Quotes About Innocence

Most of the time - in 'Pan's Labyrinth' or 'Devil's Backbone' - I'm talking about my childhood.

When I was a kid, I was always drawing things. I'd get butcher paper or grocery bags and draw on them.

On paper, it looks rough, but I had a great childhood.

I didn't know anything about movies or movie stars or the Academy or anything. I was just a blank sheet of paper. I was totally ignorant of all that stuff. I never went to the movies, didn't know anything about the movies.

Some people think of the '50s as a time of innocence, but they are misremembering it or reinventing it: if you look at the papers of the time, they are filled with dread and anxiety.

I find that 'Taare Zameen Par' is one of the most beautiful movies ever made about the inner world of a child.

I would climb on roofs and jump off using my parents' bed sheet, hoping it would open like a parachute. I was always getting hurt, breaking a leg, you know, bruising, cracking my head open.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me.

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.

When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!

I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood.

Childhood is a short season.

One of the things I say is, 'You want to know what it's like to be a baby? It's like being in love for the first time in Paris after four double espressos.' And boy, you are alive and conscious.

I grew up with babies, so babies have never been particularly intimidating to me.

Don't feel bad about it," the sergeant said. "You never know when it's the real thing." Afterward he reflected on how he had been alone on the street, and how they came at once, unquestioningly, thinking that he needed them, and the memory of that moment remained with him always, like the lost innocence of a child.

Soon the child's clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions, and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor of the ego. Not until years later does an instinct come that a vital sense of mystery has been withdrawn. The sun glints through the pines and the heart is pierced in a moment of beauty and strange pain, like a memory of paradise. After that day, we become seekers.

You mean..." Billy exclaimed at last, "you mean..." – his voice rose high and clear – "you mean..." – and he jumped to his feet, and standing there under the giant trees, pointed at himself, a small outraged boy named William Martin Quarrier, aged eight: "You mean I just came crashing down into Ma's under-pants?

he realized with a shock that the loss of innocence never stopped happening, that he was still losing it, that it was like a wound that never healed, and he would probably go on losing it, drop by drop, until the day he died.

The fifth point I would like to mention is how faith in disinterested perception in the modern sciences has been shaken, particularly by the events in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Physics, the previously unchallenged ruling discipline of the natural sciences, lost its innocence at the latest because of

At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.

At some point, for all eternity, there will be no more unmerited suffering: this present darkness, "the age of evil", will eventually be remembered as a brief flicker at the beginning of human history. Every evil done by the wicked to the innocent will have been avenged, and every tear will have been wiped away

Nature, though. Nature always welcomed him. She passed no judgements, didn't care about right or wrong, guilt or innocence.