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Innocence Quotes by Famous Authors

1. “When I was a boy, I laid in my twin-sized bed and wondered where my brother was.”

Mitch Hedberg

2. “A flow’ret crushed in the bud, A nameless piece of Babyhood, Was in her cradle-coffin lying; Extinct, with scarce the sense of dying.”

Charles Lamb

3. “While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.”

Charles Lamb

4. “I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them.”

Charles Lamb

5. “Credulity is the man’s weakness, but the child’s strength.”

Charles Lamb

6. “Is the world all grown up? Is childhood dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest and the best some of the child’s heart left, to respond to its earliest enchantments?”

Charles Lamb

7. “As kids we didn't know many fears, we smiled at strangers, we played with anyone new, we smiled more often, we didn't worry about the future, didn't remember much about the past, we hugged, kissed, cuddled, didn't fear judgement. And then we became "adults"! What a decline!”

Ankur Warikoo

8. “As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother’s house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.”

V.S. Naipaul

9. “Great men have the nature of a child.”

Ramakrishna

10. “Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.”

Leonard Cohen

11. “When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat; when we see children in a moment when they are really children.”

Thomas Merton

12. “There are people whom even children’s literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom of Solomon.”

Anton Chekhov

13. “Dear sweet unforgettable childhood.”

Anton Chekhov

14. “The forest fire burns even trees like sandalwood.”

Chanakya

15. “Children are the most wholesome part of the race, the sweetest, for they are the freshest from the hand of God.”

Herbert Hoover

16. “Children add to the wonder of being alive.”

Herbert Hoover

17. “The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.”

Herbert Hoover

18. “Smiling face of every little girl is the signature of God’s presence.”

Amit Ray

19. “Killing innocent people in the name of God is the highest insult to God.”

Amit Ray

20. “Look well that you unto no vice assent, lest you be damned for your evil intent. For she who does so is a traitor, certainly. And take heed of what I shall say: of all the treasons, the greatest wickedness is the betrayal of innocence.”

Geoffrey Chaucer

21. “The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.”

Henry Ward Beecher

22. “Like a bird she seems to wear gay plumage unconsciously, as if it grew upon her.”

Henry Ward Beecher

23. “Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.”

Henry Ward Beecher

24. “There is in youth a purity of character which, when once touched and defiled, can never be restored; a fringe more delicate than frost-work, and which, when torn and broken, can never be re-embroidered.”

Henry Ward Beecher

25. “Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. By these tendrils we clasp it and climb thitherward. And why do we think that we are separated from them? We never half knew them, nor in this world could.”

Henry Ward Beecher

26. “Children never seek happiness: they are happy.”

Sadhguru

27. “Innocence is not accustomed to blush.”

Moliere

28. “Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.”

Henrik Ibsen

29. “Happy season of childhood! Kind Nature, that art to all a bountiful mother; that visitest the poor man’s hut With auroral radiance; and for thy nursling hast provided a soft swathing of love and infinite hope wherein he waxes and slumbers, danced round by sweetest dreams!”

Thomas Carlyle

30. “The little boy smiled back at all the angry faces glaring in at him. And the little boy blew kisses.”

Chuck Palahniuk

31. “Isn’t growing up a necessary process of losing one’s innocence? Maybe, maybe not. But the trouble with life is, you rarely know when that loss is going to happen, do you? And how it will be, afterwards.”

Julian Barnes

32. “Be a child again. Flirt. Giggle. Dip your cookies in your milk. Take a nap. Say you’re sorry if you hurt someone. Chase a butterfly. Be a child again.”

Max Lucado

33. “The girl of the period sets up to be natural, and is only rude; mistakes insolence for innocence; says everything that comes first to her lips, and thinks she is gay when she is only giddy.”

Benjamin Disraeli

34. “Man by the fall fell at the same time from his state of innocence and from his dominion over nature. Both of these losses, however, can even in this life be in some part repaired; the former by religion and faith, the latter by the arts and sciences.”

Francis Bacon

35. “Time is a game played beautifully by children.”

Heraclitus

36. “To become a happy person have a clean soul, eyes that see romance in the commonplace, a child’s heart, and spiritual simplicity.”

Norman Vincent Peale

37. “When cruelty is inflicted on innocent people, it discredits whatever cause.”

Ronald Reagan

38. “We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.”

Ronald Reagan

39. “Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?”

Epictetus

40. “Become more and more innocent, less knowledgeable and more childlike. Take life as fun – because that’s precisely what it is!”

Osho Rajneesh

41. “Meditation makes you innocent, it makes you childlike. In that state, miracles are possible. That state is pure magic.”

Osho Rajneesh

42. “The innocence of children is their wisdom, the simplicity of children is their egolessness. The freshness of the child is the freshness of your consciousness, which never becomes old, which always remains young.”

Osho Rajneesh

43. “Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.”

Yoko Ono

44. “Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence.”

Yoko Ono

45. “A direct killing of the innocent child, ‘Murder’ by the mother herself.”

Mother Teresa

46. “The child is the beauty of God present in the world, that greatest gift to a family.”

Mother Teresa

47. “Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.”

Leo Tolstoy

48. “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.”

William Faulkner