Quotes About Taboo

Cock size was a thing she hadn't talked about since college, now that she thought about it. Who discusses such things when they get older? Who has the leisure time?)

So holy was the Bull that nothing unlucky might come near him; the youths and maidens must have both their parents alive, they must not have been under the taboo, the infection, of death.

It's like the songs small children sing. 'Shit and piss. And blood, and sperms and slime and vomit and pus and snot and sweat.

It sounds not only disagreeable but also paradoxical, yet it must nevertheless be said that anyone who is to be really free and happy in love must have surmounted his respect for women and have come to terms with the idea of incest with his mother or sister.

I want all the books on the shelves. I want the books with dinosaur words like nigger that show the skeletons in our national closet. I want books with the word cunt as well as the word kike. Words don't scare me. Suppressing them does.

All he knew was that he could not eat the flesh of this black man, and thus hereditary instinct, ages old, usurped the functions of his untaught mind and saved him from transgressing a worldwide law of whose very existence he was ignorant.

The best explanation of masochism, the appeal of masochism, is that it accepts shame; the sickening shame one must swallow and hide is at last accepted, employed, even loved—the shame about a mutilation, hairiness, too much or not enough fat, the shame about wanting to serve, to be a dog, son, wife, slave, horse, prisoner.

For me, as for many kids, words had a magical (and sometimes sexual) aura, and I would look up in my mother's medical dictionary words such as penis , intercourse , or homosexuality , exciting words no matter how dispiriting the definition, exciting just because they appeared in print.

Charles used to say, "If God had meant boys to be fucked, he would have put a hole in their ass.

They all said the way to a man's heart was through his asshole.

Sissy looked at the shot glass full of pig semen and threw it back neat.

There is something about uncleanness that asks for blood.

Why do you think Adam and Eve were concerned about uncovered genitals, but not bare arms, legs, noses, or ears?

Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'

Chastity—the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provincialism.

The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.

Hay algo de prohibido en el hastío, algo que hace avergonzarse de hastiarse. Como si no bastara con el sufrimiento está también la vergüenza.

I used to think anyone with abandonment issues was a waste of space. But you do need to get help. Blokes don't talk about those things. It's a taboo in the bloke world.

When a lot of people are distrusting the news they watch, comedians are stepping up talking about things that most people are too afraid to talk about, shining light on problems nobody else will admit, whether it's Samantha Bee or John Oliver or Trevor Noah.

When someone watches us eating, we feel exposed. We might also harbor a suspicion that the person staring wants to steal food from our plate. The taboo, in any case, is long-standing.

Watching 'The Jeremy Kyle Show' is my guilty pleasure.

I don't know what the next frontier is, but good comedy should put its toe into taboo waters. You have to transgress a little bit, and that area shifts with culture and with the year.

The only way I can lose is if I'm caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy.