"Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!"

Innocence, Humility, Faith, Childhood, Mystery

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"Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!"

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"Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer."

Jack Henry Abbott, American Author

Innocence, Deep

"Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled."

Immanuel Kant, German Philosopher

Innocence, Naivety, Loss, Deception

"There is no aphrodisiac like innocence."

Jean Baudrillard, French Sociologist

Innocence,

"Now it seemed unbelievable, the innocence of a girl in a fairy tale."

Janet Fitch, American Author

Innocence, Memory, Emotion, Reality

"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."

Jessica Simpson, American Musician

Innocence,

"In the true man there is a child concealed - who wants to play."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Innocence, Man, Play, Truth

"Daddy, What's the horizontal tango?"

Simone Elkeles, American Author

Innocence, Children, Humor, Curiosity

"And the child smiled on the Giant, and said to him, 'You let me play once in your garden, to-day you shall come with me to my garden, which is Paradise."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Innocence, Paradise, Smile

"The happiest adults are those who never buried old toys or abandoned imaginary friends."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Innocence, Happiness, Truth, Today, Inspirational

"Ah, no, he did not want May to have that kind of innocence, the innocence that seals the mind against imagination and the heart against experience..."

Edith Wharton, American Author

Innocence, Experience, Imagination, Observation

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"You said, 'They're harmless dreamers and they're loved by the people.' 'What,' I asked you, 'is harmless about a dreamer, and what,' I asked you, 'is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams."

Revolution

"You have a spark of anarchy in your spirit and that's not to be tolerated. Nothing wild or honest is tolerated her! It has to be extinguished..."

Freedom

"When things don't change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them."

Conformity

"Laws of silence don't work....When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting that the house is burning. But not facing a fire doesn't put it out. Silence about a thing just magnifies it. It grows and festers in silence, becomes malignant...."

Silence

"Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama."

Symbolism

"Princess, the great difference between people in this world is not between the rich and the poor or the good and the evil, the biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have the pleasure in love and those that haven't and hadn't any pleasure in love, but just watched it with envy, sick envy. The spectators and the performers."

Relationship

"Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - gently, with love, and hand your life back to you."

Life

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"Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer."

"Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled."

"There is no aphrodisiac like innocence."

"Now it seemed unbelievable, the innocence of a girl in a fairy tale."

"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."

"In the true man there is a child concealed - who wants to play."

"Daddy, What's the horizontal tango?"

"And the child smiled on the Giant, and said to him, 'You let me play once in your garden, to-day you shall come with me to my garden, which is Paradise."

"The happiest adults are those who never buried old toys or abandoned imaginary friends."

"Ah, no, he did not want May to have that kind of innocence, the innocence that seals the mind against imagination and the heart against experience..."

Explore more quotes by Tennessee Williams

"You said, 'They're harmless dreamers and they're loved by the people.' 'What,' I asked you, 'is harmless about a dreamer, and what,' I asked you, 'is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams."

"You have a spark of anarchy in your spirit and that's not to be tolerated. Nothing wild or honest is tolerated her! It has to be extinguished..."

"When things don't change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them."

"Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama."

"Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - gently, with love, and hand your life back to you."

"We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life."

"There's a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go."

"In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons."