Innocence Quotes
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You might call this innocence. I had a sense of another world that had not been spoken of to me.
Quentin S. Crisp
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
Henrik Ibsen
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Now, I want to remember all this. My life has known days of innocence when I had only to close my eyes in order not to see.
Albert Memmi
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I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.
Steve Toltz
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Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.
Whittaker Chambers
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For I had expected always Some brightness to hold in trust, Some final innocence To save from dust
Stephen Spender
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Innocence gave me confidence to go up against reality.
Neil Peart Rush
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Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.
Honore de Balzac
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Why then you're as mad as me. No, madder. For I distrust 'reality' and its moron mother, the universe, while you fasten your innocence to fallible devices which pretend at happy endings.
Ray Bradbury
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Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'.
Michael Sandel
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
Seneca the Younger
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We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
Seneca the Younger
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Time it was And what a time it was, it was A time of innocence A time of confidences Long ago it must be I have a photograph Preserve your memories They're all that's left you.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
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I forget nothing and then, one day, there will be revenge. Innocence isn't exactly everywhere. But I will say innocence also takes you far in photography.
Karl Lagerfeld
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In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting.
Albert Camus
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Love. Children are loving, they dont gossip, they dont complain, theyre just open–hearted. Theyre ready for you. They dont judge. They dont see things by way of color. Theyre very child–like. Thats the problem with adults: they lose that child–like quality. And thats the level of inspiration thats so needed and is so important for creating and writing songs and for a sculptor, a poet or a novelist. Its that same kind of innocence, that same level of consciousness, that you create from. And kids have it. I feel it right away from animals and children and nature. Of course.
Michael Jackson
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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.
Mike Figgis
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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.
William Shakespeare
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I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas.
Hillary Scott Lady Antebellum
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The world had little patience or concern for innocence.
Gillian Anderson
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Back to my childhood where those monsters reside. They snack on innocence and dine on self esteem.
Jimmy Buffett
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Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
William Butler Yeats