Innocence Quotes

I want to get out of here means I want to be innocent.

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

Maybe innocence is a skin you must shed to build layers more resistant to the caustic truths of the world.

Innocence is a desirable thing, a dainty thing, an appealing thing, in its place; but carried too far, it is merely ridiculous.

All hatred driven hence, The soul recovers radical innocence And learns at last that it is self-delighting, Self-appeasing, self-affrighting, And that its own sweet will is Heaven's will

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.

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

An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away.

To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence--an exemption granted only to invariable virtue.

Do you who are a Christian desire to be revenged and vindicated, and the death of Jesus Christ has not yet been revenged, nor His innocence vindicated?

Prostitution, black marketeering, and informing on ones neighbors and friends all had such a deep-rooted tradition in Romania that there was a charming naturalness and innocence about it.

Sport, at its best, at its most human, is able to inspire an innocence and joy that is unique to each of us.

I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.

Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world.

Innocence is not accustomed to blush.

I would certainly say that films like Time Code and the Loss of Sexual Innocence were far more rewarding to me in terms of being able to move forward as a filmmaker.

Healthy choices thread through every aspect of life.

Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.

Innocence is always unsuspicious.

The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.

Where were you born?" "On a battlefield," [Yossarian] answered. "No, no. In what state were you born?" "In a state of innocence.

There are some things that once you've lost, you never get back. Innocence is one. Love is another. I guess childhood is a third.

Innocence ain’t all it’s cracked up to be, you know. Innocent little kids rip the wings off flies, because they don’t know any better. That’s innocence

I think that freshness and that innocence is something that is missing from a lot of female singers. I'm certainly not denying that I'm young, but I'm not fluff.

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.

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

There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

So I live in Los Angeles, and it's kind of a goofy place. They have an airport named after John Wayne. That ought to explain it. It has a charming kind of superstitious innocence.

Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought.

To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of innocence, an act of aggression, a repetition of our Fall?

Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.

I would love to be fooled. The innocence of child for the first time, seeing something and being in wonder is something that I long for because I'm tainted.

When we see the face of God we shall know that we have always known it. He has been a party to, has made, sustained and moved moment by moment within, all our earthly experiences of innocent love.

Whether we knew many who died on September 11 or personally knew none, we all lost something on that day. Innocence. Security. A trust that our homeland would always be safe.

Innocence is its own defense.

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

The most effective coquetry is innocence.

The innocent mansion of a panther's heart!

A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.

I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas.

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

They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children weep. Good night.

In our haste to grow too soon, we left our innocence on Desert Moon.

A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.

Ignorance is learned; innocence is forgotten.

Innocence is drowned in anarchy. The best lack conviction given time to think, and the worst are full of passion without mercy.

I feel I lost my innocence to cancer.

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