39 Quotes About Taboo

I felt like an animal, and animals don’t know sin, do they? Jess C. Scott

She started thinking about all the euphemisms for death, all the anxious taboos that had always fascinated her. It was too bad you could never have an intelligent discussion on the subject. People were either too young or too old, or else they didn't have time. Tove Jansson

There is no definitive answer as to why cannibalism provides us with such stimulation, although what is clear, and what remains extremely disturbing for me, is our increasing desensitization to violence and gore - a trait that does not bode well for the future. Bill Schutt

In the great meteor shower of August, the Perseid, I wail all day for the shooting stars I miss. They’re out there showering down, committing hari-kiri in a flame of fatal attraction, and hissing perhaps into the ocean. But at dawn what looks like a blue dome clamps down over me like a lid on a pot. The stars and planets could smash and I’d never know. Only a piece of ashen moon occasionally climbs up or down the inside of the dome, and our local star without surcease explodes on our heads. We have really only that one light, one source for all power, and yet we must turn away from it by universal decree. Nobody here on the planet seems aware of that strange, powerful taboo, that we all walk about carefully averting our faces, this way and that, lest our eyes be blasted forever. . Annie Dillard

In the literary world today, Christianity has pretty well replaced sex as the present pet taboo, not only because Christianity is so often distorted by Christians as well as non- Christians, but because it is too wild and free for the timid. Madeleine LEngle

Actually, nothing hurts like hearing the word slut, unless it is hearing the word rape dropped about carelessly. Again, a word I wouldn't have thought much about, except that when I was in high school a girl gave her senior speech on her best friend's rape. She ended not with an appear for women's rights or self defense, but by begging us to consider our language. We use the word 'rape' so casually, for sports, for a failed test, to spice up jokes. 'The test raped me.' 'His smile went up to justifiable rape.' These references confer casualness upon the word, embedding it into our culture, stripping it of shock value, and ultimately numb us to the reality of rape. Christine Stockton

I carry out sun rituals on the slopes of high mountains. But I am also taboo for myself, untouchable because forbidden. Clarice Lispector

I want to take you under the moonlight. Kassandra Cross

I’m a virgin Mr Cohen, ” Carrie said, “I’ve never been with a man before. Kassandra Cross

He had a hungry look in his eyes and it frightened her. Kassandra Cross

You are so beautiful, ” he whispered, kissing her softly on the lips. “I can’t believe I got to have you.” “You’re the only one who has, ” Carrie smiled, “And I wouldn’t have had it any other way. Kassandra Cross

I'm interested in things women do that aren't spoken about. Manto's stories let me breathe. They make me feel like less of a monster. Mohsin Hamid

I touched his hand, carefully. Not too intimate, but not some half-assed there-there pat, either. Would he understand? Usually the thought process for a seventeen-year-old boy went girl touching me>omg>boner. Leah Raeder

If you think you can stand looking and not touching for eight months, you're welcome to try."" Try' being the operative word, " he said, sighing. "No, I can't. And I don't want to try. Leah Raeder

Why does the forbidden always add that edge of sweetness? Robin Hobb

Because that was the problem with society. It cared too much about who you fell in love with but never about why. The why matters. L.J. Shen

Why the anchor?"" Because sometimes, it's nice to feel like there's someone who can save you. L.J. Shen

I think I like you, " I muttered, pressing my face to his muscled torso in a hug. I felt his heartbeat under my ear." I think I like you back. L.J. Shen

You feel pretty , manly to me, " I breathed out, all jelly-legged with half-mast eyes." And you feel like a woman worthy of a fight, Ms.Greene. L.J. Shen

Yes, Mel. That's exactly why I left without explaining. Because I think about you before I think about myself. Always remember that, Little Ballerina. Always. L.J. Shen

I am not sure if we are numbed to the reality of rape, but here's the sad irony. While the word rape can add an edginess to your language, talking about actual rape is taboo. I didn't know this until one of my friends was raped. Then I knew this, because I didn't want to tell anyone. If she were mugged, I would have told everyone and raged. Christine Stockton

How can we pick and choose which parts of the Bible to follow? One thing is God’s will and another is just cultural differences? What if it’s all cultural? What if homosexuality or saving yourself for marriage is as outdated as women staying silent in church or Leviticus forbidding tattoos? Trevor D. Richardson

Stigma's power lies in silence. The silence that persists when discussion and action should be taking place. The silence one imposes on another for speaking up on a taboo subject, branding them with a label until they are rendered mute or preferably unheard. M.B. Dallocchio

She had assumed they would see each other every day but she hadn’t really thought about the implications of having an affair with a married man. It wasn’t going to be a normal relationship. Kassandra Cross

You do bad things to me, Carrie, ” he grinned, “Very bad things. Kassandra Cross

But did he know that I'd already forgiven him for having rejected me? Maryam Schonbeck

I refuse to believe that all men are pigs and women competing whores. Anastasia

I refuse to believe all men are pigs and women competing whores.- A N A S T A S I A Anastasia

He says, "I would walk around the township and I could point them out, which girls had been abused. You could see it in them. There's a luminosity to incest. The taboo is so strong and the damage so great. Luminosity--do you understand? It travels across oceans and down generations. They shine with it. Emma Brockes

I have also figured out that for many people death is a difficult subject, not at all as simple as it is for me. Maija Haavisto

He methodically basted the dark skin of the Alsatian, which he had stuffed with garlic and herbs." One rule in life", he murmured to himself. "If you can smell garlic, everything is all right". J.G. Ballard

Mental health is one of the last great taboos. Stephen Fry

When people have tried everything and have discovered that nothing works, they will tend to revert to what they know best–which will often be the tribe, the totem, or the taboo. Christopher Hitchens

That night he wrote in his diary, "Challenge a remaining taboo." It was that simple. He had always wanted to understand genius, and now he had the formula. Freud, living in an age that prized its own seeming rationality, had found one of the remaining taboos and dared to think beyond it: he discovered infant sexuality and the unconscious, among other things. Galileo had gone beyond the taboo "Thou shalt not question Aristotle." Every great discovery had been the breaking of a taboo. . Robert Anton Wilson