O Rose, thou art sick.
The invisible worm
That flies in the night
In the howling storm
Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy,
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.
Tags: innocence virtue corruption destruction sickness seduction rose worm innocence-lost
In the 1950s kids lost their innocence.
They were liberated from their parents by well-paying jobs, cars, and lyrics in music that gave rise to a new term ---the generation gap.
In the 1960s, kids lost their authority.
It was a decade of protest---church, state, and parents were all called into question and found wanting. Their authority was rejected, yet nothing ever replaced it.
In the 1970s, kids lost their love. It was the decade of me-ism dominated by hyphenated words beginning with self.
Self-image, Self-esteem, Self-assertion....It made for a lonely world. Kids learned everything there was to know about sex and forgot everything there was to know about love, and no one had the nerve to tell them there was a difference.
In the 1980s, kids lost their hope.
Stripped of innocence, authority and love and plagued by the horror of a nuclear nightmare, large and growing numbers of this generation stopped believing in the future.
In the 1990s kids lost their power to reason. Less and less were they taught the very basics of language, truth, and logic and they grew up with the irrationality of a postmodern world.
In the new millennium, kids woke up and found out that somewhere in the midst of all this change, they had lost their imagination. Violence and perversion entertained them till none could talk of killing innocents since none was innocent anymore.
Tags: generations innocence-lost societal-degredation
You know what I miss the most about my youth? My gullibility. It's nice believing in everything and everyone. It makes you feel secure, but be strong and depend more on yourself and you'll be ready for disappointments. That's the best advice I can offer you.
V.C. AndrewsTags: youth innocence-lost
There is no place for innocence on the battlefield.
Jocelyn MurrayTags: innocence war loss innocence-lost battlefield
Who is that blond child laughing as he runs after his colored marbles? [my marbles]
It's me
And who is the poet writing this poem?
That blond child who laughed as he ran after his colored marbles
Tags: innocence childhood child poet marbles innocence-lost
The price of this story was the audience's innocence.
Tom Rob SmithTags: innocence-lost
Innocence could be lost more than once after all.
Selena KittTags: innocence morality lost ethics morals evil loss sin purity guilt corruption moralism innocent pure purity-myth defile innocence-lost pureness
Why we as a nation worship youth so much is because we confuse it with innocence. We long for the irresponsibility of not knowing. I would not myself be young again for anything you could offer me. But I long, I must admit it, for innocence. To be ignorant of the pain of the world ... not to be haunted by knowledge of the pain, the suffering, the injustice and horror that's going on all the time everywhere ... If I could have unawareness back again ... that would be happiness.
Gerda CharlesTags: innocence-lost
I wanted to shout down to him, to warn him that he was giving flowers to a monster, but I did not.
Neil GaimanTags: children youth flowers cowardice wanting monster innocence-lost
The world was alive, the sky descending; our times were lullabies and sad goodbyes.
Nicholaus PatnaudeTags: pain sadness death gothic sublime innocence-lost
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