138 quotes found
“...I'm a fool. I expect too much, then I'm angry because nothing ever works out the way I want. When I was young and full of hopes and aspirations, I didn't know I would get hurt so often. I think ...”
“We'll never feel safe again, and so it's bye-bye innocence. It's been nice knowing you, but you're gone now.”
“(...) there are these fading, ageing girls who constantly let themselves go over the edge without resisting, strong girls, still unused in their innermost selves, who have never been loved. Perhaps...”
“The true definition of innocence is unfiltered perception.”
“Innocence is the ability to see things for what they are.”
“I wanted to tell her to never change, to never let her heart get trampled down and hard. But shed remember that, too. And right now she didnt know that there was any other way to be. That her heart...”
“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.”
“Innocence expresses itself to a man so blind!”
“In innocence everything has its truest meaning.”
“A boy is in the parlour what the pit is in the playhouse; independent, irresponsible, looking out from his corner on such people and facts as pass by, he tries and sentences them on their merits, i...”
“...[I]t is pain to think of innocence in ruin.”
“The really pure in heart know nothing of what goes on around them each day, each night; never realize what poisonous weeds spring up beneath their childish feet.”
“You know-- one loves the sunset, when one is so sad...""Were you so sad, then?" I asked, "on the day of the forty-four sunsets?"But the little prince made no reply.”
“Your window square a yellow kite, and the Moon a white balloon”
“In the middle of a wrist's suicide slash-line, below the layered skin and above the pulse, there's an acupuncture point that says, Get back to who you were meant to be. This is the heart spot, the ...”
“She was fragile, gentle, wide awake in a sleeping world.”
“Things that are truly innocent dont need to be labelled as such.”
“Innocence must die young if it isn't to kill the souls of men”
“Maybe innocence is a skin you must shed to build layers more resistant to the caustic truths of the world.”
“The innocent must not suffer.”
