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Quotes About Innocence

Nothing is worse in prison than the consciousness of one's innocenc; it prevents acclimatizatin and undermines one's morale...
~ Arthur Koestler
Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
~ Arthur Miller
A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.
~ Arthur Miller
No one's serious at seventeen, When lindens line the promenades
~ Arthur Rimbaud
Ce soir-là, . . . vous rentrez aux cafés éclatants, Vous demandez des bocks ou de la limonade . . . On n'est pas sérieux, quand on a dix-sept ans Et qu'on a des tilleuls verts sur la promenade.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
Terminé por encontrar sagrado el desorden de mi espíritu. Permanecía ocioso, presa de pesada fiebre: envidiaba la felicidad de las bestias —las orugas, que representan la inocencia de los limbos, los topos ¡el sueño de la virginidad!
~ Arthur Rimbaud
Am sfârÅŸit prin a socoti sacr? dezordinea minÅ£ii mele.Eram trândav,prad? unei febre ap?s?toare:pizmuiam fericirea dobitoacelor,pizmuiam ÅŸi omizile,care întruchipeaz? inocenÅ£a limburilor,la fel ÅŸi cârtiÅ£ele,ÅŸi somnul virginit??ii!
~ Arthur Rimbaud
Children's laughter marks both beginning and end. This poison lingers in our veins even when we withdraw to the silence of prior discord.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
I explained my magical sophisms with hallucinations of words! I ended up believing my spiritual disorder sacred. I was lazy, proof of my fever: I envied the happiness of animals—caterpillars, symbolic of the innocence of limbo; moles, virginity's sleep! I grew bitter. I said farewell to the world in a ballad.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
S-o pornesc din nou pe drumurile de-aici,împov?rat de propriu-mi viciu,de viciul acesta care ÅŸi-a înfipt în mine r?d?cinile dureroase înc? de la vârsta când am început s? judec,ÅŸi care urc? spre cer,m? loveÅŸte,m? r?stoarn?,m? târ??te dup? el. Ultima inocen?? ÅŸi ultima sfial?.A fost rostit?.A nu-i oferii lumii lehamitea ÅŸi tr?irile mele.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
Am încetat s? îndr?gesc plictiseala.Furiile,dezm??ul,nebunia--c?reia îi cunosc toate avânturile ÅŸi toate pr?buÅŸirile,întreaga mea povar? a fost lep?dat?.S? m?sur?m f?r? a ameÅ£i întinderea inocenÅ£ei mele.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
On n'est pas sérieux, quand on a dix-sept ans Et qu'on a des tilleuls verts sur la promenade.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
On n'est pas sérieux, quand on a dix-sept ans.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace of shame and indeed with a kind of pride. The reason is that pregnancy is in a certain sense a cancellation of the guilt incurred by coitus; thus coitus bears all the shame and disgrace of the affair, while pregnancy, which is so intimately associated with it, stays pure and innocent and is indeed to some extent sacred.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
todos los ojos de todos los niños de todas las guerras eran una larga recriminación sin palabras al mundo de los adultos.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
There are some things children cannot know, because once they learn them they are no longer children.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
The capper came when the manager of the bank came forward to testify in my behalf. He said that i was definitely not the woman who robbed the bank and that the robber was a different height and weight from mine.
~ Assata Shakur
To those who try to reach The throne of power Over mounds of dead bodies Of innocent children Old women Young men, I have a question: Did nothing bind them To those who died? - Power
~ Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Bak! Bu da benim kan?m, temiz. Adet dönemindeki kanla temiz kan aras?nda ne fark var? Adet kan?nda tiksinti duyulacak ne var? Sen bu kandan do?dun. Senin kan?ndan daha temiz.
~ Atiq Rahimi
On the one hand maybe I've remained infantile, while on the other I matured quickly, because at a young age I was very aware of suffering and fear.
~ Audrey Hepburn
If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
~ Audrey Hepburn
You go back. You search for what made you happy when you were smaller. We are all grown up children, really... So one should go back and search for what was loved and found to be real.
~ Audrey Hepburn
Children accept many things adults will not accept, since the world of a child is a constant revelation without any need for knowledge of cause and effect. ("Miss Esperson")
~ August Derleth
Okay, Troy...you're right. I'll take care of your baby for you...cause...like you say...she's innocent...and you can't visit the sins of the father upon the child. A motherless child has got a hard time. From right now...this child got a mother. But you a womanless man.
~ August Wilson