Forbidden Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they only stand By ignorance? Is that their happy state, The proof of their obedience and their faith? O fair foundation laid whereon to build Their ruin!

  John Milton

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Envy

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton (1795). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.103

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

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Pride, Riches

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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 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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• The real irony is that the view of infinity as some forbidden zone or road to insanity - which view was very old and powerful and haunted math for 2000+ years - is precisely what Cantor's own work overturned. Saying that infinity drove Cantor mad is sort of like mourning St. George's loss to the dragon: it's not only wrong but insulting.

  David Foster Wallace

  Powerful, Real, Math

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• When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were strictly forbidden to use the first-person pronoun. There was kind of an electric charge around it. To come out from hiding and use the word 'I' carried a lot of fright for me.

  Lawrence Wright

  Nashville, Rights, Race

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• 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 corners with a few monstrous priests to keep them alive. Some people know things about the universe that nobody ought to know, and can do things that nobody ought to be able to do.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  People, Age, Alive

  H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “THE BEST OF H. P. LOVECRAFT (Occult & Supernatural Series): Horror Classics: The Call of Cthulhu, The Dunwich Horror, At the Mountains of Madness, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Shadow over Innsmouth, The Outsider, In the Vault, The Thing on the Doorstepäó_”, p.222, e-artnow

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• 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 for one hour in the Forbidden Forest. If, at the end of that hour, you have not come to me, have not given yourself up, then battle recommences. This time, I shall enter the fray myself, Harry Potter, and I shall find you, and I shall punish every last man, woman, and child who has tried to conceal you from me. One hour.

  J. K. Rowling

  Children, Men, Waiting

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• Surrender is forbidden. Sixth Army will hold their positions to the last man and the last round and by their heroic endurance will make an unforgettable contribution toward the establishment of a defensive front and the salvation of the Western world.

  Adolf Hitler

  Army, Men, Endurance

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.

  Carl Sagan

  Matter, Sacred, Sensitive

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.56, Ballantine Books

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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