#innocence

and yet a child’s utter innocence is but its blank ignorance, and the innocence more or less wanes as intelligence waxes. ↗

— Herman Melville

#herman-melville #innocence #intelligence #sailor #intelligence

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 greatest criminal and most self- absorbed egotist are holy, by a natural magic, as long as they're sleeping. For me there's no discernible difference between killing a child and killing a sleeping man. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#sleep #life

I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path. ↗

— André Gide

#love #naivety #love

...I'm innocent still -inside me are stained glass windows that have never been broken- and when I see your light it stains my soul with color ... ↗

— John Geddes

#innocence #light #love #poetry #soul

Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand. ↗

— W.B. Yeats

#fairies #fantasy #loss-of-innocence #poetry #sorrow

If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#innocence #world

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one. ↗

— Voltaire

#guilt #innocence #judgment #justice #mercy

They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children weep. Good night. ↗

— Harper Lee

#innocence

Not true,” said Adrian. “All guys mean the same thing when they want to ‘get to know a girl better.’ You’re a wellbred young lady, so I understand why you’d be too innocent to understand. Good thing you’ve got me here to interpret. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#innocence

Innocence is a kind of insanity ↗

— Graham Greene

#innocent #insanity #innocence