Quotes About Innocence

Little-boy love...the cleanest pain I've ever known. Love without desire, conditions, or limits - a pure and radiant glow in the heart that could make me giddy and sad and glorious all at once. Where does it go? Why, in all their experiments, did the Magi never try to capture that purity in a bottle? Perhaps they couldn't.

She was twentysix and pretty in a way that made men want to tuck her into flannel sheets and kiss her on the forehead before leaving the room; cute but not beautiful.

at eighteen months, Sophie moved like a small drunk most of the time.)

His heart was in the right place, he really did want to cleanse our people of their sins, it was just that no one would believe that God would give that responsibility to a thirteen-year-old.

Love me...I am not evil.

There would be a trial and there would be a judge. The only problem was, there could only be one sentence.

Good teachers put snags in the river of children passing by, and over the years, they redirect hundreds of lives. Many people find it easy to imagine unseen webs of malevolent conspiracy theory around the world, and they are not always wrong. But there is also an innocence that conspires to hold humanity together, and it is made of people who can never fully know the good that they have done.

Even in the era that we think of as the "good old days" children were never truly safe. Monsters walked among us, even then. In this case, though, the monster in question was not an adult that preyed on a child, it was what the

What is it that the child has to teach? The child naively believes that everything should be fair and everyone should be honest, that only good should prevail, that everybody should have what they want and there should be no pain or sadness. The child believes the world should be perfect and is outraged to discover it is not. And the child is right.

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

Is it possible to say It was a beautiful morning at the end of November without feeling like Snoopy?

Madmen and children always speak the truth.

Benno blushed violently. "I am not a murderer!" he protested. "No one is, until he commits his first crime," William said philosophically.

La vida no es más que una lenta rememoración de la infancia.

Qué hermoso era el espectáculo de la naturaleza aún no tocada por el saber, a menudo perverso, del hombre! Vi

The little girl, all ears, giggled. "I like that," she said. "Forgiveness, not permission. I'll remember that.

And yet somehow the most matter-of-fact person could not help thinking of the hogs; they were so innocent, they came so very trustingly; and they were so very human in their protests—and so perfectly within their rights!

My own ultraviolet darling. Lolita

He sensed Death with a depth and clarity of which only small children or great philosophers are capable, philosophers who are themselves almost childlike in the power and simplicity of their thinking.

Mornings are fresh like babies, uncontaminated by events. I find them sad for that reason. They're too fragile and naïve.

The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would last through life; he said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being.

A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children.

Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.

She gave anyone who saw her a sensation of April and of dawn. There was dew in her eyes. Cosette was a condensation of auroral light in womanly form.