608 Quotes About Innocence

The hopeless hope is one of the early harbingers of spring, bespeaking an innocent belief that the world might right its wrongs and reverse its curses simply because the trees are coming into leaf.

I wanted to tell her to never change, to never let her heart get trampled down and hard. But she’d remember that, too. And right now she didn’t know that there was any other way to be. That her heart, her soul, could ever be anything other than soft and lovely and fertile. And she needed to stay that way as long as she could.

There's something about seeing people when they have just wake up--before they have a chance to put on the face they show everyone else. There's like this last hint of innocence.

...[I]t is pain to think of innocence in ruin.

In innocence everything has its truest meaning.

Innocence expresses itself to a man so blind!

You lost your innocence when you grew up, all right, everyone knew that, but did you have to lose your hope, as well?

I see you kneeling in church—stained only by colored windows

Innocence is an infinitely fragile thing and thought can sometimes injure, even destroy it. - Pg. 254