608 Quotes About Innocence

To express nostalgia for a childhood we no longer share is to deny the actual significance and humanity of children.

On n'est pas sérieux, quand on a dix-sept ans.

Childhood innocence was a hell of a drug.

If this person, I kept telling myself, was one of God’s chosen salesmen on earth, then there must be something very wrong about the whole business.

The naive woman tacitly agrees to remain "not knowing." Women who are gullible or those with injured instincts still, like flowers, turn in the direction of whatever sun is offered.

I had forgotten such innocence exists,/forgotten how it feels/ to live with neither calendars nor clocks

Hester, meanwhile, says we should live all of life back to front. We should be born old and age younger. Our baptism should be a ritual of our funeral. We should die as infants, content in our mothers' arms, having lost all our learning and all sense of disappointment. If only we could die, she says, not knowing we'd ever grieved.

The morning Mom tells me my skirt is too short, I find the lawn full of dead fledglings.

She sways in Beauty & her Grace, While the Moon beam Lits her Face, The Innocence Sparks through her Smile,As he narrates the story, of when..she walked the Aisle!