A Quote by Simin Daneshvar

Mourning is not forbidden, you know. — © Simin Daneshvar
Mourning is not forbidden, you know.
There is nothing to be compared to this, 'cause we lost our brother, our hero. The world is mourning. We are mourning. The fans are mourning. It is unreal. Unbelievable.
Mourning doesn't always mean zen, mourning doesn't always mean somber, mourning can just be a celebration of a life of people. It's not always about wearing black and listening to a Sarah McLachlan song.
In the deepest hour of the night I confess to myself three things; I would die if I was forbidden to write, forbidden to love, or forbidden to fashion....love each other, and celebrate the art and lifestyle of music.
New Orleans taught me that mourning takes many different forms. Where I'm from, mourning is spirited. It is loud.
What is the difference between grief and mourning? Mourning has company.
Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering.
Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree.
People ask me why I wear veils. I reply, I am mourning. Mourning what? Well I figure something shitty must be going on somewhere.
For it is written that just as it is forbidden to partake of the forbidden, it is forbidden not to partake of the permitted.
It is an end with priests and gods, if man becomes scientific. Moral: science is the thing forbidden in itself - it alone is forbidden. Science is the first sin, the germ of all sin, original sin. This alones is mortality: Thou shalt not know.
I always thought I'd be the one to go first. The world might be mourning an Everly Brother, but I'm mourning my brother Phil.
A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.
The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.
Inherent in mourning is celebration. Mourning without celebration or some form of acceptance leaves you stuck.
The victimization of children is nowhere forbidden; what is forbidden is to write about it.
I've got to worry about Alonzo Mourning, because a year or two ago there was a chance that Alonzo Mourning wouldn't be standing here talking to you. That's the cold reality of it.
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