Quotes about Innocence
They killed him because he was too innocent to live. He was young and ignorant and silly and he got involved. He had no more of a notion than any of you what the whole affair's about . . .
- Graham Greene
It is astonishing the sense of innocence that goes with sin--only the hard and careful man and the saint are free of it.
- Graham Greene
What's the good? he'll always be innocent, you can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
- Graham Greene
Innocence must die young if it isn't to kill the souls of men
- Graham Greene
There is not so much virginity in the world that one can afford not to love it when on finds it.
- Graham Greene
myself. Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
- Graham Greene
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless.
- Graham Greene
Find me an uncomplicated child, Pyle. When we are young we are a jungle of complications. We simplify as we get older.
- Graham Greene
The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.
- John Updike
In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in.
- Robert Brault
The hardest thing about reality is returning to it after an hour inside your child's mind.
- Robert Brault
Always carry with you a little reasonable doubt, should you meet someone who needs to be found innocent.
- Robert Brault