125 Innocent Love Quotes to Help You Rediscover Pure Affection

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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence. - Jean Baudrillard

There is no aphrodisiac like innocence. — Jean Baudrillard

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. — Graham Greene

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. — Graham Greene

The innocent is the person who explains nothing. — Albert Camus

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart. — Honore de Balzac

Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion. — Oscar Wilde

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. — George Bernard Shaw

There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced. — Immanuel Kant

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure. — Honore de Balzac

I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship. — Helene Cixous

All things truly wicked start from an innocence. - Ernest Hemingway

All things truly wicked start from an innocence. — Ernest Hemingway

Pure love is an incomparable, potent power for good. Righteous love is the foundation of a successful marriage. — Richard G. Scott

Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy. — Giacomo Casanova

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing is impossible for pure love. — Mahatma Gandhi

Short Innocent Love Quotes

  • Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love. — Pope John Paul II
  • True love begins when nothing is looked for in return. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise. — Alain Badiou
  • Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart. — Alphonse De Lamartine
  • Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto. — Lope de Vega

Innocent Love Image Quotes

Innocent love quote Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it truth. Feed it with love
Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it truth. Feed it with love.

Sweet And Innocent Quotes

People do see me as sweet and innocent. Not to say that I am not those things. But I have other sides to me. — Janet Jackson

There's a fine line between being sweet and innocent and being a tough broad. — Phyllis George

My brother is undoubtedly arrogant," Tyrion Lannister replied. "My father is the soul of avarice, and my sweet sister Cersei lusts for power with every waking breath. I, however, am innocent as a little lamb. Shall I bleat for you? — George R. R. Martin

Innocent love quote The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measur
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.

We all have monsters inside of us, and we all have an inner child in us. You always think about your inner child as being the sweet and innocent part of yourself, but it's also the part that's all ego with the mentality of, "If the world isn't pleasing me, it isn't doing its job." — Finn Wittrock

I can't remember coming across a more precise evocation of innocence lost since Golding's The Lord of the Flies. With The Death of Sweet Mister, Daniel Woodrell has written his masterpiece-spare, dark, and incandescently beautiful. It broke my heart. — Dennis Lehane

Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them in order that the reader may see what they are made of. — Kurt Vonnegut

Innocent love quote Everyone comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack.
Everyone comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack.

I remembered my little brother, Allyn, had appeared so innocent and angelic when he slept--similar to Kerrick. It must be a survival tactic. If Allyn hadn't looked so sweet, we would have killed him while he slept. He had been pure evil when he was awake--similar to Kerrick. — Maria V. Snyder

All the songs that were written for that album are just all our first sophomore songs. So they're all from real life. Very sweet and very innocent. — Ann Wilson

Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cash-boxes for hearts. — Honore de Balzac

They're spreading out. Look unaware and sweet and innocent. It's a little hard to look innocent when I'm as big as a house. — Christine Feehan

Innocence Quotes

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses. — Malcom X

I die innocent of all the crimes laid to my charge; I pardon those who have occasioned my death; and I pray to God that the blood you are going to shed may never be visited on France. — Louis XVI of France

Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future. — Maria Montessori

Innocent love quote How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off your relish of spiritual things; in short, whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind; that thing is sin to you, however innocent it may be in itself. — Susanna Wesley

When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to Heaven. There are others: innocence, but that is for little children; penance, but we are afraid of it; generous endurance of trials of life, but when they come we weep and ask to be. The surest, easiest, shortest way is the Eucharist. — Pope Pius X

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool. - Stephen King

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool. — Stephen King

If I sit next to a madman as he drives a car into a group of innocent bystanders, I can't, as a Christian, simply wait for the catastrophe, then comfort the wounded and bury the dead. I must try to wrestle the steering wheel out of the hands of the driver. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There are no innocent civilians, so it doesn't bother me so much to be killing innocent bystanders. — Curtis LeMay

To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower. - William Blake

To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower. — William Blake

Innocent Eyes Quotes

I close my eyes And sink within myself Relive the gift of precious memories In need of a fix called innocence When did it begin?The change to come was undetectable The open wounds expose the importance of Our innocence A high that can never be bought or sold — Chuck Schuldiner

Artists who are able to continually create great works throughout their lives often manage to preserve these childlike qualities. Practicing a way of being that allows you to see the world through uncorrupted, innocent eyes can free you to act in concert with the universe’s timetable. — Rick Rubin

One by one, drops fell from her eyes like they were on an assembly line - gather, fall, slide...gather, fall, slide...each one commemorating something she had lost. Hope. Faith. Confidence. Pride. Security. Trust. Independence. Joy. Beauty. Freedom. Innocence. — Lisi Harrison

Innocent love quote If I cut you off chances are you handed me the scissors.
If I cut you off chances are you handed me the scissors.

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction. — James A. Baldwin

...innocence of eye has a quality of its own. It means to see as a child sees, with freshness and acknowledgment of the wonder; it also means to see as an adult sees who has gone full circle and once again sees as a child - with freshness and an even deeper sense of wonder. — Minor White

Children are always looking at the world as if it was for the first time in their lives. So, we should always look to the world with the eyes of a child. I am not saying be naive, I am saying be innocent in the sense of discovering things. — Paulo Coelho

Innocent love quote To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.
To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.

The alcoholic trance is not just a haze, as though the eyes were also unshaven. It is not a mere buzzing in the ears, a dizzinessor disturbance of balance. One arrives in the garden again, at nursery time, when the gentle animals are fed and in all the world there are only toys. — William H. Gass

Where innocent bright-eyes daisies are With blades of grass between, Each daisy stands up like a star Out of a sky of green. — Christina Rossetti

When faith is kneeling by his bed of death, And innocence is closing up his eyes, Now if thou would'st, when all have given him over, From death to life, thou might'st him yet recover — Michael Drayton

Your face, my thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters. To beguile the time, Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under't. — William Shakespeare

Innocent Life Quotes

I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another. — Erich Maria Remarque

We come this way but once. We can either tiptoe through life and hope we get to death without being badly bruised or we can live a full, complete life achieving our goals and realizing our wildest dreams. — Bob Proctor

A 1990 Gallup poll found that 77 percent of Americans polled said abortion was the taking of human life. I agree, and believe that taking the life on an innocent child is unjust. — Robert Casey

Innocent love quote Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself. — Henry David Thoreau

And if we can accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? — Mother Teresa

Dining with one's friends and beloved family is certainly one of life's primal and most innocent delights, one that is both soul-satisfying and eternal. — Julia Child

Innocent love quote I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love and a little drunk.
I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love and a little drunk.

Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by fairly good judgment. — Hilaire Belloc

Human life has dignity at every age the taking of innocent human life is always wrong. I believe our nation at every level of government must reject any scheme to permit or promote assisted suicide and euthanasia. — Gary Bauer

The artist has to look at life as he did when he was a child. If he loses that faculty, he cannot express himself in an original, that is, a personal way. — Henri Matisse

Self-denial is taught much better by inspiring the love of our neighbor, than by the prohibition of innocent comforts and pleasures. Spirituality is much better taught by making spiritual things the objects of supreme desire, than by commanding an ostentatious avoidance of the enjoyments of life. — Harriet Martineau

Innocent Quotes

Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused. — Alan Cohen

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. — Albert Camus

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Innocent love quote The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

We cannot change what happened anymore. The only thing we can do is to learn from the past and to realize what discrimination and persecution of innocent people means. I believe that it's everyone's responsibility to fight prejudice. — Otto Frank

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

As in any war, there have been dreadful mistakes and civilian casualties. The difference is when Israelis kill innocents they apologize; when Hezbollah kills innocents they celebrate. — J. D. Hayworth

Innocent love quote Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

Propaganda machines are hard at work stoking the fires of outrage and division, while more and more innocent people suffer. — Lex Fridman

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. - Howard Zinn

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. — Howard Zinn

Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin. — Eason Jordan

Old men are twice children — Greek Proverbs

Innocent Girl Quotes

A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot. — Alan Beck

I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was really innocent. — Mark Ruffalo

A better world begins with our children. Our boys and, crucially, our girls. — Ursula von der Leyen

Innocent love quote A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life
A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life throws at them.

I just don't think it is right, killing innocent girls. — Andre the Giant

The dream of all men is to meet little sluts who are innocent but ready for all forms of depravity—which is what, more or less, all teenage girls are. — Michel Houellebecq

Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means. — D. H. Lawrence

Marilyn Monroe was a very sweet girl, she was a very innocent girl. — Debbie Reynolds

In New York we have streets exploding and innocent Buddhist girls being stabbed in the neck and cabdrivers refusing to help her. If we happen into a nightclub by mistake, when we leave the doorman will be lying in the street surrounded by police. — Cynthia Heimel

I once loved a girl, her skin it was bronze With the innocence of a lamb, she was gentle like a fawn I courted her proudly but now she is gone Gone as the season she's taken — Bob Dylan

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

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More Innocent Love Quotes

Oh, innocent victims of Cupid, remember this terse little verse: To let a fool kiss you is stupid. To let a kiss fool you is worse. — Yip Harburg

If cows, pigs, chickens and turkeys go into slaughterhouses alive and come out chopped up into hundreds of pieces, how could anyone claim that animals aren't being mistreated, abused, tortured, terrorized and savagely murdered in these places? How in the world could SLAUGHTERING BILLIONS of INNOCENTS be done with love, humanity and concern? — Gary Yourofsky

No masters or kings when the ritual begins [making love] There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin In the madness and soil of that sad earthly scene Only then I am human Only then I am clean — Hozier

The most conspicuous thing about suffering is, as W.H. Auden once observed, its banality. The day is green, the sun is shinging, someone is eating, or opening a window, the torturer's horse is scatching its innocent behind on a tree, and in a mere second someone we love is dead. — Michael Jackson

Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee. — Margaret Courtney

Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee. — Margaret Ann Courtney

The world is crazily in love with you, wildly and innocently in love. Even now, thousands of secret helpers are conspiring to turn you into the beautiful curiosity you were born to be. — Rob Brezsny

Freemasonry is a moral order, instituted by virtuous men, with the praiseworthy design of recalling to our remembrance the most sublime truths, in the midst of the most innocent and social pleasures, founded on liberality, brotherly love and charity. — Andrew Jackson

I believe this. When we meet those we fall in love with, there is an aspect of our spirit that is historian, a bit of a pedant who reminisces or remembers a meeting when the other has passed by innocently…but all parts of the body must be ready for the other, all atoms must jump in one direction for desire to occur. — Michael Ondaatje

Children are born innocent. Before they are domesticated they live in the moment, love without fear, and don't even think about the opinions of others. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

See the world with the innocence of children. Approach the world with the daring of children. Love the world with the readiness of children. Heal the world with the purity of children. Change the world with the wisdom of children. — Neale Donald Walsch

I love the whirling of the dervishes. I love the beauty of rare innocence. You don't need no crystal ball, Don't fall for a magic wand. We humans got it all, we perform the miracles. — Kate Bush

Love is a crocodile just above the water line waiting to attack the innocent herbivore of my freedom. — Dov Davidoff

Here's what I say: We will ignore the cult of doom and gloom and embrace the cause of zoom and boom. We will laugh at the stupidity of evil and hate, and summon the brilliance of praise and create. . . Life is crazily in love with us-wildly and innocently in love with us. The universe always gives us exactly what we need, exactly when we need it. — Rob Brezsny

A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever. The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God, and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not. — Henry David Thoreau

Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage. Minds innocent and quiet take that for a hermitage: If I have freedom in my love, and in my Soul I am free, Angels alone, that soar above, enjoy such liberty. — Richard Lovelace

Death did not first strike Adam, the first sinful man, nor Cain, the first hypocrite, but Abel, the innocent and righteous. The first soul that met with death, overcame death; the first soul that parted from earth went to heaven. Death argues not displeasure, because he whom God loved best dies first, and the murderer is punished with living. — Joseph Hall

I paint; I'm a woman but I don't paint china. The first time I got a canvas I felt free. Art is overreaction to life. I love these early drawings; they show my innocent beginnings in a small town. Life is a sentence -- you live it out. Maybe these portraits jump out at you too much. People like things that conform. — Alice Neel

The opportunity to love a dog and to treat it with kindness is an opportunity for a lost and selfish heart to be redeemed. They are powerless and innocent, and it is how we treat the humblest among us that surely determines the fate of our souls — Dean Koontz

It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn't end until about 1976. We all believed in Make Love, Not War. We were idealistic innocents, despite the drugs and sex. — Margot Kidder

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. — Malcolm Turnbull

Love means to be willing to give until it hurts. — Mother Teresa

Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion. — Florida Scott-Maxwell

To be godless is probably the first step to innocence," he said, "to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost." So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions." An absence of need for illusions," he said. "A love of and respect for what is right before your eyes. — Anne Rice

Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which of you does not sometimes look back regretfully on the age when laughter was ever on the lips and the heart free of care? Why steal from the little innocents the enjoyment of a time that passes all too quickly? — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with LOVE, and we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts. — Mother Teresa

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way. — Michael Jackson

Among the masked dandies of Edwardian comedy, Max Beerbohm is the most happily armored by a deep and almost innocent love of himself as a work of art. — V. S. Pritchett

The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would last through life; he said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being. — Victor Hugo

I have been all men known to history, Wondering at the world and at time passing; I have seen evil, and the light blessing Innocent love under a spring sky. — R. S. Thomas

I deplore the horrible crime as child murder....no matter what the motive, love of ease, or desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent,the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed...but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which compelled her to the crime. — Susan B. Anthony

The Seasons Difference is a suave and urbane comedy about several immense abstractions - faith, innocence, loneliness, and love. — Orville Prescott

The world ridicules a passion which it seldom feels; its scenes, and its interests, distract the mind, deprave the taste, corrupt the heart, and love cannot exist in a heart that has lost the meek dignity of innocence. — Ann Radcliffe

Language, journalism, food, sex. All is politics. Even innocent love stories are politics. ... There is no such thing as neutrality. — Nawal El Saadawi

Return to the purity of your innocence where you are enchanted with life. Give love for no reason. Surround yourself with others doing the same. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Halloween wraps fear in innocence, as though it were a lightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat. — Nick Gordon

In the unspoilt state of innocent childhood, practically every human being has a natural and direct feeling for the existence of God Almighty. But as time passes, this faith may be deflected and people start believing in other powers - political, economic or social. — Nirmala Srivastava

Each killing steals a bit of humanity until a murderer is nothing more than an animal. A hunger replaces the spirit. A want for what was lost, but as with innocence, the soul can never be replaced. Joy, love, and peace flee such a vessel and in their stead blooms a desire for blood and death. — Michael J. Sullivan

I would love to be fooled. The innocence of child for the first time, seeing something and being in wonder is something that I long for because I'm tainted. — Criss Angel

If you are ready to be intimate, you will encourage the other person also to be intimate. Your unpretentious simplicity will allow the other also to enjoy simplicity, innocence, trust, love, openness. — Osho

In Conclusion

Why do you need to read innocent love quotes, you ask? These quotes are not just words, but lessons in love, promoting values of compassion, trust, and selflessness. They encourage us to love unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. They remind us of a time when love was not a transaction, but a gift freely given and received. The benefit of these innocent love quotes is the gentle reminder they offer - a reminder of our capacity to love purely and selflessly. In a world that often forgets the simple joy of giving, these quotes inspire us to love like a child again - innocent and unguarded. So, let's embrace these innocent love quotes, let them inspire us, and let them guide us back to the path of innocent and pure love.

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