68 Quotes About Taboo

Unspeakable"--unspeakability?--comes in three varieties.First, that which cannot be said because one does not know it, and therefore cannot say it.Second, that which cannot be spoken because it is culturally impermissible to do so.And third, that which cannot be named because it is impossible, since the language provides no terms, no words to enable articulation.

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.

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

It makes you crazy, for something you know to be true, know from the very core or root of you, to remain unspeakable.

There are two kinds of people in this world. Those that  live a charmed life, have everything at their disposal and those that work hard, struggle in life and make it to the top

A lot of men not only fear emotional pain, they are afraid to be transparent and vulnerable. To let an outsider even glimpse their confusion or suffering is a taboo that starts in adolescence and becomes more entrenched with adulthood.

Taboos, though unadmitted, are potent. What is it that people fear? What they don't understand. The civilized man is not a whit different from the savage in this respect. The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is, different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.

Conservatism is like plaque; even once scraped away, it builds up again to problematic levels, so that what is now permissible can yet again become taboo -

Once you break one taboo, others soon come thumgbling down. Once you start rolling downhill, you carry on rolling until you reach the lowest point. For someone with no aim in life and who has never known love, leading a respectable life seems utterly pointless and unbearable.