Quotes About Innocence

Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.

The rat gave birth. Six little ones...cute baby rats... None of them are like Hitler.

Something in the heart of most human beings simply cannot abide pain inflicted on the innocent, especially children. Even broken men serving in the worst correctional facilities will often first take out their own rage on those who have caused suffering to children. Even in such a world of relative morality, causing harm to a child is still considered absolutely wrong. Period!

We are all born artists. … Almost everything kids do is art.

He radiated the innocence that marks the absolute rejection of prudence.

La infancia es un periodo en el que el tiempo y el espacio se mezclan.

Even as he spoke, the boy appeared to have forgotten the subject, as if it was a balloon he had abandoned to the sky.

In a big city, there are always fires somewhere. And there are always crimes somewhere, too. God, despairing of burning away crime with fire , perhaps distributed crime and fire in equal quantities. Thus crime is never consumed by fire, while innocence can be burned up. That's why insurance companies prosper. My guilt, however--in order that it might become a pure thing immune to fire, must not my innocence first pass through the fire?

Whenever I look at Daisuke, I start thinking about…a life that's filled with only pure thoughts…

I stared at a tree against dusk Till it was a girl Standing beside a country road Shucking cane with her teeth. She looked up & smiled & waved. Lost in what hurts, In what tasted good, could she Ever learn there's no love In sugar?

babies and children

Children are the boldest philosophers. They enter life naked, not covered by the smallest fig leaf of dogma, absolutes, creeds. This is why every question they ask is so absurdly naïve and so frighteningly complex.

Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children.

Children are so innocent and full of life. They have no expectations, no misgivings and thus, no frustration.

Children and babies should be held in the most sacred regard. We feel that they're the most natural and true magicians.

Can you be a little baby? The baby howls all day, yet its throat never gets hoarse - harmony at its height! The baby makes fists all day, yet its fingers never get cramped - virtue is all it holds to. The baby stares all day without blinking its eyes - it has no preferences in the world of externals.

Immaturity isn't something to aspire to, but childlike faith is a valuable commodity in God's Kingdom.

I really enjoyed being a blonde. Men were more friendly and flirtatious. My face looked more worldly. It took the innocence away. It could be the new me.

The Greatness of our Dreams depends on the Purity of our Heart.

We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children. War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.

Things that are truly innocent don't need to be labelled as such.

These kids have no innocence anymore

I understand he's not guilty of anything except maybe loving too much. This boy, he is just ... mine.

Children are happy because they have the power of finding happiness in the simplest things.