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Quotes About Forbidden

in this place everything is forbidden, not for hidden reasons, but because the camp has been created for that purpose.
~ Primo Levi
Nitimur in vetitum -- We strive after the forbidden
~ Publius Ovidius Naso
Shane was silent a moment, then let out a long breath. I bet I could convince you if I could get through these bars. . . . You'd get arrested all over again. Well, you're just that tempting. Jailbait. He kissed her fingers, which made her shiver all over; his lips lingered warm on her skin, reminding her of what it felt like to be alone with him, in that timeless...
~ Rachel Caine
Don't read it. Just shred and burn, or your eyes will melt.
~ Rachel Caine
I've loved him forever, but he can never be mine.
~ Rachel Hawthorne
Hot chocolate should be sinful, and I don't believe in sinning in half measures.
~ Rachel Hawthorne
The dead don't talk. Perhaps they know things about death that the living are not permitted to learn from them.
~ Dean Koontz
Romance only comes into existence where love is fatal, frowned upon and doomed by life itself.
~ Denis de Rougemont
Love like that? Hell, it seems so pure, it's damn near criminal.
~ Dennis Lehane
Oh, Lord! This must be what it's like to make love in Hell, he whispered. With a burning she-devil.
~ Diana Gabaldon
What would I do if he forbade me to go? Alternatives raced through my mind, everything from planting the ivory letter-opener between his ribs to burning down the house with him in it.
~ Diana Gabaldon
están prohibidas. Hasta hace algunos años, cualquiera que hubiera perdido en una partida clandestina podía reclamar en el plazo de ocho días que le devolvieran lo perdido.
~ Unknown
desire is so much sweeter when you cant have it.
~ Ilsa J. Bick
But to unite in a permanent religious institution which is not to be subject to doubt before the public even in the lifetime of one man, and thereby to make a period of time fruitless in the progress of mankind toward improvement, thus working to the disadvantage of posterity - that is absolutely forbidden. For himself (and only for a short time) a man may postpone enlightenment in what he ought to know, but to renounce it for posterity is to injure and trample on the rights of mankind .
~ Immanuel Kant
Perhaps the two of them wouldn't love each other so much if they were allowed to.
~ Unknown
The works of John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer, and Karl Marx had been forbidden. Students' libraries and clubs had been closed; and informers had been planted in the lecture halls. Entry fees had been raised fivefold to bar academic education to children of poor parents.
~ Isaac Deutscher
The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions.
~ Italo Calvino
We can prevent reading: but in the decree that forbids reading there will be still read something of the truth that we would wish never to be read.
~ Italo Calvino
Nesre?a nesre?nih ljudi i jeste u tome što za njih stvari koje su ina?e zabranjene postanu, za trenutak dostižne i lake, ili bar tako izgledaju, a kada se jednom trajno usele u njihove želje, one se pokažu opet kao ono što jesu: nedostupne i zabranjene, sa svim posledicama koje to ima po one koji za njima ipak posegnu.
~ Ivo Andri?
Give him a taboo and he feels the need to break it.
~ Damon Galgut
That they showed, in Keeler's own, authenticated script, that she considered Horus a man, not a transformed, daemonic being. Further, they related that it had been commonly known at the time that the Emperor denied His divinity. He had formally declared that He was not a god, and sought to suppress the notion that He was. The Lectitio Divinitatus was already growing back then. The notes showed that the Emperor wanted it proscribed and forbidden.
~ Dan Abnett
The grace of the sovereign God has never waited for us to make the first move. Forbidden fruit was still fresh on our first parents' lips when God stepped into the Garden of Eden and lavished undeserved favor on them. At the very moment when Adam and Eve deserved death that never ends, God clothed them with the skin of a beast and promised them a Son whose triumph would grind the serpent's skull into the ground (Genesis 3:15, 21).
~ Unknown
This is like a cookie, it tastes like a cookie having sex with a doughnut.
~ Daniel Handler
Words have a force far beyond that of ink stains on pages or spoken sounds... Whether written or spoken, language found in forbidden books can warp space-time and tear the fabric of reality.
~ Unknown