I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.
The innocent one is he who does not explain, for whom life is both a mystery and a total light, one who does not complain. . . For innocence admits of neither regret nor dispute. The innocent one assumes all responsibility.
All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story.
To the innocent there are neither cherubim nor angels.
We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.
The thing I deplore the most is, anyone who rapes anyone's innocence, in anyway. So a guy who physically rapes a woman or a child or physically hits a child. When that period of innocence is raped - that person loses something that they can never get it back. To me when innocence is raped, that is the sickest and filthiest thing.
Lend sat up,craning his neck to see down my shirt,which I hurriedly pushed back into place. Last time I checked, you couldn't see souls. He shrugged,an exaggerated look of innocence on his face. Still,it wouldn't hurt for me to try,would it?You have got to be the most sefless boyfriend alive. Like I said,anything worthwhile is worth making sacrifices for. Speaking of which,weren't you going to give me a tongue demonstration?
I doubt not then but innocence shall makeFalse accusation blush, and tyrannyTremble at patience.
It's only in innocence you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.
Behind innocence there gathers a clotted mass of superstition, of twisted and misdirected impulse; clandestine flirtation, fads, and ragtime fill the unventilated mind.
It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. To be at last in such secure innocence that one can juggle with the universe and the stars, to be so good that one can treat everything as a joke - that may be, perhaps, the real end and final holiday of human souls.
For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.
There [is] no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age.
I would love to be fooled. The innocence of child for the first time, seeing something and being in wonder is something that I long for because I'm tainted.
As long as you stay as a good hearted person, you will keep the innocence in your face.
If there's anything to learn from the history of movies, it's that corruption leads to further corruption, not to innocence.
I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.
Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.
The quality of artistry is the capacity to assume innocence at will, the quality of experiencing innocence as if for the first time.