Simone Weil Quotes

To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.

I was so gullible as a kid.

Children are born with pureness, and gradually become distracted with all the little pressures going on.

I think when you are 17 you are very innocent.

I had no plans to share that I was a virgin.

The most innocent heart is generally the most credulous.

If blue is dream what then innocence? What awaits the heart if Love bears no arrows?

Pure at heart: to be like a flower that blooms as gloriously, brilliantly in a secluded wild wood, not seen and praised.

I'm not dangerous at all I never hurt Grandpa or Sue or Billy. I love humans. And wolf-people like my Jacob."Renesmee dropped Edward's hand to reach back and pat Jacob's arm.

To the children and the innocent it's all the same.

Marilyn Monroe was a very sweet girl, she was a very innocent girl.

Innocence is indeed a glorious thing; but, unfortunately, it does not keep very well and is easily led astray.

They [daisies] are my favorite flower. There is something innocent and vulnerable about them as if they thanked you for admiring them.

Bonnie who had never hurt a - a harmless thing for malice. Bonnie who was like a kitten making airy pounces at no prey at all. Bonnie with her hair that was called something strawberry but that looked simply as if it was on fire. Bonnie of the translucent skin with the delicate violet fjords and estuaries of veins all over her throat and inner arms. Bonnie who had lately taken to looking at him sideways with her large childlike eyes big and brown under lashes like stars...

I shall never rest until I have undone the harm I did to so many well-meaning, innocent Negroes who through my own evangelistic zeal now believe in him even more fanatically and more blindly than I did.

Aging is the diminishing of early fearlessness.

Optimist: day-dreamer in his small clothes.

The human baby, the human being, is a mosaic of animal and angel.

Probably I am very naive, but I also think I prefer to remain so, at least for the time being and perhaps for the rest of my life.

Life is bittersweet. Inside our heads, if we're lucky, we're the same kids as we were when we were young.

I really believe in completely being naive and having high hopes when meeting someone new. I can kind of re-do my stupidity or my naivete.

...the little man's total obliviousness to all forms of danger somehow made danger so discouraged that it gave up and went away.

There is so much truth in children and so little self-consciousness. It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing and finding themselves and also losing and finding those things they feel close to.

You're at your most purest, most innocent, pure state when you're doing something you've never done before. You're scared a little, you're a little vulnerable, you're kind of trying, and then you're also better, because you're trying harder than you maybe would try.

The heart of silver falls ever into the hands of brass. The sensitive herb is eaten as grass by the swine.