90 Forbidden Love Quotes! Inspirational Forbidden Love Sayings
Forbidden Love Quotes
“The course of true love never did run smooth.” —William Shakespeare
“Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.” —Philip James Bailey
“I’m just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.” —Mike Tyson
“We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.” —Francois Rabelais
“It is a wonderful subduer-this need of love, this hunger of the heart.” —George Eliot
“There is a kind of love, the excess of which forbids jealousy.” —Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down, half-finished loves.” —Ralph Washington Sockman
“I loved the Romeo and Juliet of the whole thing; this forbidden love between these two characters.” —Tyler Hoechlin
“Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.” —George Eliot
“Love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object, and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.” —George Eliot
“We all have the seeds of love in us.We can develop this wonderful source of energy, nurturing the unconditional love that does not expect anything in return.” —Nhat Hanh
“If he touched her, he couldn’t talk to her, if he loved her he couldn’t leave, if he spoke he couldn’t listen, if he fought he couldn’t win.” —Arundhati Roy
“Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; smote the chord of self that, trembling, passed in music out of sight.” —Alfred Lord Tennyson
“There is no pretending,” Jace said with absolute clarity. “I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I’ll love you then.” —Cassandra Clare
“Never’s just the echo of forever, lonesome as a love that might have been. Let me go on lovin’ and believin’ ’til it’s over. Please don’t tell me how the story ends.” —Kris Kristofferson
“Among all the many kinds of first love, that which begins in childish companionship is the strongest and most enduring: when passion comes to unite its force to long affection, love is at its spring-tide.” —George Eliot
“It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love-this hunger of the heart-as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit to the yoke, and change the face of the world.” —George Eliot
“My heart tells me this is the best and greatest feeling I have ever had. But my mind knows the difference between wanting what you can’t have and wanting what you shouldn’t want. And I shouldn’t want you.” —Cassandra Clare
“Yeah, the whole family knows. It’s no big deal. One night at dinner I said, ‘Mom, you know the forbidden love that Spock has for Kirk? Well, me too.’ It was easier for her to understand that way.” —Holly Black
“If I were you I’d promise to live life for all it’s worth, take all you’ve been given and leave your mark upon this Earth. Trust your heart to show you everything you need…and if you were you, I’d fall in love with me.” —Collin Raye
“I want to tell her that I can’t pull her down. I want to tell her that she has to let go of my hand in order to swim. I want to tell her that she must live her own life. But I sense she already knows that these options are open to her. And that she, too, has made her choice.” —Tabitha Suzuma
“Love–what a volume in a word, an ocean in a tear, A seventh heaven in a glance, a whirlwind in a sigh, The lightning in a touch, a millennium in a moment, What concentrated joy or woe in blest or blighted love! For it is that native poetry springing up indigenous to Mind, The heart’s own-country music thrilling all its chords, The story without an end that angels throng to hear, The word, the king of words, carved on Jehovah’s heart.” —Martin Farquhar Tupper
“What deep and worthy love is so, whether of woman or child, or art or music. Our caresses, our tender words, our still rapture under the influence of autumn sunsets, or pillared vistas, or calm majestic statues, or Beethoven symphonies all bring with them the consciousness that they are mere waves and ripples in an unfathomable ocean of love and beauty; our emotion in its keenest moment passes from expression into silence, our love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.” —George Eliot
Inspirational Forbidden Love Quotes
“Forbidden love provides happiness when there is no happiness.
“There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness.
“There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.” —Mark Twain
“Some of the best moments in life are the ones you can’t tell anyone about.
“True love should be lived like an unperfect circle that has its bumps but never ends.
“You’ll always be mine, in the back of my mind…I’ll look for you first in my next life.
“I think we’re just gonna have to be secretly in love with each other and leave it at that.
“Love that we cannot have is the one that last the longest. Hurts the deepest, and feels the strongest.
“When unrequited love is the most expensive thing on the menu, sometimes you settle for the daily special.” —Miranda Kenneally
“My eyes are tempted by the smile of an angel, and your lips whisper secrets of forbidden love.” —Natasha Harvey
“We all have the seeds of love in us. We can develop this wonderful source of energy, nurturing the unconditional love that does not expect anything in return.” —Thich Nhat Hanh
“His hands are saying that he wants to hold her. His feet are saying that he wants to chase after her’ He’s probably forgotten that I’m here, beside him.” —Ai Yazawa
“I love him so very much, and he loves me. But we have to keep our love a secret from the world. I don’t know what to do, it’s breaking my heart.
“My heart tells me this is the best and greatest feeling I have ever had. But my mind knows the difference between wanting what you can’t have and wanting what you shouldn’t want. And I shouldn’t want you.” —Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
“I know that you only come into my life for a reason. You came at the time when I was feeling so down and tired of myself being judged by others. I needed someone. I needed a friend. You were there to cheer me up, accept and understand me for who I am.
Best Forbidden Love Quotes in Literature
“This is a fairy tale with teeth and claws.” —Ilsa J.Bick
“You should be kissed, by someone who knows how.” —Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
“It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.” —Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.” —Paldo neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
“Everything I have done, every change I have made to that circus, every impossible feat and astounding sight, I have done for her.” —Erin Morgernstern, The Night Circus
“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.” —Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“We cannot force ourselves to love—or to withhold it. At best, we can curb our actions. The heart itself is beyond control. That is its power, and its weakness.” —Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Place of Illusions
“My heart tells me this is the best and greatest feeling I have ever had. But my mind knows the difference between wanting what you can’t have and wanting what you shouldn’t want. And I shouldn’t want you.” —Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
“I want to imagine wrinkled time, and forests thick with wolves, and bleak midnight moors. I dream about people who don’t need to have sex to know they love each other. I dream about people who would only ever kiss you on the cheek.” —Card Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I’m Home
“You and I will both be Lissa’s gaurdians someday. I need to protect her at all cost. If a pack of Strogoi come, I need to throw my body between them and her. If I let myself love you, I won’t throw myself in front of her. I’ll throw myself in front of you.” —Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy
Quotes About Forbidden Love Affair
“Everyday life continues during a love affair.”
“You can still go home a loyal wife.”
“A love affair is a spirited ride over volcanoes.”
“Jealousy from a love affair is something even God can admit.”
“Don’t make your journey toward success a competition—make it a love affair.”
“I loved you for a thousand years and missed you in all of them.”
“You break me the hardest, make me the strongest, and keep me the softest.”
“He brought out the worst in me, and was the best thing that ever happened to me.”
“The game never changes, you must be in the secret before you are shown to the public.”
“True love is not a hide and seek game: in true love, both lovers seek each other.”
“Some men can love forever, some for six years, some for six months, and others for six hours.”
“Love affair. Doesn’t that sound so middle-aged? And also ill-fated. Like ill-fated is an understood prefix to love affair.”
“There are few things more mysterious than endings. I mean, for example, when did the Greek gods end, exactly?”
“Falling in love can be likened to someone, falling from a high building. The possible result will be unconsciousness if not death.”
“I’ll always wonder what time it is there; if you’re dreaming, or awake. My moon is your sun; my darkness, your light.”
“Never invest in any kind of relationship with anyone who is not willing to work on themselves just a little every day.”
“My dear, if heaven is truly a place, then it is situated in your heart, that special place that was reserved for me.”
“Remember thee! remember thee! Till Lethe quench life’s burning stream. Remorse and shame shall cling to thee, And haunt thee like a feverish”
“I wish I could hold your hand outside this room, go for a walk, sit on a patio, and watch the world go by.”
“So many love affairs doesn’t survive, because the couple has been very loving to each other but with the time they stop respecting each other.”
“Sticking to one person for a lifetime is not a waste of time or lack of better ones, it means you’ve found your place of eternity.”
“There is no compromise when it comes to someones delicate feelings, the only way out is to stop pretending and set yourself free from someones life.”
“A man’s love for a woman is not defined by his availability in bed, but by every ingredient he adds to improve the taste of the relationship.”
“It is better to lock up your heart with a merciless padlock, than to fall in love with someone who doesn’t know what they mean to you.”
“Only a fool would be patient enough to stay in a totalitarian love affair, and only the insincere will use anarchy to commit the sin of unfaithfulness.”
“It may not seem like much – a few kisses in the dark – but it was enough to burn a hole like an ulcer in my heart.”
“The heart becomes warmer when the mild heat of love is coming from two persons. one is in eternal cold and desolation without feeling the friction of love.”
“Flattery does not encourage the perfect flow of love in the vein of your relationship. Be genuine and speak out what you feel for each other without hiding the painful truth.”
“I can cast a spell on your behalf regarding a relationship, your financial situation, future events, or whatever is important to you. I have the power and I use the power.”
“If you’re nice, decent, attractive, get good grades and are talented, no one wants to read about that…They want to read what’s out-of the-ordinary, the scandalous, the shocking and the tragic.”
“The vacancy in your heart doesn’t connotes that nobody is seeking for the job of servicing your feelings, but because the employee must first have all the necessary credentials needed for the job.”
“Some people tend to throw your love to the dogs when you become totally submissive to them, but when you want to get out of the heat, they pull you back into the kitchen.”
“The beauty with modest smile, whose secrecy of silent love had just been stolen, beamed at this wonderful offer and she replenished herself with his love as a carefree child cossetted with luxurious warmth after a cold shower.”
Forbidden Love Quotes and Sayings
“No adultery is bloodless.” —Natalia Ginzburg
“Thou shalt not commit adultery.” —Bible
“Adultery is the application of democracy to love.” —Henry Louis Mencken
“Having something forbidden is exciting, don’t you agree?” —Allan Dare Pearce
“The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.”
“Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.” —Marcus Quintilian
“While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.” —Abigail Van Buren
“I couldn’t shake this feeling that I had uncovered more than something ordinary.” —Nicole Gulla
“Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.” —Katherine Anne Porter
“Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it’.” —James Patterson
“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.” —Frederico Lorca
“It is not the most lovable individuals who stand more in need of love, but the most unlovable.” —Ashley Montagu
“My last conscious thought was of my biggest mistake- not the boy beside me, but the one I could never have.”
“Even though we were never supposed to be together ‘I can’t be with anyone else, no matter the consequences.” —Nicole Gulla
“She hated that she was still so desperate for a glimpse of him, but it had been this way for years.” —Julia Quinn
“Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.” —Tryon Edwards
“How can you simply be friends with someone when every time you look at them, you’re thinking about how much more you really want.” —Dawsons Creek
“I think things that I shouldn’t. I dream things that I shouldn’t. I want things that I shouldn’t and it’s all because of one thing; I do care about you.” —H.M.Ward
“I am perfectly happy being his friend, in fact I love it… I just have this incredible urge to kiss him, that doesn’t go away… and this feeling that we would be perfect together.” —Unknown
“You wondered how you’d make it through. I wondered what was wrong with you. Because how could you give your love to someone else, yet share your dreams with me? Sometimes the only thing you’re looking for, is the one thing you can’t see.” —Vanessa Williams