Quotes About Innocence

I want to savor the aging process. As you get older, you trade your innocence for wisdom and the wisdom is your reward.

Wisdom leads us back to childhood.

For this freedom I have given all I had For this darkness I gave my light For this wisdom I have lost my innocence Take my petals And cover me with the night

An innocent person is really like a magnet and it attracts, he attracts, the people towards himself, just like a flower attracts a bee towards itself.

Let the purity and innocence of a child be your one and only religion!

Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by the often perverse wisdom of man!

Wisdom oft comes from the mouth of babes.

See him as the child he was.

She could never feel love for him. Love was what she felt for birds—a free gift, unrequired, unrequited, invulnerable.

It is easy to defend the innocent; but who is eloquent enough to defend the guilty?

Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.

Creative vision, sometimes childlike, enhances our ability to explore and question the reality around us.

Zen is to have the heart and soul of a little child.

I'm as pure as the driven slush.

My heart is pure as the driven slush.

The Rebel's bad attitude is a form of protection Take a look at J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye. Holden Caulfield has just been expelled from his prep school for academic failure. Bright and sensitive, he narrates his story in a cynical, jaded voice. Holden longs for a beautiful and innocent world. He cannot bear the hypocrisy of the those around him; his attitude is an attempt to protect himself from pain and disappointment.

I didn't even try to explain to him what I was seeing, the fine spreading web through which we had all tugged one another to this place, the multiple innocences that make guilt.

I coped, in the grand tradition of children everywhere, by retreating into my imagination.

I needed to go into that bare, with nothing from my own life on my body, the way woodcutters' children in fairy tales have to leave their protections behind to enter the enchanted castle; the way votaries in old religions used to go naked to their initiation rites.

Trey says, with absolute bedrock certainty, "He wouldn't do that." Cal reached the point a long time ago where those words make him tired for all of humanity. All the innocents say that, and believe it tot he bone, right p until the moment when they can't any more. My husband would never do that to our children, my baby ain't no thief. Cal feels like he ought to stand on a street corner handing out warnings, little pieces of paper that just say: Anyone could do anything.

When you stop being a kid, you lose your one chance at that too-tender-to-touch gold, that breathtaken everything and forever. Once you start growing up and getting sense, the outside world turns real, and your own private world is never everything again.

Honestly it wasn't Susanna I was tired of, not really; it was me, wronged innocent, white knight, cunning investigator, killer, selfish oblivious dick, petty provocateur, take your pick, what does it matter? it'll all change again

A Retir'd Friendship Here let us sit and bless our Starres Who did such happy quiet give, As that remov'd from noise of warres. In one another's hearts we live. Why should we entertain a feare? Love cares not how the world is turn'd. If crouds of dangers should appeare, Yet friendship can be unconcern'd. We weare about us such a charme, No horrour can be our offence; For mischief's self can doe no harme To friendship and to innocence. Katherine Philips