Quotes About Innocence

She was free, still, like a child, the way it is before you are seen and then after that you can never remember who you are unless someone else shows it to you.

It is amazing to think of how little it takes to make a girl, of a certain age and artistic temperament, believe she is in love.

And I'll do whatever is necessary to clear his name.

She's young. She's blond. She's beautiful.

Merrick chucked Sarah's chin and stroked her cheek. "Eyes blue as violets and hair like an angel. Your mama must be mighty pretty if she's anything like you. I'd like to see her.

Bellario. Sir, you did take me up When I was nothing; and only yet am something By being yours. You trusted me unknown; And that which you were apt to conster A simple innocence in me, perhaps Might have been craft, the cunning of a boy Hardened in lies and theft: yet ventured you To part my miseries and me; for which, I never can expect to serve a lady That bears more honour in her breast than you.

What delicious abandon in the sleep of the child. Where do we lose it?

Jessica stopped beside him: 'What delicious abandon in the sleep of a child.' He spoke mechanically: 'If only adults could relax like that.' 'Yes.' 'When do we lose it?' He murmured… 'We do indeed lose something,' she said.

Jessica stopped beside him, said: "What delicious abandon in the sleep of a child.

The trouble with some kinds of warfare (and be certain the Tyrant knew this, because it is implicit in his lesson) is that they destroy all moral decency in susceptible types. Warfare of these kinds will dump the destroyed survivors back into an innocent population that is incapable of even imagining what such returned soldiers might do.

What delicious abandon in the sleep of a child." He spoke mechanically: "If only adults could relax like that.

There is no guilt or innocence in you. All of that is past. Guilt belabors the dead and I am not the Iron Hammer. You multitude of the dead are merely people who have done certain things, and the memory of those things illuminates my path.

Jessica stopped beside him, said: "What delicious abandon in the sleep of a child." He spoke mechanically: "If only adults could relax like that." "Yes." "Where do we lose it?" he murmured.

To be guilty is to be innocent. Thus, to be innocent is to be guilty.

On the other hand, she was perfectly at her ease; doubtless the woman in her was not yet awakened; she was yet, as one might say, without sex. She was almost like a boy, frank, candid, unreserved.

One should never underestimate the murderous rage of children.

There can be only one global village. These structures were the greatest business opportunities ever imagined—and only the innocence of faith could blind one to the possibility that they would fall into the hands of big firms.

Acting as if there were no problems on their minds, Frank and Joe strolled along whistling. Once they joined a group of people who were watching a sidewalk merchant. The man was demonstrating little jumping animals. Frank and Joe laughed as they bought a monkey and a kangaroo. "Iola and Callie will get a kick out of these," Joe predicted.

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

But I'm not guilty," said K. "there's been a mistake. How is it even possible for someone to be guilty? We're all human beings here, one like the other." "That is true" said the priest "but that is how the guilty speak

Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.

I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.

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

Devilish in my innocence.