Forbidden Quotes - Page 7

• It's the picnic principle. Things taste better outdoors. And if it's a forbidden thing, so much the better.

  Franny Billingsley

  Principles, Picnics, Taste

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• I hate high heels. Walking in high heels for eight hours a day should be forbidden by the Geneva Convention.

  Libba Bray

  Hate, Eight, High Heels

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.36, Scholastic Inc.

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• 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 knees went up and down, that I simply did not know a thing about my darling's mind and that quite possibly, behind the awful juvenile cliches, there was in her a garden and a twilight, and a palace gate - dim and adorable regions which happened to be lucidly and absolutely forbidden to me, in my polluted rags and miserable convulsions.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Twilight, Garden, Adorable

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.377, Vintage

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• For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.

  Adrienne Rich

  Mean, Way, Capacity

  Adrienne Rich (2010). “A Human Eye: Essays on Art in Society, 1997-2008”, p.143, W. W. Norton & Company

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• But even quashed rebellions leave us different. Because freedom may be a forbidden fruit in tyrannies, but once tasted, it is unforgettable.

  Justina Chen

  Different, May, Fruit

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• Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death?

  John Milton

  Envy, Sin, Lord

  John Milton, Alastair Fowler (2007). “Paradise Lost”, p.251, Pearson Education

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• 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 the forbidden fruit.

  Victor Hugo

  Apples, Tree, Fruit

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.446, BookCaps Study Guides

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• 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 as though Sonoko were an abyss above which I stood poised.

  Yukio Mishima

  Persistence, Long, Fruit

  Yukio Mishima (1958). “Confessions of a Mask”, p.194, New Directions Publishing

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• 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 begin to tell the truth that reason denies.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Memories, Giving, Childhood

  Herbert Marcuse (2015). “Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud”, p.19, Beacon Press

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• Excuse me, but aren't boys forbidden on this floor?' Macey said on our way to the suite. 'That's the advantage of being the only boy,' he (Zach) said. 'No one actually comes right out and makes rules like that.

  Ally Carter

  Boys, Way, Excuse

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• There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed rest, needed to escape from the demanding complexity of phenomena and lie hidden on the bosom of the simple and tremendous; because of a forbidden longing deep within him that ran quite contrary to his life's task and was for that very reason seductive, a longing for the unarticulated and immeasurable, for eternity, for nothingness. To rest in the arms of perfection is the desire of any man intent upon creating excellence; and is not nothingness a form of perfection?

  Thomas Mann

  Lying, Artist, Simple

  "Death in Venice". Book by Thomas Mann, translated by David Luke. Chapter 3, 1912.

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• We are chained hand and foot by protocol, enslaved to a static, empty world where men and women can’t read, where the scientific advances of the ages are the preserve of the rich, where artists and poets are doomed to endless repetitions and sterile reworking of past masterpieces. Nothing is new. New does not exist. Nothing changes, nothing grows, evolves, develops. Time has stopped. Progress is forbidden

  Catherine Fisher

  Artist, Past, Men

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• I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves within me, that it might be I whom they express in flesh and bone, and I remain at a distance. But it is also by this distance that the sky and the water exist before me. My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy. I can not appropriate the snow field where i slide. It remains foreign, forbidden, but I take delight in this very effort toward an impossible possession. I experience it as a triumph, not as a defeat.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Distance, Thinking, Sky

  Simone de Beauvoir (2011). “The Ethics of Ambiguity”, p.6, Open Road Media

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• I knew there was a reason I didnt turn you into a banana slug." Leonid'd eyes widened. "No banana slug! Please!" "It was a compliement, silly. Forbidden is good! Sadie likes forbidden!

  Rick Riordan

  Silly, Eye, Slugs

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• Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Hurtful, Action, Vicious

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.137, Applewood Books

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• In the time between the two wars, a British colonial officer said that with the invention of the airplane the world has no secrets left. However, he said, there is one last mystery. There is a large country on the Roof of the World, where strange things happen. There are monks who have the ability to separate mind from body, shamans and oracles who make government decisions, and a God-King who lives in a skyscraper-like palace in the Forbidden City of Llhasa.

  Heinrich Harrer

  Country, Kings, War

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• With six weeks' worth of recuperation time, you'll also be able to see any glaring holes in the plot or character development. And listen--if you spot a few of these big holes, you are forbidden to feel depressed about them or to beat up on yourself. Screw-ups happen to the best of us.

  Stephen King

  Character, Screw Ups, Plot

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.214, Simon and Schuster

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• Without any censorship, in the West fashionable trends of thought and ideas are carefully separated from those which are not fashionable; nothing is forbidden, but what is not fashionable will hardly ever find its way into periodicals or books or be heard in colleges. Legally your researchers are free, but they are conditioned by the fashion of the day.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Fashion, Book, College

  A World Split Apart, delivered 8 June 1978, Harvard University

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• 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

  Rivers, Mirrors, Hands

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• He had put his hand up in class, a declaration of existence, a claim that he knew something. And that was forbidden to him. They could give a number of reasons for why they had to torment him; he was too fat, too ugly, too disgusting. But the real problem was simply that he existed, and every reminder of his existence was a crime.

  John Ajvide Lindqvist

  Real, Hands Up, Numbers

  John Ajvide Lindqvist (2010). “Let Me In”, p.10, Macmillan

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• Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Mistress, Instinct, Humans

  "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1966.

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• In the midst of a foggy field, the answers are hidden But the impossible journey deems them forbidden. The Reaper of Death, the Angel of Life. They walk together in day and night.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Angel, Night, Journey

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• Man, I want to be someone's forbidden fruit." "Well, you are pretty fruity.

  Darynda Jones

  Men, Want, Fruit

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Death and the Girl Next Door”, p.173, Macmillan

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• Ancient mirror Macick mirror Shades of gray Hidden Forbidden Within, away Part the mist Macick kissed Call the fey Reveal the past The spell is cast I save the day!

  P. C. Cast

  Past, Mirrors, Fey

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• The victimization of children is nowhere forbidden; what is forbidden is to write about it.

  Alice Miller

  Children, Writing, Child Abuse

  Alice Miller (1998). “Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society's Betrayal of the Child”, p.235, Macmillan

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