It is a low thing to always want to be understood. Let my innocence take care of itself.
A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread.
One trembles to think of that mysterious thing in the soul, which seems to acknowledge no human jurisdiction, but in spite of the individual's own innocence self, will still dream horrid dreams, and mutter unmentionable thoughts.
We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children.
We each begin in innocence. We all become guilty.
No sense in no sense innocence of what of not and what of delight. In no sense innocence in no sense and what in delight and not, in no sense innocence in no sense no sense what, in no sense and delight, and in no sense and delight and not in no sense and delight and not, no sense in no sense innocence and delight.
Innocence is suffering and the loss of that innocence is something to fear.
Natural Man, in our current version, is a disgruntled adolescent.
The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.
Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.
You either keep your childhood innocence or you rot!
My innocence didn't always help me, but it did preserve something in me that maybe others don't have anymore. I'm inside my bubble, you could say, and thankfully so, because I don't think daily life is always great. It protects me.
Most men die many times in their lives. The man we become invariably slaughters the child we once were. His knowledge of the world murders the babe's innocence. from Time Untime by Sherrilyn Kenyon
In your heart there is innocence waiting to be free.
The pose of innocence is as mandatory as the ability to eat banquet food and endure the scourging of the press.
Even in the lust of knowledge I feel only my will's delight in begetting and becoming; and if there be innocence in my knowledge it is because my procreative will is in it.
Innocence has nothing to dread.
A villain who shares one's guilt is inevitably more attractive than a hero convinced of one's innocence.
Assuredly we bring not innocence not the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.
What I call innocence is the spirit's unself-conscious state at any moment of pure devotion to any object. It is at once a receptiveness and total concentration.