Forbidden Longing Quotes

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

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

I wish it were not a sin to have liked it so.

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

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?

Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.

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.

As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.