women: Stories

"Maybe I don’t really want to know what’s going on. Maybe I’d rather not know. Maybe I couldn’t bear to know.The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge."

Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

"Innocence is the beginning of ignorance. Experience is the end of stupidity."

Michael Bassey Johnson, Master of Maxims

"Lift up your eyes from your books, from your past, from your hurts and look upon all people with love, because when you look into another’s eyes and see innocence, you find it in yourself."

Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D.

"For children, childhood is timeless. It is always the present. Everything is in the present tense. Of course, they have memories. Of course, time shifts a little for them and Christmas comes round in the end. But they don’t feel it. Today is what they feel, and when they say ‘When I grow up,’ there is always an edge of disbelief—how could they ever be other than what they are?"

Ian McEwan, The Child in Time

"In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent."

Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

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