Loss Of Innocence Quotes

• All things truly wicked start from innocence.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspiring, Wicked, Literature

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

  48 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Children, Growing Up, Thinking

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.73, Hachette UK

  90 Copy quote

  Show source

• I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Loss, Vantage Point, Innocence

  "A fan's eye view". Interview with Nick Hornby, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.

  Jodi Picoult

  Loss, Innocence, Trauma

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• Don't we all look back in longing, those of us who had happy childhoods? Because the greatest loss we ever know is not the loss of family or place or money, it is the loss of innocence. There is forever a hollow place in our hearts once we realize that darkness rings the campfire.

  Carolyn Hart

  Heart, Loss, Childhood

  53 Copy quote

• I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.

  Steve Toltz

  Real, Loss, Thinking

  Steve Toltz (2008). “A fraction of the whole”

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• He wanted to care, and he could not care. For he had gone away and he could never go back anymore. The gates were closed, the sun was down, and there was no beauty left but the gray beauty of steel that withstands all time. Even the grief he could have borne was left behind in the country of youth, of illusion, of the richness of life, where his winter dreams had flourished.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dream, Country, Growing Up

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2004). “The Complete Short Stories, Essays, and a Play”, p.530, Simon and Schuster

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• a loss of sensibility follows a loss of innocence, at once a penalty and a compensation.

  Dodie Smith

  Loss, Innocence, Penalties

  8 Copy quote

• To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of innocence, an act of aggression, a repetition of our Fall?

  Emile M. Cioran

  Book, Fall, Writing

  9 Copy quote

• So the city became the material expression of a particular loss of innocence – not sexual or political innocence but somehow a shared dream of what a city might at its best prove to be – its inhabitants became, and have remained, an embittered and amnesiac race, wounded but unable to connect through memory to the moment of injury, unable to summon the face of their violator.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Dream, Memories, Loss

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Against the Day”, p.179, Penguin

  25 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was taught to lie at a young age. . . . I think that [A PARK IN OUR HOUSE] describes what people make out of their reality in a totalitarian system like Castro's. They take flight and move into the imagination in order to transcend their immediate reality. I had to write this play. It helped me understand my own loss of innocence.

  Nilo Cruz

  Lying, Moving, Writing

  4 Copy quote

• I'm not sure if there is a cultural loss of innocence specifically associated with the seventies. The oil crisis? The Watergate scandal? I really don't know. There's nothing there on the scale of Hiroshima.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Loss, Oil, Scandal

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• [Ending] is partly drawn from a desire to shock the audience, to brutally de-romanticize what many Americans think is happening overseas. And partly drawn from my own childhood: violence and a loss of innocence. But keep in mind that, as a writer, I'm both the criminal and the victim. I'm not trying to get out of anything easy.

  Said Sayrafiezadeh

  Loss, Thinking, Childhood

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out.

  Tom Hiddleston

  War, Loss, Generations

  4 Copy quote