Quotes About Innocence

They've seen too much to be children.

Nice," I tell him. "So you literally steal candy from babies.

We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is to play, to enjoy itself, to be a child. If we merely look to the end of the process, the purpose of life is death

That the gods never concern themselves with the protection of the innocent, only with the punishment of the guilty.

Narcissists are neither carefree nor innocent. They have learned to play the power game, to seduce and to manipulate. They are always thinking about how people see and respond to them. And they must stay in control because loss of control evokes their fear of insanity.

The wounds produced by the traumas of our life may heal, but the scars remain. We cannot return to our original state of innocence. There will always be some limitation upon our being.

To understand contamination in modern terms we should think of purity as innocence.

As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame,I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

Unlearn'd, he knew no schoolman's subtle art,No language, but the language of the heart.

In wit a man, simplicity a child.

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

What will a child learn sooner than a song?

Com'è felice il destino dell'incolpevole vestale! Dimentica del mondo, dal mondo dimenticata. Infinita letizia della mente candida! Accettata ogni preghiera e rinunciato a ogni desiderio.

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Even paradise had its serpent.

It is always the silly things that remind me

Scarlett laughed aloud without knowing it. It was a child's laughter, free and unconsidered, expressing pure joyful surprise. "Oh, look!" she said. "Oh, look!" She was so enraptured that she was unaware of Rhett's eyes watching her, instead of the horses.

His eyes. Unclouded by cynicism, questioning but with a certainty that there were answers, warmly innocent in some strange way. A child's eyes, she thought. Even more irresistible when set in a man's face.

When held up to the window pane, What fixed my baby stare? The glory of the glittering rain, And newness everywhere.

I remember the Washington in which I grew up as a genuine small town. Maybe this is true for everyone, that we all feel that the times in which we grew up were simpler, less complex.

I've kissed in the rain so many times. I think one of my first kisses was in the rain. It was in Washington, D.C., with some kid named Dash, in eighth grade. It was in the rain.

You think that somehow they didn't come after me to get rid of me because my vote is the deciding vote in the health care bill? Then, ladies and gentlemen, you live today in a world that is so innocent as to not understand what's going on in Washington, D.C.

'Matilda' was my favorite movie to film and my favorite to watch, as well.

When you're a kid, you lay in the grass and watch the clouds going over, and you literally don't have a thought in your mind. It's purely meditation, and we lose that.