Innocence Quotes - page 7

I enjoyed the innocence of unhappiness and of helplessness; could I blame myself for a sin which attracted me, which flooded me with pleasure precisely to the extent it brought me to despair? (Georges Bataille)
Where were you born?" "On a battlefield," [Yossarian] answered. "No, no. In what state were you born?" "In a state of innocence. View quote
Joseph Heller
No man under Heaven deserves these sacrifices from us women. Men! They are the enemies of our innocence and our peace - they drag us away from our parents' love and our sisters' friendship - they take us body and soul to themselves, and fasten our helpless lives to theirs as they chain up a dog to his kennel. View quote
Wilkie Collins
The trouble is that once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you've seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out. There's no innocence. Either way, you're accountable. View quote
Arundhati Roy
Her face was that of a boy gang-leader, smooth with the innocence of one who, by the same quirk as blinds a man to the mystery of whistling or riding a bicycle, has never mastered the art of affection or compassion or properly learned the moral dichotomy. View quote
Anthony Burgess
Can it be that chance has made me one of those women so immersed in one man that, whether they are barren or not, they carry with them to the grave the shrivelled innocence of an old maid? View quote
Colette
I have denied my eyes, both inner and outer. I am not a child, or virgin, or modest wife, fearing to offend. No one owns my eyes now but me. If I have not the stomach by now to look upon any sight in the world, good or evil, beautiful or vile, when shall I? It is far too late for innocence. My only hope is the much more painful consolation of wisdom. Which can grow out of knowledge alone. Give me my true eyes. I want to see. I have to know. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
Once a child is confronted with the concept of death there's a certain innocence that goes. View quote
Patsy Kensit
One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence. View quote
Jodi Picoult
They confused beauty with innocence and harmlessness. View quote
Cassandra Clare
Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted. (Anita Brookner)
At sixty I look back on a life of deep disappointments, of withered hopes, of unlooked for suffering, of severe discipline. Yet I have sometimes tasted exquisite joy and have found solace for many a woe in the innocence and earnest love of Theodore's children. But for this my life would have little to record of mundane pleasures. View quote
Sarah Grimké
I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there. View quote
Donna Tartt
I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence. View quote
Donna Tartt
To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery. View quote
Ouida
For the first time I understood Goethe's laughter, the laughter of the immortals. It was a laughter without an object. It was simply light and lucidity. It was that which is left over when a true man has passed through all the sufferings, vices, mistakes, passions, and misunderstandings of men and got through to eternity and the world of space. And eternity was nothing else than the redemption of time, its return to innocence, so to speak, and its transformation again to space. View quote
Hermann Hesse
Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself. View quote
Joan Didion
This isn't about guilt or innocence, he says. The dinosaurs weren't morally good or bad, but they're all dead. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
Time won't fly, it's like I'm paralyzed by it. I'd like to be my old self again, but I'm still trying to find it. After plaid shirt days and nights when you made me your own, Now you mail back my things and I walk home alone.But you keep my old scarf from that very first week, 'Cause it reminds you of innocence and it smells like me. You can't get rid of it 'cause you remember it all too well, yeah. View quote
Taylor Swift
When there is not enough religion in the pulpit to organize a crusade against sin; nor justice in the court house to promptly punish crime; nor manhood enough in the nation to put a sheltering arm about innocence and virtue----if it needs lynching to protect woman's dearest possession from the ravening human beasts----then I say lynch, a thousand times a week if necessary. View quote
Rebecca Latimer Felton
When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it. (Kazuo Ishiguro)
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Innocence is very far from finding as much protection as crime. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
And I won't break and I won't bend, But someday soon we'll sail away To innocence and the bitter end. And I won't break and I won't bend, And with the last breath we ever take We're gonna get back to the simple life again. View quote
Elton John
I used to think that New York City Fell from grace with God. And innocence abroad Waged a war for the underdog. When the snow falls And Central Park looks like a Christmas card, I just looked beyond the bagman And the madness that makes this city hard. View quote
Elton John