Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.

I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there.

Whether we knew many who died on September 11 or personally knew none, we all lost something on that day. Innocence. Security. A trust that our homeland would always be safe.

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

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.

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.

I think that freshness and that innocence is something that is missing from a lot of female singers. I'm certainly not denying that I'm young, but I'm not fluff.

Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.

It doesn't bother me that Seven has such an overtly sexual presence, because she has no concept of what effect that physical package would have on some male member of the crew. That's what's fun, her innocence.

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.