Quotes About Innocence

To know nothing is the happiest life.

When you're really laughing, you feel like a little kid, and nothing matters.

It's something I've noticed with my two children - children frequently know and don't know at the same time. They are aware of aspects of the world that are a little bit shadowy, and they choose not to engage with them.

In 'Changeling,' I tried to show something you'd never see nowadays - a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest.

I wonder if the nursery and the chamber of horrors are as far apart as people think?

The child in each of us must be nurtured - that often makes us the best.

Attacking innocent people is always obscene.

One of my favourite games as a child was to dress up and improvise. Acting seemed obvious.

You can never guess what a kid's going to find funny - besides, you know, an obvious fart joke here and there.

Life isn't so complicated for children. They have more time to think about the really important things. That's why I occasionally moralise in my children's books in a way I wouldn't dare when writing for adults.

If the child has not an object that it can occupy itself with, it feels ennui; for it does not yet know how to occupy itself with itself.

You, Lowell, beloved poet of many, what do you know of the dirt and the dark deliveries of the necessary? What do you know of dignity hard-achieved, and dignity lost through innocence, and dignity lost by sacrifice for a cause one cannot name. What do you know about getting fat against your will, and turning into a clown of an arriviste baron when you would rather be an eagle or a count, or rarest of all, some natural aristocrat from these damned democratic states.

To become a happy person have a clean soul, eyes that see romance in the commonplace, a child's heart, and spiritual simplicity.

I'll continue to see things as a child. It's not so far to fall.

She looked out the window; in her eyes was the light that you see only in children arriving at a new place, or in young people still open to new influences, still curious about the world because they have not yet been scarred by life.

The ideal story should begin innocently like a fairy-tale, be frightening like a nightmare in the middle, and conclude sadly like a love story ending in separation.

These were innocent people, so innocent that they thought poverty a crime that wealth would allow them to forget. --- from the notebooks of Celal Salik

Masumiyet Müzesi, Ä°stanbul'da öpüÅŸecek bir yer bulamayan â??klara sonsuza kadar aç?k kalacakt?r.

But in my rebellious way I think that people have to be able to start over, just as I believed that a little girl has to be able to stay an innocent child her whole life long if she wants to

Only imbeciles are innocent.

Yeni bir mekana, bir eve ilk defa gelmiÅŸ çocuklar?n, hayat?n sillesini daha yemediÄŸi için hala her ÅŸeye kar?? merakl? ve aç?k kalabilen genç insanlar?n yapabildiÄŸi gibi pencereden d??ar?ya ilgiyle bakt?.

No era en absoluto de esos padres que riñen, prohíben y castigan. Especialmente en los primeros años de mi infancia, cuando salía por ahí y jugaba con él, sentía que el mundo era un lugar divertido al que el hombre venía para ser feliz.

Em seus olhos havia a luz que só se vê em crianças que chegam a um lugar novo, ou nos jovens ainda abertos a novas influências, ainda curiosos quanto ao mundo porque ainda não foram calejados pela vida.

Si può giocare tutto il giorno, ma sentirsi molto più seri di chiunque altro. Prendere sul serio l'essenza e l'immediatezza della vita con un'ingenuità propria solo dei bambini.