Innocence Quotes

Maybe innocence makes its way easiest through the elemental chaos of this world.

The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a wheel rolling on its own, a prime movement, a sacred Yes.

The way to innocence, to the uncreated and to God leads on, not back, not back to the wolf or to the child, but ever further into sin, ever deeper into human life.

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

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

To 'justify' means nothing else than to acquit of guilt him (her) who was accused as if his own innocence were confirmed.

No matter what mistakes we might have made yesterday, today is the day we can retrieve our innocence.

But before we face experience, that miserable enemy, let us have some more innocence, just for a while.

But her's was the misery of innocence, which, like a cloud that passes over the fair moon, for a while hides, but cannot tarnish its brightness.

Until Eve gave him the apple, Adam didn't even know he wasn't wearing underpants.

Parents don't want their children to lose that purity and innocence of childhood. We want to bottle that and hold onto that, but it's impossible.

There may be always a time of innocence. There is never a place.

The worst of us is not without innocence, although buried deeply it might be.

The only enemy of innocence and beauty is time.

By innocence I swear, and by my youth, I have one heart, one bosom, and one truth, And that no woman has, nor never none Shall mistress be of it save I alone.

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

Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.

And the sun on the wall of her room, the block of sun with all the tiny flying things in it. When she was little she thought they were the souls of dead insects, still buzzing in the light.

I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.

Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at.

The innocence of such children doesn't answer our deepest questions about this vale of tears to which we are condemned, but it helps to dispel them. That is the secret to family life.

I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.

Henry was thinking of the younger Holland sister of the way she could go from being an impetuous girl to a knowing woman in a few seconds and never lose the stars in her eyes.

Heaven lies around us in our infancy.

If the Holy Communion touched my teeth, I thought that was a mortal sin

We're children. We're supposed to be childish.

I had never seen a real live dead person.

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

You either keep your childhood innocence or you rot!

I was very lighthearted. This often the way when the abandonment of personal responsibility is enforced: neither wronged innocence or just guilt can seriously impair the sensation of freedom one has.

I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.

She was fragile, gentle, wide awake in a sleeping world.

Having a birthday cake squashed into your face by young kids? Delicious. I always don a Santa suit at Christmas. Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.

Poetry is unfallen speech. Paradise knew no other, for no other would suffice to answer the need of those ecstatic days of innocence.

For me, physical love has always been bound to an irresistible feeling of innocence and joy. Thus, I cannot love in tears but in exaltation.

In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting.

Only her death could prove her innocence; a circle of impossible, deathly judgement.

Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.

It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you; they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment.

It's not your client's obligation, or your obligation, to prove your client's innocence. It is the prosecution's obligation to - to prove you're client's guilt.

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.

The presumption of innocence only means you don't go right to jail.

Oh, but when love is reached through suffering, it has a power it can never gain through innocence.

The courage of children and beasts is a function of innocence.

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 and total concentration.

All animals are born with innocence, curiosity and love.

This innocence Is brilliant I hope that it will stay This moment Is perfect Please don't go away I need you now And I'll hold on to it Don't you let it pass you by

Like, you can find your dream, if you firmly believe. You have to have the innocence, and you have to have the daringness to trust.

I did gardening and cooking and drawing and reading to try take the pressure off the music - just being eclectic and putting the fun back in and bringing more innocence in again is really important.

The kind of people that love 'The Rocketeer' are the kind of people that love good storytelling and innocence and a better world, so to speak, so they're almost always nice people to bump into.