Francois Rabelais Quotes

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.

Sydney: Ever had that happen? Once you can’t have something, you want it that much more.” Adrian: “Yes. It happens all the time.

We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have.

We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.

It's one of the most basic laws of human nature, isn't it? The more we are denied something, the more we want it. The more silence given to this or that topic, the more power.

We all desire things that we believe we cannot have, and so my films reflect that again and again. The mystery must be solved, the goal attained.

Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.

If you tell kids they can't have something, that's what they want.

I don't like things held up before me that I cannot have.

We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.

What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.

Restriction generates yearning. You want what you cannot have.

You can't forbid children to do things that are available to them at every turn. God told Eve, 'Don't give the apple to Adam,' and look what happened. It's in our nature to want the things we see.

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

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

If you deprive yourself of something, you're going to want it more.

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

When I'm not supposed to do something, it becomes more attractive to me.

We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

I think it's impossible not to see something you wanted happen to someone else and maybe wish it for yourself.

Love is the most elusive thing I know. Always an arm's length away, teasing me and asking me to stretch a bit more and grab it.

We are the total of our longings.

There are very few things in my life that I can't have if I want them. So when I see something that I can't have, immediately I'm obsessed by it.