Innocence Quotes

If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themselves were constantly innocent.

Innocence still lives within our hearts and the child within each of us knows right from wrong.

This was me before I knew about anything hard, when my whole life was packed lunches and art projects and spelling quizzes.

Smile on the face or innocence on the face is as attractive as beauty on the face.

So little I know in my innocence. Ideals, like pebbles in a stream wash away, wash away. Life makes no sense.

Is there innocence in ignorance? And if there is, do we tolerate other for their innocence's sake?

There are innumerable ways to murder a person, but the most subtle and pernicious of these is to mutilate the soul of the innocent by denying or downgrading their uniqueness and their beauty.

And let your board stand an altar on which the pure and the innocent of forest and plain are sacrificed for that which is purer and still more innocent in man.

The child I wasis just one breath away from me.

A face whose emotions had not yet been battered by experience.

I am against justice … whenever it is carried out by a mob.

This is a bad story.”“Sorry. I’m really sorry. I shouldn’t have told you.”“No, you should, ” I say.“But—”“I don’t want there to be bad stories and me not know them.

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

I know that age, it's a particularly obstinate one, and a thousand bogies won't make you fear the future. A pity we can't change over.

I had forgotten such innocence exists, /forgotten how it feels/ to live with neither calendars nor clocks

The only thing scarier than death is the disappearance from youth.

I cherished her individuality, that spark of independence no child should lose to life's restrictions and parameters.

To express nostalgia for a childhood we no longer share is to deny the actual significance and humanity of children.

Once upon a time there was a girl named Debbie Jacobs and a boy named Teddy Dennis.

Chronologically she is twelve, but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still.

Not every one of us sees the beauty of the stars and innocence of the moon by looking at sky.

Are you planning to kiss me?' Aedan asked.'No.' Emroy wrinkled a pimply nose.'Then why are you standing so close?' Aedan's tone was perfect innocence.

To me she looked like a lily, an innocence floating in the pond!

Have you taught her to kill, Priest? Can you teach her such a thing? She's so wise in her innocence, so innocent in her wisdom.

Our purpose is to find out whether innocence, the moment it becomes involved in an action, can avoid committing murder.

I see you from afar—fragile and shy as a star gleaming through a cloudy rift

I never, even for a moment, doubted what they’d told me. This is why it is that adults and even parents can, unwittingly, be cruel: they cannot imagine doubt’s complete absence. They have forgotten.

That little girl was dead and in her place stood a cold-blooded killer.

His own naivety taunted him like a flicker of madness.

Innocence crafts its own demise.

Just because you act a little guilty doesn't mean you're innocent.

Innocence isn't something we lose, but realise we don't need.

A human being who trades away individuality for conformity is nothing but a slave.

Memories can be hard to forget and painful to remember that those who hate us now once loved us.

Where was my guardian angel when I needed him most? If only I knew.

If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

The world’s crawling with stupid, innocent girls, and I’m just one of them, self-consciously chasing after dreams that will never come true.

He can feel them, reaching out for the child, groping their way to its purity…

...I live with regrets - the bittersweet loss of innocence - the red track of the moon upon the lake - the inability to return and do it again...

If we put aside the practicality, we may find our wishes to be very innocent.

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

How quickly we come around, ' Sazed whispered. 'It wasn't long ago that men were forced to watch the Lord Ruler cut the heads from innocent people. Now we do it to ourselves.

I can't bear the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and ends with the ideal of Sodom.

She realized that she had naïvely believed that the workings of the world revolved around her and her family. Never before had she acknowledged that somebody else’s life might alter hers.

What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man never writes, acts, or composes.

I see you exhausted by poisonous flies

Innocence has no place alongside immortality.

Maturity is the moment one regains one's innocence.

No one loses their innocence. It is either taken or given away willingly.

There is no aphrodisiac like innocence