What am I forbidden now?

It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.

— Anthony Hecht

And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power…

— Joyce Carol Oates

science progresses by trial and error, and when it is forbidden to admit error there can be no progress.

— Joan Robinson

I remember being in a comic shop with my son, with my ten year-old son and he put his hand over my eyes. He…

— Francoise Mouly

Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.

— Thomas Mann

“Let us not neglect the forbidden. Let us not sophisticate ourselves out of the cheap thrill and chill of it: the story told for…

— Clive Barker

Men cannot labor on always. They must have intervals of relaxation. They cannot sleep through these intervals. What are they to do? Why, if…

— Orville Dewey

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for…

— Oscar Wilde

If it's not forbidden, then it's allowed

— Robert Jordan

Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they…

— John Milton

“a hot dog shop where ketchup was forbidden,”

— A.R. Wise

It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The Church is the house of God. It is forbidden for men to enter with bare arms or in shorts. It is forbidden for…

— Pio of Pietrelcina

The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion,…

— Anonymous

In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another. For no one by…

— Baruch Spinoza