“This is the pain-pleasure of having newly adult children; they're innocent and ruthless in forgetting their sweet old dependence.” ChildrenPainForgetPleasureSweetAdultsInnocentDependenceRuthlessAdult ChildrenPain Pleasure Author:Ian Mcewan
“Perhaps a reign of powerful women is necessary to make, or unmake when need be, powerful men. Women would not waste so readily and uselessly the lives they had such care and pain in bearing. Why should they submit to the massacre of the innocent, one generation after another ... and allow them to be brought up as live-stock for the inevitable killing?” MenNeedsShouldCarePainPowerfulGenerationsWasteKillingInnocentInevitableSubmitReignMen WomenPowerful WomenMassacresPowerful Man Author:Natalie Clifford Barney
“When one is innocent of pain, of the havoc it can wreak, one is never cruel. Cruelty is born of pain, of a need to hurt in turn.” NeedsPainTurnsBornHurtInnocentCrueltyHavoc Book:Crescendo Source: Crescendo
“The word 'innocence' means 'incapable of being hurt'. To have a mind that is not capable of being hurt, does not mean that it has built up a lot of resistance - on the contrary, such a mind is dying to everything that it has known in which there has been conflict, pleasure and pain. Only then is the mind innocent; that means it can love. You cannot love with memory, love is not a matter of remembrance, of time.” MindMeanDoeHas BeensMatterPainHurtMemoriesLove IsPleasureKnownDyingLove YouConflictCapableBuiltContraryResistanceInnocentInnocenceIncapableRemembrancePain And PleasureBeing Hurt Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti