We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.
all children blackmail their parents with their innocence.
To be a writer you need to see things as they are, and to see things as they are you need a certain basic innocence.
I think we look back at times past with fondness because we were younger. Life had not yet begun pecking away at our innocence like buzzards on fresh road kill.
What hope is there for innocence if it is not recognized?
I use innocence in my demeanor like a Venus flytrap.
What makes life complicated is the things that are on me and it is very hard to keep things simple. I see it as I am complicated and there is innocence to this.
I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship.
If we depart form tradition, it is out of knowledge , not innocence.
Focus on guilt will always breed fear, and focus on innocence will always breed love. Any time we project guilt onto someone else, we are fortifying the experience of guilt within ourselves. Like blood on Lady MacBeth's hands, we cannot remove our own guilty feelings as long as we are judging others.
Innocence is ashamed of nothing.
The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. If we banish modesty out of the world, she carries away with her half the virtue that is in it.
Innocence and mystery never dwell long together.
You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her.
I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence.
Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.
Innocence gave me confidence to go up against reality.
It is hard and perhaps impossible for many people to recognize the difference between innocence and naiveté.
I think what you have inside reflects very much in your face, in your expression. If you can find a kind of equilibrium in life, you never really get old, because you have that kind of ingenuity and innocence inside that gives you that brightness and that glint in your eye that generally, getting older, you lose.
One must be willing to stand alone - in the unknown, with no reference to authority or the past or any of one's conditioning. One must stand where no one has stood before in complete nakedness, innocence, and humility.