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Quotes About Innocence

Burning and torture here lasts but a little while, but if I die with a lie on my soul, I shall be tortured forever. I am innocent.
~ Unknown
My music is best understood by children and animals.
~ Igor Stravinsky
Watching my four year old daughter dance I cannot break free of her.
~ Ikkyu
A kindergarten teacher watched her classroom of children while they were drawing. She occasionally walked around to see each child's work. As she got to one little girl who was working very hard, she asked her what the drawing was. The girl replied, "I'm drawing heaven." The teacher paused and said, "But no one knows what heaven looks like." Without looking up from her drawing, the girl replied, "They will in a minute.
~ Unknown
I have always believed in the magic of childhood and think that if you get your life right that magic should never end. I feel that if adults cannot enjoy a children's book properly there is something wrong with either the book or the adult reading it. This of course, is just a smart way of saying I don't want to grow up.
~ Colin Thompson
The true message of naivety is believing we know, All there is to know.
~ Unknown
Thinking back to a time when everything seemed so simple.
~ Unknown
I shall set down in a few lines how upright Maldoror was during his early years, when he lived happy. There: done.
~ Comte de Lautreamont
As he prepared to ride on, he chuckled at the thought of the wolf entering the sheepfold. He would not ride with fire and destruction. The shepherd did not frighten his own pretty lambs.
~ Conn Iggulden
The things I've seen ... no, the things I've done ." He shuddered slightly as memories flashed into his mind. "I was as innocent. I thought I understood the world, but I was little more than a child.
~ Conn Iggulden
You used to be such a sweet creature. So trusting." He tched gently. "Whatever happened to you?" "You.
~ Connie Brockway
To admit frankly, our capacity for evil hinges on our breaking through our pseudoinnocence. So long as we preserve our one-dimensional thinking, we can cover up our deeds by pleading innocent. This antediluvian escape from conscience is no longer possible. We are responsible for the effect of our actions, and we are also responsible for becoming as aware as we can of these effects.
~ Connie Zweig
I'm a big kid, I'm a kid at heart, so I still love the classic family films, such as the great Warner Bros film 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory' - not the remake, but the original. It's still one of the best movies, hands down, ever made, and of course that goes back to the ingenuity of the characters and the storyline.
~ Corey Feldman
It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood.
~ Corey Feldman
Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.
~ Cornelia Otis Skinner
It is as true as breath. It is as important as the words of children.
~ Craig Childs
Playful footsteps, a child's footsteps dance over mud and mire. What seems a horror to eyes of age, brings joy to a child's fire.
~ Unknown
I forgot what it felt like to be young
~ Craig Silvey
Pablo Picasso initially lost custody of his inner child and had to work to get it back. "Every child is an artist," he said. "The problem is to remain an artist as we grow up.
~ Unknown
Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination," Walt Disney said. "But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it.
~ Unknown
The poet Charles Baudelaire got it right when he observed in 1863, "Genius is only childhood recovered at will."35
~ Unknown
Sin embargo recuerdo: una vez en mi juventud fui feliz compartiendo el único cigarrillo en un cuarto de pensión fui feliz haciendo el amor a la intemperie entre los juncos fui feliz sin hotel ni casa ni teléfono ni lencería de encaje. Tenía solo dieciocho años.
~ Unknown
Even a man who is pure in heart, And says his prayers by night, May become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms, And the moon is full and bright.
~ Curt Siodmak
One of the reasons children's energetic boundaries absorb the energies of others is that children are innocent. They love. They haven't yet renounced their hearts, the part of our body that generates the largest energetic field. Children don't soak up others' negativity to hurt themselves; they do it because they love and want to help their loved ones.
~ Unknown