Quotes About Innocence

God, why didn't you make us all dogs?

Oh, but when love is reached through suffering, it has a power it can never gain through innocence.

Carefully I opened my eyes and looked at him again. All his natural gifts were there in a blaze of light: the delicate but strong limbs, large sober brown eyes, and his mouth that for all the irony and sarcasm that could come out of it was childlike and ready to be kissed.

He bent close to me, and suddenly kissed me, in a manner that seemed entirely childlike and also a bit European.

I've watched two-year-old humans with interest for centuries. They're miserable. They rush about, fall down, and scream almost constantly. They hate being human! They know already that it's some sort of dirty trick.

He seemed even younger now, as though he were traveling backwards in time, in his mind, or merely becoming innocent, as if the dead, if they are going to stick around, have a right to remember their innocence.

It was almost as if he had become, in his inveterate goodness, a little bit of a simpleton as is bound to happen, I think, if and when one gives oneself absolutely to God.

The Horror of the world was that thousands of evils fell upon innocent people, and no one was punished and with great promise there was nothing but pain and desire Children mutilated to form a choir of seraphim. Their song was a cry to heaven the sky was not listening.

To be godless is probably the first step to innocence," he said, "to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost.

To be godless is probably the first step to innocence," he said, "to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost." "So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions.

And there persisted in her a sense of Michael's dangerous innocence, his naivete, which seemed to her to be connected to his attitudes about evil. He understood good better than he did evil.

There was never any innocence for us, there was never any springtime. There was never any chance, no matter how beautiful the twilight gardens in which we wandered. Our souls were too out of tune, our desires crossed and our resentments to common and too well watered for the final flowering.

Surely you attribute great degrees and variations to goodness. There is the goodness of the child which is innocence, and then there is the goodness of the monk who has given up everything to others and lives a life of self-deprivation and service. The goodness of saints, the goodness of good housewives. Are all these the same?

And then I realized that all humans were created for death. They were all born as little struggling innocents, learning to live before they knew what it was about.

He didn't have to make the flowers fall," I said. "I taught him not to hurt things that were pretty. I taught him that when we were small.

And no small part of this unpredicted miracle was the curious innocence of these people in the very midst of their freedom and their wealth. The Christian god was as dead as he had been in the 1700s. And no new mythological religion had arisen to take the place of the old .

Mael wore the astonished expression of an innocent.

To be godless is probably the first step to innocence," he said, "to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost." "So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions." "An absence of need for illusions," he said. "A love of and respect for what is right before your eyes.

To be godless is probably the first step to innocence... to lose the false sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost.

Can you picture it?' she said so softly I scarcely heard. 'A coven of children? That is all I could provide…

Essere ateo è probabilmente il primo passo per giungere all'innocenza», continuò Marius. «Perdere il senso del peccato e della subordinazione e il falso rimpianto per le cose perdute.» «Quindi, per innocenza tu non intendi la mancanza di esperienza ma l'assenza di illusioni.» «L'assenza del bisogno di illusioni», rispose lui.

As I looked at the child on the bed, I forgot the language of guilt and recrimination.

Give me the boy I was, give me the finest green satin and ruff upon ruff of fancy lace, give me stockings and braided boots, and let my hair be clean and shining.

So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions." "An absence of need for illusions," he said.