106 Forbidden Love Quotes

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Famous Forbidden Love Quotes

Things forbidden have a secret charm. — Tacitus

The forbidden fruit is always the sweetest. — English Proverbs

The star-crossed lovers - Suzanne Collins

The star-crossed lovers — Suzanne Collins

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

A pair of star-crossed lovers. — William Shakespeare

Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love. It did not end well. — Laini Taylor

True love is usually the most inconvenient kind. — Kiera Cass

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become. — Mark Twain

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

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us. - Francois Rabelais

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us. — Francois Rabelais

Love has no boundaries. — Andrej Pejic

My only love sprung from my only hate. — William Shakespeare

While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster. — Abigail Van Buren

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

For we were little Christian children and early learned the value of forbidden fruit. — Mark Twain

Short Forbidden Love Quotes

  • Nothing is impossible for pure love. — Mahatma Gandhi
  • What force is more potent than love? — Igor Stravinsky
  • Love is evil – it will make you fall in love with a goat. — Russian Proverbs
  • Love can sometimes achieve the impossible — Nicholas Sparks
  • I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too. — Mike Tyson
  • There are no boundaries or limits when it comes to love — Onew
  • Luce and Daniel fell in love for the first- and the last- time — Lauren Kate
  • How far should a person go in the name of true love? — Nicholas Sparks
  • The best love affairs are those we never had. — Norman Lindsay
  • Love is a misunderstanding between two fools. — Oscar Wilde

Forbidden Love Image Quotes

Forbidden love quote Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it truth. Feed it with love
Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it truth. Feed it with love.

Forbidden Things Quotes

A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden-beliefs and practices which unite into one single moral community called a Church, all those who adhere to them. — Emile Durkheim

I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things. — Edgar Allan Poe

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

Forbidden love quote The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measur
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. — Oscar Wilde

As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts. — Herman Melville

I might appear confident and chatty, but I spend most of my time laughing at jokes I don't find funny, saying things I don't really mean - because at the end of the day that's what we're all trying to do: fit in, one way or another, desperately trying to pretend we're all the same. — Tabitha Suzuma

Forbidden love quote Everyone comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack.
Everyone comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack.

Reading in bed is a self-centered act, immobile, free from ordinary social conventions, invisible to the world, and one that, because it takes place between the sheets, in the realm of lust and sinful idleness, has something of the thrill of things forbidden. — Alberto Manguel

Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them. — Oscar Wilde

I loved the Romeo and Juliet of the whole thing; this forbidden love between these two characters. — Tyler Hoechlin

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

Forbidden Quotes

Men have such a good opinion of themselves, of their mental superiority and intellectual depth; they believe themselves so skilled in discerning the true from the false, the path of safety from those of error, that they should be forbidden as much as possible the perusal of philosophic writings. — Al-Ghazali

It is forbidden to decry other sects; the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour. — Ashoka

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. — Voltaire

Forbidden love quote How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

In the Garden of Eden Eve showed more courage than Adam.. when the serpent offered the forbidden fruit. She knew that there was something better than paradise. — Cesare Borgia

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

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

Forbidden love quote If I cut you off chances are you handed me the scissors.
If I cut you off chances are you handed me the scissors.

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

Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is. - John Chrysostom

Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is. — John Chrysostom

Forbidden fruit is the sweetest. — Russian Proverbs

Stolen foods are the best. — Vietnamese Proverbs

Impossible Love Quotes

When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again. — Albert Einstein

I love you because I love you, because it would be impossible not to love you. I love you without question, without calculation, without reason good or bad, faithfully, with all my heart and soul, and every faculty. — Juliette Drouet

God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the impossible. — William Booth

Forbidden love quote To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.
To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.

The wonderful thing about praying is that you leave a world of not being able to do something, and enter God’s realm where everything is possible. He specializes in the impossible. Nothing is too great for His almighty power. Nothing is too small for His love. — Corrie Ten Boom

I describe family values as responsibility towards others, increase of tolerance, compromise, support, flexibility. And essentially the things I call the silent song of life-the continuous process of mutual accommodation without which life is impossible. — Salvador Minuchin

At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality. — Che Guevara

Forbidden love quote Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.

May God remind us daily-no matter what kind of obstacles we face-that we are loved and empowered by the One who brought the universe into existence with the mere sound of His voice. Nothing is impossible for Him. — Beth Moore

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it. — Barack Obama

Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible. — Thomas Merton

Nothing is impossible for a man with a strong will. The possible is in store only for a man who loves the future. There is no word "impossible" in the Korean language. — Kim Jong Il

Forbidden Fruit Quotes

Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful. — Benjamin Franklin

Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree. — Johann Arndt

Forbidden fruit is sweet. — Russian Proverbs

Forbidden love quote I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love and a little drunk.
I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love and a little drunk.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It is the prohibition that makes anything precious. — Mark Twain

You got to set your mind right and the rest will come to you naturally. No restrictions, no hang-ups, no stupid rules, no formalities, no forbidden fruit - just everyone getting and giving as much as he and she can. — Ray Charles

The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the tree of knowledge. The subtext is, All the suffering you have is because you wanted to find out what was going on. — Frank Zappa

Forbidden love quote The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

Adam did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden. — Mark Twain

I read a review on the Herald, it says it takes 40 minutes to get to the first sex session apparently and the whole movie only contains 11 minutes of forbidden fruit. — John Key

When once the woman has tempted us, and we have tasted the forbidden fruit, there is no such thing as checking our appetites, whatever the consequences may be. — George Washington

Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit/Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste/Brought death into the world, and all our woe,/With loss of Eden, till one greater Man/Restore us, and regain the blissful seat,/Sing heavenly muse — John Milton

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More Forbidden Love Quotes

A sage once said, ‘How shall I open my heart, oh friend? It is forbidden for me to speak. I am about to die for lack of a kindred soul to understand my misery. Simply by looking in her eyes I find the beloved of my heart. But rare is such a soul who swims in ecstatic bliss on the high tide of heavenly love. — Trevor Hall

We all have the seeds of love in us.We can develop this wonderful source of energy, nurturing the unconditional love that does not expect anything in return. — Nhat Hanh

My heart tells me this is the best and greatest feeling I have ever had. But my mind knows the difference between wanting what you can’t have and wanting what you shouldn’t want. And I shouldn’t want you. — Cassandra Clare

Love proves itself by deeds, so how am I to show my love? Great deeds are forbidden me. The only way I can prove my love is by scattering flowers and these flowers are every little sacrifice, every glance and word, and the doing of the least actions for love. — Therese of Lisieux

If I were you I'd promise to live life for all it's worth, take all you've been given and leave your mark upon this Earth. Trust your heart to show you everything you need...and if you were you, I'd fall in love with me. — Collin Raye

Among all the many kinds of first love, that which begins in childish companionship is the strongest and most enduring: when passion comes to unite its force to long affection, love is at its spring-tide. — George Eliot

Never's just the echo of forever, lonesome as a love that might have been. Let me go on lovin' and believin' 'til it's over. Please don't tell me how the story ends. — Kris Kristofferson

There is a kind of love, the excess of which forbids jealousy. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld

There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then. — Cassandra Clare

It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love-this hunger of the heart-as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit to the yoke, and change the face of the world. — George Eliot

If he touched her, he couldn't talk to her, if he loved her he couldn't leave, if he spoke he couldn't listen, if he fought he couldn't win. — Arundhati Roy

Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers. — Philip James Bailey

I want to tell her that I can't pull her down. I want to tell her that she has to let go of my hand in order to swim. I want to tell her that she must live her own life. But I sense she already knows that these options are open to her. And that she, too, has made her choice. — Tabitha Suzuma

Pleasures are like photographs: in the presence of the person we love, we take only negatives, which we develop later, at home, when we have at our disposal once more our inner dark room, the door of which it is strictly forbidden to open while others are present. — Marcel Proust

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire. — Quintilian

It is a wonderful subduer-this need of love, this hunger of the heart. — George Eliot

Love finds an altar for forbidden fires. — Sayings

It is utterly forbidden to be half-hearted about gardening. You have got to love your garden whether you like it or not. — W. C. Sellar

The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down, half-finished loves. — Ralph Washington Sockman

Judgement is the forbidden objectivization of the other person which destroys single-minded love. I am not forbidden to have my own thoughts about the other person, to realize his shortcomings, but only to the extent that it offers to me an occasion for forgiveness and unconditional love, as Jesus proves to me. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility. — W. H. Auden

The point about L-O-V-E is that we hate the word. Because we vulgarize it. It should be taboo, forbidden from utterance for many years, till we've found a new and a better idea. — Larry Kramer

Falling in love is one of the activities forbidden that tiresome person, the consistently reasonable man. — Arthur Eddington

Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Sometimes what we call love is just a settling of old scores, or a seeking of forbidden pain, or a circuitous path to the kingdom of cruelty, or she may simply have confused lack of capital with heroism while searching for rescue without knowing from what. — Anne Roiphe

Love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object, and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery. — George Eliot

Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbidden love that Spock has for Kirk? Well, me too.' It was easier for her to understand that way. — Holly Black

Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings. — George Eliot

I love making genre films. It's something I've really been attracted to since I was a kid, mostly because, as a kid, it was forbidden fruit. — Patrick Lussier

I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas. — Herman Melville

Night after night the nightingale came to beg for divine love, but though the rose trembled at the sound of his voice, her petals remained closed to him...Flower and bird, two species never meant to mate. Yet at length the rose overcame her fear and from that single, forbidden union was born the red rose that Allah never intended the world to know. — Susan Kay

In the deepest hour of the night I confess to myself three things; I would die if I was forbidden to write, forbidden to love, or forbidden to fashion....love each other, and celebrate the art and lifestyle of music. — Sayings

I physically need to make art. Art isn't just a hobby for me. It's not something that I like. It's an intense passion, an ecstatic love affair, with as much turmoil, frustration, exasperation and need as a forbidden liaison. — Sarah Lacy

it is forbidden to love where we are not loved — Sharon Olds

If love is great, then it is worth fighting for.” “What if it is immoral somehow? Forbidden?” “Forbidden? But my father’s love for my mother was forbidden, or at least against the law. Or do mean if she is married, or a vampire?” “Or a married vampire.” “Well, nevertheless,” Will said, with a grin. “One should fight on. Love conquers all.” Will and Jem — Cassandra Clare

We mustn't keep meeting like this. Communications between the people of the moon and earth is forbidden...it is the way of the gods...we mustn't fall in love...but its already too late. — Naoko Takeuchi

I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts. — Herman Melville

Love, however, cannot be forbidden. The more that flame is covered up, the hotter it burns. Also love can always find a way. It was impossible that these two whose hearts were on fire should be kept apart. (Pyramus and Thisbe) — Edith Hamilton

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