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Our purity lies in our originality. Our intuition lies in our innocence. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

There are times where excessive innocence seems so monstrous that it becomes hateful. — Gaston Leroux

While you're finding evidence of innocence, you also find evidence that points to other people. — Peter Jackson

I project a definite innocence. A lot of that is just the way I grew up. — River Phoenix

Who else but me is ever going to read these letters? — Anne Frank

Jesse Jackson, when I met him, he had an innocence about him which is still very much a part of him today. — Jackie Jackson

Those who judge children in their innocence, prove themselves the lesser of character and the greater of ignorance. — Wes Fesler

Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it; when innocence and bold truth are always ready for expression. — William Congreve

The innocent is the person who explains nothing — Albert Camus

Who knows nothing base, Fears nothing known. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

When you laugh with good-hearted innocence at your own creations, you are free. — Barbara Marciniak

I live with regrets - the bittersweet loss of innocence - the red track of the moon upon the lake - the inability to return and do it again ... — John Geddes

Good friends will allow you to be as innocent and free as a child when in private, and as wise and mature as an adult when in public. — Criss Jami

This was me before I knew about anything hard, when my whole life was packed lunches and art projects and spelling quizzes. — Nina LaCour

Sometimes a certain innocence is good, but not about yourself. — Christopher Walken

Innocence as we understand it in our culture is very theatrical. The flip side is, if you're charming enough, you can get away with anything. — Susan Choi

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

There is no sanctity. This is the downfall of innocence. — Nadege Richards

Never mourn the loss of innocence, because it always brings the much greater gain of wisdom. — Erica Goros

Take from a man his freedom or his goods and you may have taken his innocence, almost his humanity, as well. — C.S. Lewis

Where was my guardian angel when I needed him most? If only I knew. — A. Esquivel

He can feel them, reaching out for the child, groping their way to its purity ... — J. Valor

The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue. — John Lancaster Spalding

That little girl was dead and in her place stood a cold-blooded killer. — Reyna Pryde

She was innocence and sweetness, happiness and light. — A.G. Howard

Through Love and through Beauty, we achieve immortality. — Jewel

Yet there was something about Phoebe Kitzke. An innocence, maybe. No, that wasn't right. It was how she seemed trusting. More fool her. Or maybe him. — Susan Mallery

A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot. — Alan Beck

Men are as innocent as the morning to the unsuspicious. — Henry David Thoreau

There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin — Hozier

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

He thought that if there were a God, His essence was in the virtuous innocence of the children. — Pete Conrad

Love is a fault; so be it. Fantine was innocence floating high over fault. — Victor Hugo

Maybe heaven was innocence, limbo was ignorance, and hell was fiery illumination. — Kimberly Sabatini

The essence of the moon, gathered by a virgin, added to the death of innocence. [Sylvian] — Karen Maitland

The world had little patience or concern for innocence. — Gillian Anderson

Her face lit up; illuminated by the enlightenment of recognition and the innocence of surprise. — Joss Sheldon

If the Holy Communion touched my teeth, I thought that was a mortal sin — Edna O'Brien

There may be always a time of innocence.
There is never a place. — Wallace Stevens

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

Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door. — William Blake

Now, I want to remember all this. My life has known days of innocence when I had only to close my eyes in order not to see. — Albert Memmi

But there was something so admirable about her innocence that he would not insult her by tarnishing it. — Eve Edwards

The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves but who think others are. — Josh Billings

We would be a few years younger,if every day we meditated for five minutes on the meanings of the word innocence. — Alexandra Vasiliu

A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Beauty with innocence is a double beauty! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever. — John Updike

How but in custom and in ceremony are innocence and beauty born? — W.B.Yeats

The weakness then of infant limbs, not its will, is its innocence. — Augustine Of Hippo

To be a writer you need to see things as they are, and to see things as they are you need a certain basic innocence. — Tobias Wolff

World & people only seem unlovable due to toxins & lies they've been fed. Release distortions of mind. Return all to innocence & freedom — Jay Woodman

One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence. — Jodi Picoult

In the inner place where true artists create there exists a pure child. — Lawren Harris

Is there innocence in ignorance? And if there is, do we tolerate other for their innocence's sake? — Claire North

The feeble-minded, the neurotic, the criminal, perhaps, also, the artist, have unpredictability and perverted innocence in common. — Truman Capote

The innocent must not suffer. — Agatha Christie

Soul of a victim tends to prove her innocence. — Toba Beta

His own naivety taunted him like a flicker of madness. — Jane Harper

Every creative act involves a new innocence or perception, liberated from the cataract of accepted belief. — Arthur Koestler

The courage of children and beasts is a function of innocence. — Annie Dillard

Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Innocence is a desirable thing, a dainty thing, an appealing thing, in its place; but carried too far, it is merely ridiculous. — Dorothy Parker

Even Hauser feigned innocence. — Stuart Gibbs

The graceful flowers of innocence are more valuable than the laurel crown of fame. — Franz Grillparzer

Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in doing good. — Joseph Butler

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

Halloween wraps fear in innocence, as though it were a lightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat ... — Nick Gordon

Innocence invites protection, yet we might be smarter to protect ourselves against it ... — Megan Johns

I think Indian women are very beautiful. They have a sense of elegance and innocence. — Pierce Brosnan

People are entitled to the presumption of innocence. — Barney Frank

To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence
an exemption granted only to invariable virtue. — Samuel Johnson

Innocence is drowned in anarchy. The best lack conviction given time to think, and the worst are full of passion without mercy. — Joni Mitchell

Young children see the innocence of life, while some adults live in innocence. — Jan Jansen

Say what you will, dear sister, we do what we do for the promise of our youth. Yet it is always they who scar beneath the points of daggers. — Chris Galford

...and his eyes had that splendid innocence, that opaque blue candour of the satanically fallen. ~ The French Lieutenant's Woman — John Fowles

Let the purity and innocence of a child be your one and only religion! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Girls now lose their virginity long before they lose their innocence. — Chloe Thurlow

All happiness is a form of innocence. — Marguerite Yourcenar

Innocence is really just presence at its simplest. — Boyd Varty

We speak of love when we destroy nature.
It sounds like innocence of cruel arrogance. — Toba Beta

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence. — Angela Carter

I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence. — Donna Tartt

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. — Albert Camus

I didn't do what they said I did. I may have done enough so that I don't know if I can prove my innocence. — Dick Morris

Monsieur, innocence is its own crown! Innocence has only to act to be noble! She is as august in rags as fleur de lys. — Victor Hugo

Forgiveness is not born out of innocence or ignorance. Forgiveness is born of love. — Rick Yancey

But before we face experience, that miserable enemy, let us have some more innocence, just for a while. — Martin Amis

Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence. — Mason Cooley

We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Men, and women too, are unpredictable creatures. You have seen little of this. I wonder now if your innocence is enough protection for you. — Cynthia Voigt

Work, love, courage and hope,
Make me good and help me cope! — Anne Frank

In your heart there is innocence waiting to be free. — Ray Davies

Natural Man, in our current version, is a disgruntled adolescent. — Mason Cooley

The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him. — John Marshall

Innocence does not protect you from the evil designs of others. — Frederick Lenz

Innocence is the highest gift one gives to the man with whom she will spend her life....her husband, and no other, is entitled to that gift. — Cheryl Ann Smith

There [is] no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

White is The color for innocence, but iT can Be So Dangerous. — Jan Jansen

Innocence has nothing to dread. — Jean Racine