Quotes About Innocence

Sovint, de nit, em desvetlla l'enyor i faig recompte, ingenu i greu, de tantes afinitats perdudes, dels propòsits desats en un calaix per no fer nosa.

el escritor es un inimputable, como lo es un niño o un loco. Puede perpetrar actos trascendentales de consecuencias cataclísmicas, pero como un menor de edad que no calcula las consecuencias por falta de madurez, el escritor debe ser absuelto cuando se constate que de modo impredecible e involuntario ha cambiado el devenir natural de las cosas.

The boy, who himself was so compelling in the way boys can be. How he pushed his hair off his sweaty forehead, the mineral smell of him, his hand holding a pencil, holding a pencil, holding a pencil, his hand!

Perhaps all we want from reading is to return to that age when we could hold a book and cry, to that time between childhood and adolescence, the sweetest era of our lives.

Misschien lezen we alleen maar om terug te keren naar de leeftijd toen we nog konden huilen met een boek in de armen, toentertijd, tussen kinderjaren en puberteit, in de bekoorlijke schijnwerper van ons leven.

La nonna gli diede uno strattone e gli fece segno di inginocchiarsi. Obbedì, ma nel toccare l'erba che cresceva rigogliosa nella fossa sentì che i fili appuntiti gli pungevano il mento, turbando la serenità del suo animo. Provò freddo alle spalle, come se innumerevoli occhi di bambini morti gli stessero fissando la schiena. Udì innumerevoli bambini correre, scalciare e ridere.

Men ska man vara finklädd för att smaka ett päron? En barfotaunge har också smak i munnen.

When I was ten, I began to notice girls and had finally figured out that the bumps under sweaters weren't hidden grapefruit. Now they were something to be admired, at least at a distance.

Good Heaven, friend, do not trouble yourself. He will be a clever man who catches me in this way. I know all the cunning tricks and subtle devices which women use to deceive us, and how one is fooled by their dexterity, and I have taken precautions against this mischance. She whom I am marrying possesses all the innocence which may protect my forehead from evil influence.

Ah, there are no longer any children!

No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.

Anyhow, what could be more delicious and delicate than a baby rabbit?

It was with a shock of pitying surprise that she realized, in later years, that the grown-ups had missed the paradise which the children found so easily.

but she was four years, three months, and sixty-one days old when she died.

Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose by John Singer Sargent.

Qu'est-ce qu'un rire après tout? Une explosion d'enfance partagée.

Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother.

The ability to retain a child's view of the world with at the same time a mature understanding of what it means to retain it, is extremely rare - and a person who has these qualities is likely to be able to contribute something really important to our thinking.

Çocuklu?un en bütük zenginli?i,ne negin sorumsuzlu?u,ne ana kuca??n?n sonsuz güveni,ne de çocukluk denildi?inde ilk akla gelen benzeri ?eyler galiba;bence,onun en büyük zenginli?i,gelece?e inanç duyabilme duygusu.Ancak bunu yitiren çocuk,ba?ka biri olmay? ba?ar?r.ba?ka biri olmak büyümektir.

Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?

Money is an evolutionary, infantile stagnation in brain development. At the expense of money, a person seeks to return to childhood and stay there.

Naivety is a nightly sleep bandage.

Charming people are only good at seducing innocent souls.

God will not punish, or put the blame upon the innocent, nor allow the criminals to go free without paying the price of their evil deeds.