Innocence Loss Quotes

Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.

To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry.

It was hard saying goodbye to that oblivion they call childhood.

I think it's so completely bizarre and arrogant for anyone to ever think that they could lose their innocence, because that implies that they have some sense, some idea of what's going on, and no one has any idea what's going on.

'Good Times' is a story about the loss of innocence, how adults are responsible for their actions but children aren't.

It is impossible to reign innocently.

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

I think we look back at times past with fondness because we were younger. Life had not yet begun pecking away at our innocence like buzzards on fresh road kill.

Every time a child says I don't believe in fairies there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

Only the good die young.

When I was a kid growing up in New York, I was pretty unaware of racism. I think when we're young - before we lose our innocence - we're sort of unaware of the more flawed qualities of each other.

The thing I deplore the most is, anyone who rapes anyone's innocence, in anyway. So a guy who physically rapes a woman or a child or physically hits a child. When that period of innocence is raped - that person loses something that they can never get it back. To me when innocence is raped, that is the sickest and filthiest thing.

There are no filmy parties for my daughter. I'm a bit old-fashioned in such cases because I don't want my child to lose her innocence at such an early age.

Reading is the scourge of childhood because, in a sense, it creates adulthood.

..children know such a lot now, they soon don't believe in fairies, and every time a child says, 'I don't believe in fairies,' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

Killing a stag is like killing a child.

I belong to a tradition that believes that the death of a single child is a blemish on creation.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

You start like a white blanket and you have to preserve that, and each year that you live chips away at your essential value.

Social media is great, I guess, but it feels like technology is the sapper of innocence.

I never played with anything like toys. I wanted to be grown-up.

I think you lose your innocence when you have kids, because the world suddenly becomes a much more dangerous place.

It's one of those unforgettable moments that happen as a child, when you discover that all along the world has been betraying you.

I've always been fascinated with the stealing of innocence. It's the most heinous crime, and certainly a capital crime if there ever was one.