28 Quotes About Forbidden-fruit

Having something forbidden is exciting, don't you agree?

Tasting what could have been—what should have been—didn't make it easier.

Forbidden fruit is always very intriguing...though never as tasty as one imagined it would be.

He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.

Alas! the forbidden fruits were eaten,And thereby the warm life of reason congealed.A grain of wheat eclipsed the sun of Adam,Like as the Dragon's tail dulls the brightness of the moon.

Ich weiß nicht, woher ich die Courage nahm, zu Frau Schmitz zu gehen. Kehrte sich die moralische Erziehung gewissermaßen gegen sich selbst? Wenn der begehrliche Blick so schlimm war wie die Befriedigung der Begierde, das aktive Phantasieren so schlimm wie der phantasierte Akt – warum dann nicht die Befriedigung und den Akt?

It’s hard to imagine what changed after that first bite of forbidden fruit, but it must have been a little like the power going out in the dead of winter. The warm light of God’s perfect presence vanished and chill dread must have swollen inside them.

We have all a propensity to grasp at forbidden fruit.

Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.