Innocence Quotes

It is a low thing to always want to be understood. Let my innocence take care of itself.

I want to make things that put me in the position of innocence, that recreate the feeling of innocence in you.

I believe in innocence until there's proof of guilt and all that.

They confused beauty with innocence and harmlessness.

Innocence and optimism have one basic failing: they have no fundamental depth.

The young, in their innocence, are often wise and capable of teaching the old.

Sometimes a certain innocence is good, but not about yourself.

This isn't about guilt or innocence, he says. The dinosaurs weren't morally good or bad, but they're all dead.

I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong.

Always changing genres, making very different films is a good idea. It's a way of making yourself feel vulnerable again, getting back to that innocence. As is working within a circumspect budget.

When I was a kid growing up in New York, I was pretty unaware of racism. I think when we're young - before we lose our innocence - we're sort of unaware of the more flawed qualities of each other.

When you see Liana [Liberato], who at the time was 14, there is an inexperience and innocence that you can't act and you can't fake.

In your present-moment awareness, awaken to your innocence, your trust, your love, your eternal being.

Love, wonder, joy & awareness are the gifts of innocence.

Innocence is suffering and the loss of that innocence is something to fear.

The question of dying becomes a wise reminder. It cures us of our innocence of the future.

Look past the violence. There is a wonderful brimming spirit of innocence and fun.

I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.

The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious; he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence.

Resistance is weakness and fear masquerading as strength. What the ego sees as weakness is your Being in its purity, innocence, and power. What it sees as strength is weakness.

These idle disputants overlooked the invariable laws of nature, which have connected peace with innocence, plenty with industry, and safety with valour.

Childish fantasy, like the sheath over the bud, not only protects but curbs the terrible budding spirit, protects not only innocence from the world, but the world from the power of innocence.

... to be "literary" appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.

Innocence eroded into nightmare. All because of very bad touch. Love, corrupted.

The paradox of publicity is that even as we do it, we know it's killing off the chance of another reader happening across our book in the ideal state of innocence.

It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one's youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one's stature on the edge of the door.

Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.

I prefer to have all of this apparatus - historical, literary, critical - and then, beyond initial innocence and naiveté, to try to achieve a new innocence, a new naiveté.

The graceful flowers of innocence are more valuable than the laurel crown of fame.

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

Without innocence, nothing can further, as they say in the I Ching.

Innocence does not protect you from the evil designs of others.

In addition to innocence, we have to have knowledge of good and evil.

Life should be continually brighter. We are continually seeking our own innocence. We want to recapture it for eternity. It's in there, but we lose touch with it.

Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically and with innocence.

Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.

There is an innocence in lying which is the sign of good faith in a cause.

Even in the lust of knowledge I feel only my will's delight in begetting and becoming; and if there be innocence in my knowledge it is because my procreative will is in it.

Truly, it is a blessing and not a blasphemy when I teach that "above all things there stands the heaven of chance, the heaven of innocence, the heaven of accident, the heaven of wantonness".

Innocence has a friend in heaven.

I'm interested in how innocence fares when it collides with hard reality.

English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of their adult slave.

Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin.

People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes.

A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread.

Men are as innocent as the morning to the unsuspicious.

To the innocent there are neither cherubim nor angels.

All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story.

So near along life's stream are the fountains of innocence and youth making fertile its sandy margin; and the voyageur will do well to replenish his vessels often at these uncontaminated sources.

The innocence of virgins is like milk which turns when exposed to a clap of thunder, to a tart smell, to a hot day, to the merest nothing.