Quotes About Innocence

Why should we all act so like children? Because we are? Yes, I suppose so." She made a humorous grimace. "But even then, why?" She pondered this for some time. "I suppose it was worth while-all those things I made-in a way," she mused, "and I suppose I wouldn't have made them, otherwise." She looked doubtful. "Is that it? So we will do the things that would not seem worth while-if we stopped to think?"...Yes, that was it!

Para mim, estar inocente significa não se ter nascido ou estar-se morto. Admito isto, estou pronto a reconhecer que há muitas espécies diferentes de culpa: uma culpa mais inocente do que a da maioria, e uma mais carregada, uma que transborda do sentimento da falta e outra que corre apenas gota a gota.

aspirava a uma paz que só a inocência na solidão pode proporcionar, a paz de um solitário inocente, que não abandonou nem traiu ninguém para estar só, um solitário que se conserva à margem do sangue e do sofrimento, sem que lhe possam ser pedidas contas.

A great burden had been lifted from my soul. I had divested its weight onto the child Rayojini, and I knew she would not feel it there. It could not harm her. Not yet. Not for a long time.

Owen jumped up and helped himself to more wine. Othman could almost smell the boy's anxiety. He, more than the more innocent Lily, sensed the potential simmering in the room. Othman observed Owen's taut back. His reserve must be broken down.

Everyone felt guilty, even those who were innocent. That was the problem with dishonesty, its taint spread wide. It bred distrust.

Daniel looked young and vulnerable, still wearing his school uniform, although he'd removed his tie and jacket.

In any case, a world without toys would be a terribly dull place.

It is astounding how, when in the womblike embrace of warm water, we can fool ourselves that we can still be children.

Neither of them particularly understood what they were feeling because they were very innocent and neither of them had any idea what the strange sensations in their bodies could mean or how they could be satisfied.

Othman admired the boy's saintly composure, his innocent dignity. He knew he had made the right choice.

I loved and lost too many times, but in Samuel found peace. In his innocence and inexperience, he lacked the brutal qualities of men who awake the beast with me.

If there were tears upon the face of the lamb, it was only fitting.

Daniel Cranton would be offered to the flame; the innocent, newly-awakened, brimming with psychic energy, untapped and fresh. Daniel.

There: the child, her lovely gleam, her bright innocence, so trusting. And she too reaches out to us.

He looked up at her, his face that of total vulnerability. He was a boy again, confused because the world had acted against him.

Tatrini watched Tayven and Rav outside, as they sat on the lawn: a picture of contentment and innocence.

Being a child is such a shining gift, yet we don't know how precious it is until it's worn out and gone away.

I have a great relationship with animals, and with children. I get to their level. I try to see the way a child looks at the world, it's hugely different.

Naw, girl. I mean nekkid." Kelsey looked at both of us in mock disgust before explaining. "Naked is when you don't have any clothes on. Nekkid is when you don't have any clothes on and you're up to no good.

If you have lost touch with your dreams and desires, a good way to retrieve them is to remember what you dreamed of doing and being as a kid.

To me then, at the age of eleven, Santa Clause was a bit like God, all-seeing, all-knowing, but without the lousy things that God allows to happen: earthquakes, famines, motorway crashes.

Pauline: "All under-fives are mad Adrian, you used to talk to the moon. You invited it to your birthday party and cried when it didn't turn up." George: "When it went dark and the moon came up, you ran outside and threw a sausage roll at it!

In their innocence and wisdom, in their connection to the earth and its most ancient rhythms, animals show us a way back to a home they have never left.