Once a child is confronted with the concept of death there's a certain innocence that goes.

Tis e'er the lot of the innocent in the world, to fly to the wolf for succor from the lion.

If Edith Wharton lived in the Age of Innocence, surely we now live in the Age of Deception.

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.

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

A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.

In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting.

I do feel that softness for the vulnerability and the innocence in our world, including my own.

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

You might call this innocence. I had a sense of another world that had not been spoken of to me.

I doubt not then but innocence shall makeFalse accusation blush, and tyrannyTremble at patience.

The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.

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

Relationships don't thrive because the guilty are punished but because the innocent are merciful.

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

I truly believe in O.J.'s innocence, and unless they find him guilty, I will continue to support him.

The price of wisdom is innocence. So, I have definitely become wiser but sadly a little less innocent.

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.

There are those who believe in my innocence and those who believe in my guilt. There is no in-between.

In your present-moment awareness, awaken to your innocence, your trust, your love, your eternal being.

If there is innocence on Earth again, I tend to imagine it in more [Henry David]Thoreau sort of terms.

Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.

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

A villain who shares one's guilt is inevitably more attractive than a hero convinced of one's innocence.

When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

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.

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

It is hard and perhaps impossible for many people to recognize the difference between innocence and naiveté.

For I see that then I was still all in a state of innocence, but that innocence, once lost, is lost forever.

'The Muppets' is really about innocence and charm and sweetness and light and having hope - and stupid gags.

Tony Curtis was a joy to work with. He had a curious innocence that is very young and wise at the same time.

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

I haven't lost my innocence particularly. I'm always ready to pretend I haven't. Yeah, it is a shame in a way.

Innocence is indeed a glorious thing; but, unfortunately, it does not keep very well and is easily led astray.

India has the purity, the innocence. India knows what it wants. There is a direction. It has so much to offer.

I want to make things that put me in the position of innocence, that recreate the feeling of innocence in you.

This isn't about guilt or innocence, he says. The dinosaurs weren't morally good or bad, but they're all dead.

The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence.

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

The pose of innocence is as mandatory as the ability to eat banquet food and endure the scourging of the press.

It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.

It is Australian innocence to love The naturally excessive and be proud Of a thoroughbred gelding who ran fast.

We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children.

Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'.

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