Quotes About Innocence

Calvin is hammering nails into coffee table. Mom: CALVIN WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO THE COFFEE TABLE?!? Calvin: Is this some sort of trick question, or what?

Virtual reality has nothing on Calvin.

Paul Gauguin asked, whence do we come? What are we? Where are we going? Well, I don't know about anyone else, but I came from my room, I'm a kid with big plans, and I'm going outside! See ya later! Say, who the heck is Paul Gauguin anyway?

MOMMMM, I'm thirsty... What's this, just water?

Oh lovely snowball, packed with care, smack a head that's unaware! Then with freezing ice to spare, melt and soak through underwear! Fly straight and true, hit hard and square! This, oh snowball, is my prayer. I only throw consecrated snowballs.

Calvin: ME TARZAN! KING OF JUNGLE! Suzy: Nice underpants. Does your mom know you're over here like this? Calvin:...I don't think Jane EVER said that to Tarzan.

For me, it's been liberating to put myself in the mind of a fictitious six year-old each day, and rediscover my own curiosity. I've been amazed at how one idea leads to others if I allow my mind to play and wander.

I cut out construction paper feathers and taped them on my arms so I can fly! Pretty neat, huh?

Hobbes: UGH! something under the bed is drooling. Calvin: Start tying the sheets. We'll go out the window.

My childhood ended around the time of my ninth birthday, shamed into sex, obedience and fear.

This love for everyday things, part natural from the wide eye of infancy, part a literary calculation

Wisdom is a return to childhood.

Wisdom leads us back to childhood. Except ye become as little children.

the more innocent it appears to innocent souls, the more they are likely to be touched by it. Its violence pleases our self-love, which immediately forms a desire to produce the same effects which are seen so well represented

11 All great amusements are dangerous to the Christian life; but among all those which the world has invented there is none more to be feared than the theatre. It is a representation of the passions so natural and so delicate that it excites them and gives birth to them in our hearts, and, above all, to that of love, principally when it is represented as very chaste and virtuous. For the more innocent it appears to innocent souls, the more they are likely to be touched by it.

I offered up my innocence and got repaid with scorn

You and I are like Adam and Eve, the first human beings, who had nothing to cover themselves with when the world began, and we are now just as unclothed and homeless at its end.

Tout ce qui n'est ni une couleur, ni un parfum, ni une musique, c'est de l'enfantillage

Tout ce qui n'est ni une couleur, ni un parfum, ni une musique, dit-il en comptant sur ses doigts, c'est de l'enfantillage. -Et une femme? protesta Lil. Sa femme? -Une femme, non, par conséquent, dit Wolf, puisque c'est au moins les trois.

The experienced life is far more fulfilling than the blissful and innocent life. Y'know who said that?" "Jesus." "No, not Jesus. William Blake.

So this, as far as I can tell, is what the birds told me. A message from afar. Obscure Writing. Innocence eroded.

Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever

The mind of youth eagerly catches at promised pleasure: pure and innocent by nature, it thinks not of the dangers lurking beneath those pleasures, till too late to avoid them:

Gideon e io avevamo segreti che per ora potevamo condividere solo l'uno con l'altra e che ci tenevano isolati e reciprocamente dipendenti. Chi aveva abusato di noi non ci aveva portato via solo l'innocenza, ci aveva portato via anche la libertà.