Innocence Quotes

Whoever blushes is already guilty. True innocence is ashamed of nothing.[Quiconque rougit est déjà coupable; la vraie innocence n’a honte de rien.]

When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they dont really know what they mean.

Always the innocent are the first victims. So it has been for ages past, so it is now.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

There are always reasons for murdering a man. On the contrary, it is impossible to justify his living. That’s why crime always finds lawyers, and innocence only rarely.[Il y a toujours des raisons au meurtre d’un homme. Il est, au contraire, impossible de justifier qu’il vive. C’est pourquoi le crime trouve toujours des avocats et l’innocence parfois, seulement.]

Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.

The loss of innocence is the most severe of growing pains.

The innocent died along with the guilty. And if you did nothing, then only the innocent died.

It is better to run the risk of sparing the guilty than to condemn an innocent.

Innocence is innocent not because it rejects but because it accepts; is innocent not because it is impervious and invulnerable to everything, but because it is capable of accepting anything and still remaining innocent; innocent because it foreknows all and therefore doesn’t have to fear and be afraid.

I don’t want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.

Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots.