Forbidden Quotes

367 Forbidden quotes by 303 unique authors

As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong. — Tabitha Suzuma
like our parents always told us not to like firefighters warn against we're playing games and making the rules up as we go we're matching… — Naomi Shihab Nye
Pleasures are like photographs: in the presence of the person we love, we take only negatives, which we develop later, at home, when we have… — Marcel Proust
an intoxication with forbidden knowledge in which the natural things become unimportant. — Anne Rice
Have you ever found your heart's desire and then lost it? I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader. My childhood: days… — Audrey Niffenegger
I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things. — Edgar Allan Poe
I speak now, Harry Potter, directly to you. You have permitted your friends to die for you rather than face me yourself. I shall wait… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I'll tell you something of the forbidden horrors she led me into - something of the age-old horrors that even now are festering in out-of-the-way… — H P Lovecraft
Out of the millions and millions of people that inhabit this planet, he is one of the tiny few I can never have. — Tabitha Suzuma
Judgement is the forbidden objectivization of the other person which destroys single-minded love. I am not forbidden to have my own thoughts about the other… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
We mustn't keep meeting like this. Communications between the people of the moon and earth is forbidden...it is the way of the gods...we mustn't fall… — Naoko Takeuchi
I can’t tell you. I can’t tell you of all people. Throughout my life you were the one person I could turn to. The one… — Tabitha Suzuma
- I notice you didn't laugh, Mr. Black! - No, Your Majesty. We are forbidden to laugh at the things kings say, sire, because otherwise… — Terry Pratchett
[I]t was with a good end in mind – that of acquiring the knowledge of good and evil – that Eve allowed herself to be… — Moderata Fonte
He missed Hogwarts so much it was like having a constant stomachache. He missed the castle, with its secret passageways and ghosts, his classes, …… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
If it's not forbidden, then it's allowed — Robert Jordan
It's the picnic principle. Things taste better outdoors. And if it's a forbidden thing, so much the better. — Franny Billingsley
I hate high heels. Walking in high heels for eight hours a day should be forbidden by the Geneva Convention. — Libba Bray
…my Lolita remarked: “You know, what’s so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own”; and it struck me, as my automaton… — Vladimir Nabokov
For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are forbidden… — Adrienne Rich
But even quashed rebellions leave us different. Because freedom may be a forbidden fruit in tyrannies, but once tasted, it is unforgettable. — Justina Chen
Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death? — John Milton
He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting… — Victor Hugo
For a long time I had not approached the forbidden fruit called happiness, but it was now tempting me with a melancholy persistence. I felt… — Yukio Mishima
The psychoanalytic liberation of memory explodes the rationality of the repressed individual. As cognition gives way to re-cognition, the forbidden images and impulses of childhood… — Herbert Marcuse

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