608 Quotes About Innocence

When our consciousness has become a haven of illusions, our mind may have a hard time to fight the maze in our thinking. Only anchor points from our past and the innocence of our childhood might give back the core of what we are. (“Not without the past”)

the inevitable tension between knowledge and innocence

Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.

I don’t have a philosophy: I have senses...If I talk about Nature, it’s not because I know what it is,But because I love it, and that’s why I love it,Because when you love you never know what you love,Or why you love, or what love is.Loving is eternal innocence,And the only innocence is not thinking.

Nobody's innocent... but that doesn't reset the bar on guilt.

When did you first fall in love?""I think, I first fell in lovewhen I was in fifth gradewith this boy who kept his glass ruler in the sunlight and made rainbows on my desk with it.

Sometimes I wonder what your life could have beenHad you never left that day I think of the love you hadThe naive faith in foreverAnd everything I tookWhen you leftThat daySometimes I wonder how I can move onWhen the love I pursue is stolen from youAnd my faith in forever relies on liesI wonder how I can possibly deserve Everything I tookWhen you leftThat day

All the roads I’ve taken Took me back to myself To the dreams of that little girl I once did kill inside.To the laughs of that innocent heart I’ve naively dimmed its light.Everything has led me back to me And though I’ve felt the blissing, I’ve noticed the signs I still chose not to see …

I’m not comfortable in this stadium,” I explained, trying to look calm.“I know. And you hate Fang looking at those girls. But we’re still havingfun, and Fang still loves you, and you’ll still save the world. Okay?