Best 589 quotes in «innocence quotes» category

I had become conscious of my physicality, aware of my presence and open to the ugly truths of the world. At the age of thirteen, I realised that there was a danger in innocence and beauty, and I could not live with both.

I had discovered that love might be a pastime as well as a tragedy, and I gave myself to it with pagan innocence.

I have lived hard and ruined the essential innocence [sic] in myself that could make it that possible [sic], and the fact that I have abused liquor is something to be paid for with suffering and death perhaps but not renunciation.

I haven't lost my innocence particularly. I'm always ready to pretend I haven't. Yeah, it is a shame in a way.

I lost my innocence at age eight, so I decided to do the same to as many young girls as I could.

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

I'm not sure if there is a cultural loss of innocence specifically associated with the seventies. The oil crisis? The Watergate scandal? I really don't know. There's nothing there on the scale of Hiroshima.

I'm going to search for my star until I find it. It's hidden in the drawer of innocence, wrapped in a scarf of wonder.

I'm very mature for my age, but I'm also innocent in a lot of ways.

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

Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.

In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.

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

Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.

I'm Volstag and what you see is what you get. He's a bon vivant lover of life epicurean goodfellow. He's a god, which helps. He's full of life. He reminds me very much of Falstaff. There's a wonderful innocence to him and the steadfast loyalty of a big Saint Bernard dog.

In her lived an innocence of soul of which she seemed unaware.

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

Innocence is always the state of being untouched. Sometimes it's synonymous with virginity, so sometimes it's quite literal, but sometimes it's more of a mental state of being untouched, of not having seen a lot of the world.

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

Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.

[In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become precious . . .

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

Innocence lost is not easily regained. The designer simply cannot predict the problems people will have, the misinterpretations that will arise, and the errors that will get made.

In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent!

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

In the inner place where true artists create there exists a pure child.

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

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.

I thought some of my earlier cartoons were not exactly great shakes at the time I drew them. Now I see a certain innocence in them. The humor has a kind of purity to it, I guess. And it works better on some level for me now.

It is Australian innocence to love The naturally excessive and be proud Of a thoroughbred gelding who ran fast.

I suppose I could say that to be interested in innocence already suggests a remove from innocence, perhaps a longing for something that is lost.

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 is in the translation that the innocence lost after the first reading is restored under another guise, since the reader is once again faced with a new text and its attendant mystery. That is the inescapable paradox of translation, and also its wealth.

It's the first villain that I've played in a movie that has absolutely no vulnerability and no innocence, nothing whatsoever that is likeable about her other than she's so bad.

It's of more importance to community that innocence should be protected than it is that guilt should be punished

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.

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

I use innocence in my demeanor like a Venus flytrap.

Jesse Jackson, when I met him, he had an innocence about him which is still very much a part of him today.

Liberate yourselves from everything you know and look with complete innocence at this infinitely improbable thing before you.

Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

Let the purity and innocence of a child be your one and only religion!

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.

Losing innocence. Remembering Heaven. That was the essence of Hell

Love, the most generous passion of the mind The softest refuge innocence can find

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

Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.

My detention has been worth every second if only to prove my innocence to those who truly matter most my countrymen.

Men are as innocent as the morning to the unsuspicious.

My children inspire me with their innocence and enormous capacity to love.