138 quotes found
“Naught but leaves brushed in the wind, stemming from the forest behind my house. Oh, and of course, the wildlife seized every chance to tell the stars who they were; they hooted, howled, and growle...”
“I dont have a philosophy: I have senses...If I talk about Nature, its not because I know what it is,But because I love it, and thats why I love it,Because when you love you never know what you love...”
“I have been wrongly accused; and you, ma'am, and everybody else, will now think me wicked.""We shall think you what you prove yourself to be, my child. Continue to act as a good girl, and you will ...”
“Saints preserve us,' Dr. Kellen said, and squeezed Galen's shoulder. 'What have we done to our youth?”
“If someone had told Allie that she would commit a premeditated act of murder, she would not have believed it. She would have spouted off all the reasons how she could never be capable of such a thi...”
“To preserve your innocence while acquiring intelligence, that is a true mark of wisdom.”
“you boys can keep your virgins give me hot old women in high heels with asses that forgot to get old.”
“We violate the innocence of things in the name of rationality so we can wander about, uninterrupted, in our search for passion and sentiment.”
“An innocent mind is a rarity. Society corrupts us all, even if only a little.”
“Maybe I dont really want to know whats going on. Maybe Id rather not know. Maybe I couldnt bear to know.The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.”
“The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.”
“Nienor ran on into the woods until she was spent, and then fell, and slept, and awoke; and it was a sunlit morning, and she rejoiced in light as it were a new thing, and all things else that she sa...”
“A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.”
“Sometimes, I miss so much the person that I was before the world tore me up in so many places. If only "they" could have just let me stay that way.”
“An echo from the past when, innocentWe looked upon the present with delightAnd doubted not the future would be kinderAnd never knew the loneliness of night.”
“If you feel alone, and if your heart is pure and your eyes still shine with the wonder of a child's, perhaps as you read these pages you'll find that the stars are smiling on you once more, that yo...”
“For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.”
“I had the same sensation as when we watch someone sleep. When asleep we all become children again. Perhaps because in the state of slumber we can do no wrong and are unconscious of life, the greate...”
“A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.”
“Young people sometimes use their innocence as an excuse to be unwise.”
