It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying.
All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.
Sometimes doing the forbidden can be nice.
I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books to be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren's hands.
Folklore provides a socially sanctioned outlet for the discussion of the forbidden and taboo.
Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He be glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.
The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.
India does not encourage - India has forbidden - child labour. We are a rule-based and rule-governed country.