Innocence Quotes - Page 32

• Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely; we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.

  Jewel

  Being Sad, Lost Friendship, Needs

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• I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

  Angelina Jolie

  Children, Able, Return

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• Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

  Carl Jung

  Children, Knowledge, Parenting

  Carl Gustav Jung, Karl Kerényi (1951). “Introduction to a science of mythology: the myth of the Divine Child and the mysteries of Eleusis”

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• I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.

  Franz Kafka

  Book, Ignorance, Law

  Franz Kafka (1983). “The Penguin complete novels of Franz Kafka”

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• Children, Never look Back!" and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory . for children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles.

  Milan Kundera

  Memories, Children, Past

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• No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It's the most important thing.

  Federico Fellini

  Childhood, Important, Matter

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• They come to us, these restless dead, Shrouds woven from the words of men, With trumpets sounding overhead (The walls of hope have grown so thin And all our vaunted innocence Has withered in this endless frost) That promise little recompense For all we risk, for all we've lost.

  Mira Grant

  Wall, Men, Risk

  Mira Grant (2010). “Feed: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.111, Hachette UK

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• O God, I love you to the edge of madness, Venetia, but I'm not mad yet--not so mad that I don't know how disastrous it might be to you--to us both! You don't realize what an advantage I should be taking of your innocence!

  Georgette Heyer

  Love You, Mad, Might

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• It leaned forward, elbows on its knees, all amusement vanishing from its features, leaving its chiseled visage quietly regal, dignified. "I give you my word, Gabrielle O'Callaghan," it said softly. "I will protect you." "Right. The word of the blackest fairy, the legendary liar, the great deceiver," she mocked. How dare it offer its word like it might actually mean something? A muscle leapt in its jaw. "That is not all I have been, Gabrielle. I have been, and am, many things." "Oh, of course, silly me, I left out consummate seducer and ravager of innocence.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Liars, Silly, Mean

  Karen Marie Moning (2004). “The Immortal Highlander”, p.70, Delacorte Press

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• And his knowledge remained woefully incomplete, Harry! That which Voldemort does not value, he takes no trouble to comprehend. Of house-elves and children's tales, of love, loyalty, and innocence, Voldemort knows and understands nothing. Nothing. That they all have a power beyond his own, a power beyond the reach of any magic, is a truth he has never grasped.

  J. K. Rowling

  Loyalty, Children, House

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• Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.

  Saint Augustine

  Mercy, Confession, Trusted

  Saint Augustine (1998). “The Confessions”, p.181, OUP Oxford

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• This isn't about guilt or innocence, he says. The dinosaurs weren't morally good or bad, but they're all dead.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Guilt, Dinosaurs

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• Look past the violence. There is a wonderful brimming spirit of innocence and fun.

  Don DeLillo

  Fun, Past, Looks

  Don DeLillo (1985). “White noise”, Viking Pr

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• It is, I suppose, the common grief of children at having to protect their parents from reality. It is bitter for the young to see what awful innocence adults grow into, that terrible vulnerability that must be sheltered from the rodent mire of childhood.

  Katherine Dunn

  Children, Grief, Reality

  FaceBook post by Katherine Dunn from Aug 29, 2016

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• India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passion and abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that comes from long experience of pain and pleasure; and over and over a gain she has renewed her childhood and youth and age

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Pain, Passion, Maturity

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1961). “The Quintessence of Nehru”

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• Drifting snowflakes brushed her face as light as lover’s kisses, and melted on her cheeks. At the center of the garden, beside the statue of the weeping woman that lay broken and half-buried on the ground, she turned her face up to the sky and closed her eyes. She could feel the snow on her lashes, taste it on her lips. It was the taste of Winterfell. The taste of innocence. The taste of dreams.

  George R. R. Martin

  Dream, Eye, Kissing

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Storm of Swords: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Three”, p.1098, Bantam

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• Where were you born?" "On a battlefield," [Yossarian] answered. "No, no. In what state were you born?" "In a state of innocence.

  Joseph Heller

  States, Born, Battlefields

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• Forever, reading has been central, the necessary fix, the support system. Her life has been informed by reading. She has read not just for distraction, sustenance, to pass the time, but she has read in a state of primal innocence, reading for enlightenment, for instruction, even. ... She is as much a product of what she has read as of the way in which she has lived; she is like millions of others built by books, for whom books are an essential foodstuff, who could starve without.

  Penelope Lively

  Book, Reading, Support Systems

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• The beloved's innocence brutalizes the lover. As the singing of a mad person behind you on the train enrages you, its beautiful animal-like teeth shining amid black planes of paint. As Helen enrages history. Senza uscita.

  Anne Carson

  Beautiful, Animal, Mad

  Anne Carson (2015). “Plainwater: Essays and Poetry”, p.88, Vintage

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• Adults had the notion that juveniles needed to suffer. Only when they had suffered enough to wipe out most of their naturally joyous spirits and innocence were they staid enough to be considered mature. An adult was essentially a broken-down child.

  Piers Anthony

  Children, Broken, Suffering

  Piers Anthony (2002). “Centaur Aisle”, p.7, Del Rey

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• What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed.

  Hanif Kureishi

  People, Quality

  Hanif Kureishi (2010). “Intimacy”, p.9, Faber & Faber

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• We can all pretend to be cynical and scheming, but when we’re faced with purity and innocence, the cynical mask drops off.

  Federico Fellini

  Purity And Innocence, Cynical, Mask

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• Why then you're as mad as me. No, madder. For I distrust 'reality' and its moron mother, the universe, while you fasten your innocence to fallible devices which pretend at happy endings.

  Ray Bradbury

  Mother, Reality, Mad

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• Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence; it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right.

  Anne Lamott

  Beautiful, Writing, Belief

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.205, Anchor

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• He wanted to care, and he could not care. For he had gone away and he could never go back anymore. The gates were closed, the sun was down, and there was no beauty left but the gray beauty of steel that withstands all time. Even the grief he could have borne was left behind in the country of youth, of illusion, of the richness of life, where his winter dreams had flourished.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dream, Country, Growing Up

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2004). “The Complete Short Stories, Essays, and a Play”, p.530, Simon and Schuster

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