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Quotes About Forbidden

He wanted to toast mad idealism, forbidden desires, the dreams that drove one to criminal acts. He wanted, quite starkly, oblivion.
~ Unknown
Primeval forest,' he said. 'Original forest.' 'Wouldn't you like to build a house here and live alone with your wife?' 'Yes,' he said. 'Have a family and write something-poems and stories.' 'Maybe have four children.' 'It is not permitted,' he said. Then he smiled. 'But this is so far they wouldn't know. It wouldn't matter. Yes, I would like that.
~ Paul Theroux
It is something a man would never have thought of, or at least would never have dared express. And
~ Pauline Réage
I gaze lovingly at Hilal a love that is reflected through time or what we imagine to be time, as in a mirror. She was never mine and never will be; that is how it is. We are both creators and creatures, but we are also puppets in God's hands, and there is a line we cannot cross, a line that was drawn for reasons we cannot know. We can approach and even dabble our toes in the river but we are forbidden to plunge in and let ourselves be carried along by the current.
~ Paulo Coelho
El primer deseo es importante porque está escondido, prohibido, no permitido. No sabes si estás ante tu otra mitad perdida, ella tampoco lo sabe, pero algo te atrae, y es preciso creer que es verdad.
~ Paulo Coelho
And you can shove your apology. If it can come out of your damned mouth, then you can stand by it.
~ Unknown
They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.
~ Valentina Tereshkova
The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt
~ Unknown
I'd already decided I wanted to design shoes after I saw a sign in the Museum of African and Oceanic Art forbidding high heels. Well, who could resist?
~ Christian Louboutin
For many decades after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, the Soviet Union had been closed off, an almost forbidden place, another world. The Soviet oil industry operated largely in isolation, with little of the flow of technology and equipment that was common in the rest of the world.
~ Daniel Yergin
Bobos are uncomfortable with universal moral laws that purport to regulate pleasure. Bobos prefer more prosaic self-controlled regimes. The things that are forbidden are unhealthy or unsafe. The things that are encouraged are enriching or calorie burning. In other words, we regulate our carnal desires with health codes instead of moral codes.
~ David Brooks
Te occidere possunt sed te edere possunt nefas est.
~ David Foster Wallace
OCCIDERE POSSUNT SED TE EDERE NON POSSUNT NEFAS EST
~ David Foster Wallace
OCCIDERE POSSUNT SED TE EDERE NON POSSUNT NEFAS EST 32—and
~ David Foster Wallace
Romeo, Romeo. Wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name.
~ William Shakespeare
It is not, nor it cannot, come to good, But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.
~ William Shakespeare
Come on then, I will swear to study so To know the thing I am forbid to know - Berowne
~ William Shakespeare
Oh, Romeo, Romeo! ¿Por qué eres Romeo? Renuncia a tu padre, abjura tu nombre; o, si no quieres esto, jura solamente amarme y ceso de ser una Capuleto.
~ William Shakespeare
To vice you to't, that you have touch'd his queen Forbiddenly.
~ William Shakespeare
the pleached bower, Where honeysuckles ripened by the sun Forbid the sun to enter, like favorites Made proud by princes, that advance their pride Against that power that bred it.
~ William Shakespeare
Sapevo che era carina Sapevo che era sposata Mio padre disse, per legge ti è vietata Vidi che era impudente L'amore no non sente Non avevo mai visto una malizia così avventata. Senza una speranza vera Andai da lei una sera: In amore come in guerra, la libertà ti è data. I miei pensieri buoni svaniti in un momento Non mi fermò nessun avvertimento Non avevo mai visto una malizia così
~ Winston Graham
it is no disgrace but honourable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids;
~ Xenophon
onanists breaking a sweat on monkeys, ponies, birds;
~ Yann Martel
only sure way in Islam of achieving paradise is to sacrifice one's life in jihad . . . Suicide is forbidden as self-murder; but to sacrifice one's life in killing infidels carries the highest reward
~ Chuck Missler