Forbidden Quotes

• 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

  Hurt, Light, Doe

  Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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  There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

  Mark Twain

  Motivational, Forbidden Love, Temptation

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.31, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

  Tryon Edwards

  Death, May, Bread

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.1004, Ravenio Books

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• Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.

  Alexander Pope

  Short Love, Fire, Altars

  Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles, William Warburton, Joseph Warton (1806). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Sappho to Phaon. Eloisa to Abelard. The temple of fame. January and May. The wife of Bath. The first book of Statius's Thebais. The fable of Dryope. Vertumnus and Pomona. Imitations [of English poets] Miscellanies. Epitaphs”, p.44

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• Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Pride, Riches

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• Things forbidden have a secret charm.

  Tacitus

  Secret, Charm

  "Annales" (AD 117), XIII, 1, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 600-02, 1922.

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• The purpose of scientific enquiry is not to compile an inventory of factual information, nor to build up a totalitarian world picture of natural Laws in which every event that is not compulsory is forbidden. We should think of it rather as a logically articulated structure of justifiable beliefs about nature.

  Peter Medawar

  Thinking, Law, Information

  Peter Brian Medawar (1969). “Induction and intuition in scientific thought”

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• Forbidden to remember, terrified to forget; it was a hard line to walk.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, Lines, Remember

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “New Moon”, p.72, Hachette UK

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• All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.

  Alain Robert

  Hiking, Mountain, Building

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• But for Muslims, everything that they don't have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.

  Barbara Walters

  Sex, Heaven, Literature

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• The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

  Mark Twain

  Literature, Forbidden Fruit, Forbidden Things

  Mark Twain (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every theft is forbidden, by simply locking you up.

  Karel Capek

  Claims, Theft, Prove

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• I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Boxing, Forbidden Love

  "Tyson unplugged: On media, fans and his reputation". www.espn.com. May 5, 2002.

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• At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is 'not done' to say it... Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the high-brow periodicals.

  George Orwell

  Thinking, Effectiveness, Ideas

  "The Freedom of the Press". Unused preface to George Orwell "Animal Farm" (August 17, 1945), first published in "The Times Literary Supplement", September 15, 1972.

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• We have one of our priests in prison right now for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Community, Three, Felons

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• Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral.

  Stefan Zweig

  Art, Power, Ephemeral

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• The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.

  Gerrit Smith

  Marriage, Reading, Southern

  Gerrit Smith (1837). “Letter of Gerrit Smith to Rev. James Smylie: Of the State of Mississippi”, p.10

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• Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating. They can breathe it.

  Jean Genet

  Air, Evil, Criminals

  Jean Genet, Edmund White (1993). “The selected writings of Jean Genet”, Ecco Pr

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• The next thing I would mention, and warn you against, is profaneness. This you know is forbidden by God.

  Jupiter Hammon

  Next, You Again, Knows

  Jupiter Hammon, Oscar Wegelin (1970). “America's First Negro Poet: The Complete Works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”

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• The bill would ban human cloning, and any attempts at human cloning, for both reproductive purposes and medical research. Also forbidden is the importing of cloned embryos or products made from them.

  Ken Calvert

  Purpose, Cloning, Research

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• I'm forbidden fruit. Once you go to certain households, mommy doesn't want you to see that dirty man who sticks his tongue out and spits out blood and all that stuff.

  Gene Simmons

  Dirty, Men, Naughty

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• We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Illegal Things, Envy, Wish

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• Sleeping is forbidden at the age of 22. It's all work and no play.

  Usher

  Sleep, Play, Age

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• I myself believe that there will one day be time travel because when we find that something isn't forbidden by the over-arching laws of physics we usually eventually find a technological way of doing it.

  David Deutsch

  Travel, Believe, Law

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• Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.

  Mark Twain

  Tired, Reason, Concern

  "The Gorky Incident". Essay by Mark Twain, 1906.

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