Quotes of: Innocent Keyword

To an atheist all writings tend to atheism: he corrupts the most innocent matter with his own venom.

The Complete Essays

We consider it innocent to desire, and heinous that the other person should do so.

The Captive & The Fugitive

Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.

Confessions

Innocent droplets of rain Make almost all events Quite natural. (from "A Rainy Day")

The Condemned Apple: Selected Poetry

Was your mom a gardener?' I asked innocently. 'What?' Ren’s mouth hung open slightly. 'Because a face like yours belongs planted on the ground.

Daimon

I saw the last piece of innocence unfurl inside of her. -Nick Plato (from the story Platonick)

Dragons and Cicadas: The Society On Da Run

What a moron I was to think you were sweet and innocent, when it turns out you were actually college-educated the whole time!

The Edible Woman

Innocence is a bleeding wound without a bandage, a wound that opens with every casual knock from casual passers-by. Experience is an armour.

Fludd

Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.

The God Delusion

I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror of their own ordinariness. They would do anything to be unique.

Geek Love

I had forgotten such innocence exists,/forgotten how it feels/ to live with neither calendars nor clocks

Hologram LP: A Book of Glosas

You can never hurt me, And you will never cause me pain Cause you're made of fire, And I'm the heavy rain.

Burning Innocence

Maybe innocence is a skin you must shed to build layers more resistant to the caustic truths of the world.

The Barbarian Nurseries

Is a brazen and innocent confrontation with paternal authority an unbearably terrifying prospect to some? Are the consequences of a father's anger and displeasure so catastrophic in the primal imagination that every semblance of it in the world both ...

Michael Leunig

You lie once.. you lie for the rest of your life... and in quest of proving your innocence.. you pledge your honesty with utter lies.... !!!

Aapka Abhijeet

The innocence of such children doesn't answer our deepest questions about this vale of tears to which we are condemned, but it helps to dispel them. That is the secret to family life.

The Accursed

So close to the powers of evil she must have lived that she still breathed more freely in their air.

The Age of Innocence

To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.

Auguries of Innocence

She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves.

The Age of Innocence

..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.

The Age of Innocence

Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas.

The Age of Innocence