Quotes About Forbidden
She saw Narcissus roaming through the country, / Saw him, and burned, and followed him in secret / Burning the more she followed, as when sulfur / Smeared on the rim of torches, catches fire / When other fire comes near it. Oh, how often / She wanted to come near with coaxing speeches, / Make soft entreaties to him! / But her nature / Sternly forbids...
~ Ovid
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Se, mikä on sallittua, ei ole mieluisaa. Mikä on kiellettyä, siihen on palava halu.
~ Ovid
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Ancient mirror Macick mirror Shades of gray Hidden Forbidden Within, away Part the mist Macick kissed Call the fey Reveal the past The spell is cast I save the day!
~ P.C. Cast
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Nobody ever wants to do anything except what they are not allowed to do.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
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Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.
~ Pablo Picasso
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Somewhere, the billion dreams of the town since its origin stirred in a maelstrom far from the reach of the shrimpers' nets. Old dreams still burned with the power of their one night on earth, but burned deep and forbidden in regions denied to men.
~ Pat Conroy
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By carefully editing what I thought would harm her, I turned my childhood into something as glamorous as forbidden fruit.
~ Pat Conroy
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They roared into the Lincoln Tunnel. A wild, inexplicable excitement mounted in Therese as she stared through the windshield. She wished the tunnel might cave in and kill them both, that their bodies might be dragged out together. She felt Carol glancing at her from time to time.
~ Patricia Highsmith
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But maybe it was just a sort of Bluebeard's wife thing. You can't help yourself: Open the door, you stupid bitch. Go ahead.
~ Dan Chaon
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I never told you that, even after telling you I love you, all those times all that day, I never told you how beautiful it was then, like everyone was telling us not to be.
~ Daniel Handler
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A fost r?u c? Adam È™i Eva au mâncat din pomul cunoaÈ™terii. A fost r?u când au v?zut c? sunt goi È™i când au înv??at ce sunt poftele È™i ruÈ™inea. ?i au fost goniÈ›i din Paradis È™i s-au închis porÈ›ile dup? ei. Dac? nu s-ar fi întâmplat asta, nimeni n-ar mai trebui s? îmb?trânesc?, s? se îmboln?veasc? È™i s? moar?.
~ Daniel Keyes
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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
~ Mark Twain
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What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman's dressing-gown, when she is alone in her room at night!
~ Wilkie Collins
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Kiss me, Bayard. No. You are Father's wife. And eight years older than you are. And your fourth cousin too. And I have black hair. Kiss me, Bayard.
~ William Faulkner
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There had stood a great house in the centre of the gardens, where now was left only that fragment of ruin. This house had been empty for a great while; years before his—the ancient man's—birth. It was a place shunned by the people of the village, as it had been shunned by their fathers before them. There were many things said about it, and all were of evil. No one ever went near it, either by day or night. In the village it was a synonym of all that is unholy and dreadful.
~ William Hope Hodgson
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Elvis, stop dat! You know it is taboo to whistle at night. You will attract a spirit.
~ Chris Abani
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That which must not, can not be.
~ Christian Morgenstern
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She cried, "Laura," up the garden, "Did you miss me? Come and kiss me. Never mind my bruises, Hug me, kiss me, suck my juices Squeezed from goblin fruits for you, Goblin pulp and goblin dew. Eat me, drink me, love me; Laura, make much of me; For your sake I have braved the glen And had to do with goblin merchant men.
~ Christina Rossetti
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We must not look at goblin men
~ Christina Rossetti
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As Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, has admitted regarding the suppression of the traditional Mass by Paul VI: "A community is calling its very being into question when it suddenly declares that what until now was its holiest and highest possession is strictly forbidden, and when it makes the longing for it seem downright indecent.
~ Christopher A. Ferrara
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Sexual desire is only the frustrated desire to eat human flesh.
~ Christopher Frayling
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In the time between the two wars, a British colonial officer said that with the invention of the airplane the world has no secrets left. However, he said, there is one last mystery. There is a large country on the Roof of the World, where strange things happen. There are monks who have the ability to separate mind from body, shamans and oracles who make government decisions, and a God-King who lives in a skyscraper-like palace in the Forbidden City of Llhasa.
~ Heinrich Harrer
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Fate is what it was. Yes, fate that the book I had with me was a novel written by my great-grandfather, a text you couldn't read because my great-grandfather had put a permanent ban on any of his works being translated into English, Russian, or French. He was adamant that these three are languages that break all the bones of any work translated into them.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
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What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies under the severest penalties!
~ Henry David Thoreau
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