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Quotes About Forbidden

In the Old Testament story God points out the one forbidden thing. Now, God must have known very well that man was going to eat the forbidden fruit. But it was by doing that that man became the initiator of his own life. Life really began with that act of disobedience.
~ Joseph Campbell
While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.
~ Abigail Van Buren
He stands on the stone table and selects a large fig, bites into the skin, then opens it with his fingers. He thinks of a woman's sex, ancient and eternal, no young girl would have such gritty sweetness. Was this not perhaps the fruit that got Adam and Eve thrown out of Eden? Who would want to give up an unblemished state of immortality for the insipid apple?
~ Achmat Dangor
Gilgal is connected to the verb "roll" ("g-l-l"), perhaps to undermine the original connotation of a circle of standing stones, seen as forbidden divine images
~ Adele Berlin
Peter and Jessie were like Romeo and Juliet. Have you ever seen that old movie? Starring Leonardo Dicaprio?
~ Adele Griffin
For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.
~ Adrienne Rich
Si vous vous asseyez sur la cuisse gauche de monsieur votre père, ne vous frottez pas le cul sur sa pine pour le faire bander, à moins que vous ne soyez seule avec lui.
~ Pierre Louÿs
Rien n'est plus vilain qu'une petite fille qui regarde bander son frère et ne fait rien pour le soulager.
~ Pierre Louÿs
We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.
~ Publilius Syrus
Forbidden things have a secret charm.
~ Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Things forbidden have a secret charm.
~ Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately when lawful, they do not excite desire.
~ Quintilian
We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us
~ Rabelais, Francois
I want to feel you up like we're sixteen in the backseat of a car. On the outside of your clothes," he said just above a whisper. "Touch you all over, then slide my hands up under your shirt.
~ Rachel Gibson
In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king's death or upon the identity of his successor.
~ Gore Vidal
I wasn't allowed to have sugar as a kid. We didn't have candy or soda or anything, so Easter and Halloween were my favorite times 'cause I could eat as much candy as I wanted.
~ Kaley Cuoco
I wish more than anything that I could have kept some of the costumes I had on 'Dreamland.' Obviously the 'Peaky Blinders' suits are just awesome but I'm not allowed to keep them.
~ Finn Cole
'Forever Amber,' written by Kathleen Winsor in 1944, was banned in Boston at the time of its publication as obscene and offensive. This alone would have been enough to excite my interest, but in 1956, it was sitting inoffensively on the shelves of the small country library on the north shore of Oahu, Hawaii, where my family spent its summers.
~ Susanna Moore
Just as the creative artist is not allowed to choose, neither is he permitted to turn his back on anything: a single refusal, and he is cast out of the state of grace and becomes sinful all the way through.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
He's spilled the beans. He's poured out His intentions, allowing us full access. The humans put the Forbidden Book on display tables and shelves. But we actually read it; indeed we must no matter how loathsome.
~ Randy Alcorn
There is death in the folds of her skirt and blood about her feet. She is for no man.
~ Joseph Conrad
NO KISS FORGOTTEN; it resides in the memory as in the flesh, and so Katya many times felt the press of Marcus Kidder's warm mouth on hers in the days and especially in the nights following. And her heartbeat quickened in protest: How could you! Kiss him! That old man! Kiss him! Let him put his arms around you ad kiss you and kiss him back! The old man's mouth and Katya Spivak's mouth! How could you.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
The Bog Kingdom. Bidding him enter! Ah, enter! There, all wishes are fulfilled. The more forbidden, the more delicious.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Secrets of the adult universe, forbidden for children to know: how beauty and suffering are intertwined.
~ Joyce Carol Oates