Quotes About Forbidden Things

#1. I need you like - like light. You're light, all right - like a flame to a moth. I told you once that you shouldn't mess with forbidden things - I should have taken my own advice.

L.J.Smith

#2. We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

Francois Rabelais

#3. I was always fascinated by forbidden things people didn't want to talk about, like death.

Anthony Jeselnik

#4. The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.

Amy Tan

#5. I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things.

Edgar Allan Poe

#6. Brutal abnormalities - Hellish, grotesque monstrosities Who made us fall, one and all. They beat us black and blue - And too Their Fathers showed us things, Inhuman things - Forbidden things!

Daniel Torridon

#7. Sam Allberry says it best: "Desires for things God has forbidden are a reflection of how sin has distorted me, not how God has made me."22

Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

#8. I close my eyes and dream, because wishes are out of my reach. They require hope. Dreams do not; they are fueled by the unreal, the forbidden, the things that will not ever exist in this world.

Sarah Fine

#9. I think things that i shouldn't.I dream things that i shouldn't.I want things that i shouldn't and it's all because of one thing
I do care about you.

H.M. Ward

#10. I notice you didn't laugh, Mr. Black!
No, Your Majesty. We are forbidden to laugh at the things kings say, sire, because otherwise we would be at it all day.

Terry Pratchett

#11. In the deepest hour of the night I confess to myself three things; I would die if I was forbidden to write, forbidden to love, or forbidden to fashion ... love each other, and celebrate the art and lifestyle of music.

Lady Gaga

#12. Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.

Oscar Wilde

#13. We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.

Ovid

#14. Because all books are forbidden when a country turns to terror. The scaffolds on the corners, the list of things you may not read. These things always go together.

Philippa Gregory

#15. I could give all to Time except
except
What I myself have held. But why declare
The things forbidden that while the Customs slept
I have crossed to Safety with? For I am There,
And what I would not part with I have kept.

Robert Frost

#16. Some are wandering into forbidden paths because they are seeking popularity with their peers, even to the extent of doing things they know are wrong. They cannot stand criticism or ridicule and will not take a firm stand against wrongdoing.

Nathan Eldon Tanner

#17. Sometimes we face "gray areas," things that aren't necessarily forbidden by the Bible but still may not belong in our lives.

Billy Graham

#18. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#19. An intoxication with forbidden knowledge in which the natural things become unimportant.

Anne Rice

#20. Reading in bed is a self-centered act, immobile, free from ordinary social conventions, invisible to the world, and one that, because it takes place between the sheets, in the realm of lust and sinful idleness, has something of the thrill of things forbidden.

Alberto Manguel

#21. Things forbidden have a secret charm.

Tacitus

#22. Carefully studying the delicate form of the doll, she was thinking how easy it was to wish for things as a child. Then nothing seemed impossible. Growing up, one realizes how many things one cannot wish for, the things that are forbidden, sinful. Indecent.

Laura Esquivel

#23. You are forbidden-- forbidden, Charlie Middle-- to do anything but accept the things that are given to you as if you deserve them all.

Chris Cole

#24. No, no, no, no, no. Sex should not be fun, okay? Sex can be lots of things - thrilling, romantic, scary, mindless, dirty, dangerous, frantic, forbidden, freaky - but if you're finding it 'fun,' you're doing it wrong.

Mil Millington

#25. As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

Herman Melville

#26. Lucky are you, reader, if you happen not to be of that sex to whom it is forbidden all good things; to whom liberty is denied; to whom almost all virtues are denied; lucky are you if you are one of those who can be wise without its being a crime.

Marie De Gournay

#27. We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.

Karl A. Menninger

#28. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.

Oscar Wilde

#29. I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas ... To the ancient Greeks and Romans, the known world comprised

Carl Sagan

#30. Check bags are fun. I just make sure there won't be anything illegal in my check bag which is forbidden at a cabin of a plane. Just leaving things like scissors and such out of my carry-on things in order to avoid troubles with some certain airline, y'know.

Kerry King

#31. There are no things man was not meant to know. There are, perhaps, things man is too dumb to figure out, but that's a different problem.

Michael Kurland

#32. It is forbidden, not to be happy. For, as it has been explained to us, men are free and the earth belongs to them; and all things on earth belong to all men; and the will of all men together is good for all; and so all men must be happy. Yet

Ayn Rand

#33. I found out that total creativity involves a certain intellectual rebellion - not to become a criminal, but somehow. to be totally creating, you have to do things that are a little bit forbidden. You have to feel free, and we know freedom is a hard thing to get.

Philippe Petit

#34. I might appear confident and chatty, but I spend most of my time laughing at jokes I don't find funny, saying things I don't really mean - because at the end of the day that's what we're all trying to do: fit in, one way or another, desperately trying to pretend we're all the same.

Tabitha Suzuma

#35. It's the picnic principle. Things taste better outdoors. And if it's a forbidden thing, so much the better.

Franny Billingsley

#36. A lot of things sound neutral, but they're not. A typical example would involve police violence. It's usually forbidden to call police "murderers," even if they're convicted of murder. People will say that it sounds hysterical and unobjective.

Molly Crabapple

#37. Edges are magic, too; there's a kind of forbidden magic on the borders of things, always a ceremony of crossing over, even if we ignore it or are unaware of it.

Ali Smith

#38. We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.

Ovid

#39. I have a long-standing interest in what I like to think of as 'forbidden knowledge:' methods of unarmed killing, lock picking, breaking and entry, spy stuff, and other things that the government wants only a few select individuals to know.

Barry Eisler

#40. All the dizzy and colossal things conceded depend upon one small thing withheld. All the wild and whirling things that are let loose depend upon one thing that is forbidden.

G.K. Chesterton

#41. A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden-beliefs and practices which unite into one single moral community called a Church, all those who adhere to them.

Emile Durkheim

#42. Because there are mysteries. Because there are things that people are forbidden to speak about. Because there are things they do not remember.

Neil Gaiman

#43. The whole forbidden-romance thing . . . it's a myth. No woman ever marries the man they have to hide. The adventure, the adrenaline, those things are fun while they last. But that kind of commitment is as temporary as the heartache you feel now.

Nicole Deese

#44. One of the things that struck me about the 1870s, which we still haven't nearly addressed, is what to do about the male-female divide. One of the forbidden topics is when men own up to the omnivorousness of their sexual interest and how to square that with being in love with an individual woman.

Michel Faber

#45. I never thought that sex was wrong, sinful, dirty. When you take away the thought of things being dirty or forbidden, then you can really enjoy your sensuality.

Gioconda Belli

#46. If it's the lack of forbidden you're worried about. You could still forbid me to do things."
"What kind of things?"
She felt him smile against her mouth. "Things like this.

Cassandra Clare

#47. Do people always fall in love with things they can't have?'
'Always,' Carol said, smiling, too.

Patricia Highsmith

#48. For all works and things, which are either commanded or forbidden by God and thus have been instituted by the
supreme Majesty, are 'musts.' Nevertheless, no one should be dragged to them or away from them by the hair, for I can drive no man to heaven or beat him into it with a club.

Martin Luther

#49. The funniest things are the forbidden.

Mark Twain

#50. My parents were always pretty free with me. They were of the school of thought that if you really cramp down on someone and tell them not to do all these things, it's gonna become like forbidden fruit.

Kathryn Prescott

#51. Live, my dear Nora. Satisfy your hunger. There's food all around you, you know.' 'What kind of food, I'd like to know?' 'Ah'-he smiled- 'you must taste all things, actually to know if you like them.' And what good is that, I wanted to ask, if the most delicious fruit is forbidden?

Claire Messud

#52. The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

Mark Twain