Innocence Quotes - Page 30

• Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixture of more happy days!

  Lord Byron

  Happiness, Water, Mixtures

  Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.100, Routledge

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• Beautiful as sweet, And young as beautiful, and soft as young, And gay as soft, and innocent as gay!

  Edward Young

  Beautiful, Sweet, Gay

  'The Complaint: Night Thoughts' (1742-5) 'Night 3' l. 81

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• Yet for all the childish innocence of its bizarre glamor, Venice developed an atmosphere, or became the outpost of a sinister deep-rooted power.... It is a place of dreams, not only the tinseled ones.

  Fritz Leiber

  Dream, Venice, Atmosphere

  Fritz Leiber (2014). “The Black Gondolier: And Other Stories”, p.10, Open Road Media

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• A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.

  Henry Miller

  Writing, Men, Trying

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

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• The word 'innocence' means 'incapable of being hurt'. To have a mind that is not capable of being hurt, does not mean that it has built up a lot of resistance - on the contrary, such a mind is dying to everything that it has known in which there has been conflict, pleasure and pain. Only then is the mind innocent; that means it can love. You cannot love with memory, love is not a matter of remembrance, of time.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Hurt, Pain, Memories

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• Innocence as we understand it in our culture is very theatrical. The flip side is, if youre charming enough, you can get away with anything.

  Susan Choi

  Culture, Flip, Sides

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• People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Evil, People, Natural

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• Emotional truths woven by lawyers in the court of law are apparently more important than the truths of actual events. I have grown to fear for those whose innocence became trapped within the legal system.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Emotional, Law, Important

  Neil Degrasse Tyson (2010). “The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist”, p.94, Prometheus Books

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• Writing itself, if not misunderstood and abused, becomes a way of empowering the writing self. It converts anger and disappointment into deliberate and durable aggression, the writer's main source of energy. It converts sorrow and self-pity into empathy, the writer's main means of relating to otherness. Similarly, his wounded innocence turns into irony, his silliness into wit, his guilt into judgment, his oddness into originality, his perverseness into his stinger.

  Ted Solotaroff

  Disappointment, Mean, Writing

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• Not since Lord of the Flies has a novelist written with such perceptiveness about the potential for harm that lurks within the innocence of childhood.

  Paula Sharp

  Childhood, Novelists, Lord

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• It takes mystical insight to see the beauty and innocence in each other, even when that is not what we are showing to the world. That is why God is needed in intimate relationships, to move us beyond the perceptions that can so often poison love.

  Marianne Williamson

  Moving, Intimate Relationships, Perception

  Source: www.awarenessmag.com

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• Every time we focus on someone else's darkness, we are blocking our own view of the light. We think the person we are involved with has attacked us or has withheld love from us, when they really haven't. We focus on their guilt instead of their innocence. Frequently people are just being themselves and we start projecting our own childhood dramas onto them, pushing away the very love we want so much.

  Marianne Williamson

  Drama, Block, Thinking

  Source: www.awarenessmag.com

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• The innocence of those who grind the faces of the poor, but refrain from pinching the bottoms of their neighbour's wives! The innocence of Ford, the innocence of Rockefeller! The nineteenth century was the Age of Innocence--that sort of innocence. With the result that we're now almost ready to say that a man is seldom more innocently employed than when making love.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Wife, Greed

  Aldous Huxley (1955). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.

  Moliere

  Attention, World, Safe

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• Being young you have not known
  The fool's triumph, nor yet
  Love lost as soon as won,
  Nor the best labourer dead
  And all the sheaves to bind.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Lost Love, Triumph

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.99, Wordsworth Editions

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• We find that Good and Evil happen alike to all Men on this Side of the Grave; and as the principle Design of Tragedy is to raise Commiseration and Terror in the Minds of the Audience, we shall defeat this great End, if we always make Virtue and Innocence happy and successful.

  Joseph Addison

  Successful, Men, Evil

  Joseph Addison (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)”, p.5878, Delphi Classics

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• But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prime
  Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime;
  An age that melts with unperceived decay,
  And glides in modest Innocence away

  Samuel Johnson

  Age, Decay, Virtue

  Samuel Johnson, Niall Rudd (1981). “Johnson's Juvenal: London and The Vanity of Human Wishes”, Bloomsbury Academic

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• An indiscriminate distrust of human nature is the worst consequence of a miserable condition, whether brought about by innocence or guilt. And though want of suspicion more than want of sense, sometimes leads a man into harm; yet too much suspicion is as bad as too little sense.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Guilt, Too Much

  Herman Melville (2015). “Israel Potter: Works of Melville”, p.39, 谷月社

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• Cheap thrill: moral outrage revels in its own innocence and in the guilt of the wicked Others.

  Mason Cooley

  Wicked, Guilt, Thrill

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• Natural Man, in our current version, is a disgruntled adolescent.

  Mason Cooley

  Nature, Men, Natural

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• Knowing what [Christ] knew , knowing all about mankind--ah! who would have thought that the crime is not so much to make others die, but to die oneself--confronted day and night with his innocent crime, it became too difficult to go on. It was better to get it over with, to not defend himself, to die, in order not to be the only one to have survived, and to go elsewhere, where, perhaps, he would be supported.

  Albert Camus

  God, Night, Order

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• But who would dare condemn me in this world with no judges, where no one is innocent!

  Albert Camus

  Judging, Guilt, World

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• The more I accuse myself, the more right I have to judge you. Even better, I make you judge yourself, which comforts me the more.

  Albert Camus

  Judging, Guilt, Comfort

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• Innocent people can get into terrible jams, too. One false move and you're in over your head.

  Ben Hecht

  Moving, Fate, People

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• ... to be "literary" appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Romance, Literature, Unending

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