608 Quotes About Innocence

When they became wicked, they started to talk about brotherhood and humaneness and understood these ideas. When they became criminals, they invented justice and lay down complete codes of law to maintain it, and to secure these codes they erected a guillotine. They remembered only a tiny bit of what they had lost; they didn’t even want to believe that they had once been innocent and happy. They even laughed at the possibility of this former happiness of theirs and called it a dream.

Innocence paired with natural beauty creates artistic values for eternity.

Tu inocencia alimenta mi arrogancia.

There were clouds closed fast round the moon. And one by one, gardens died.

The only people who cling to tradition at the expense of real people are sad, angry dwellers in the darkness who don’t even understand how pathetic they are, clutching and grasping at the things they remember without ever understanding that the world was never that simple to begin with. The future is bright, it is shining, and it belongs to everyone.

Of course, there are those who blow you kisses or try to take hold of your arm, but they're definitely knocking on the wrong door.

If the prosecution does its job, you’re guilty. If they fuck up, you’re not guilty, but you’re never innocent.

Children grow up and discover that the world is not as it seemed from within the four walls of their homes. Humankind as a whole does the same.

Goodbye…? Oh no, please. Can't we go back to page one and do it all over again?