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.
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.
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.
The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.
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.
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.
For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That's what we call freedom.
All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.
Sleeping is forbidden at the age of 22. It's all work and no play.
That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.
The people are forbidden to give aid and comfort to rebels. What of a government that has the power to cut off from aid and comfort all the rebels of the South and fails to exercise it?