Quotes About Platonic Love

#1. There's different kinds of love, and I'd never experienced that kind of totally platonic love. All the love I've experienced has always been a kind of deal, and now, as I get older, I realise that there's this other love out there.

Tracey Emin

#2. The platonic love I feel for my cousin, made me write this diary ...
Leione

Pet Torres

#3. PLATONIC, adj. Pertaining to the philosophy of Socrates. Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.

Ambrose Bierce

#4. Russian ladies, for the most part, cherish only Platonic love, without mingling any thought of matrimony with it; and Platonic love is exceedingly embarrassing.

Mikhail Lermontov

#5. And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.

Leo Tolstoy

#6. If there is such a thing as platonic love between a man and a woman it is the result of a profound misunderstanding, a stifling of their true and authentic impulses.

George Clooney

#7. Platonic love is platonic nonsense.

Samuel Richardson

#8. I've been wondering if in fact ideal platonic love isn't just an intensely concentrated form of what inspires the best teachers.

Edmund Marlowe

#9. She was so fed up with unrequited love and platonic love and all the other kinds of love that weren't passionate, romantic, can't-live-without-you, I-have-to-have-you-right-now, the-beat-of-your-heart-matches-the-beat-of-mine love.

Sarra Manning

#10. Anxiety, heartbreak, and tenderness mark the in-between state. It's the kind of place we usually want to avoid. The challenge is to stay in the middle rather than buy into struggle and complaint. The challenge is to let it soften us rather than make us more rigid and afraid.

Pema Chodron

#11. Above all I am hoping for trees, which may afford me some means of concealment and food and shelter. Often there are trees because barren landscapes are dull and the Games resolve too quickly without them.

Suzanne Collins

#12. I imagine you dream of me on the nights I dream of you. I'm always so confused by the platonic way we enjoy each other's company. We talk about so many things that I can't recall when I wake up. How did you get me pregnant last night? We never touch in my dreams.

Crystal Woods

#13. But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I was going to be his friend, and was going to show him possibilities. And he, in turn, would become someone I could trust more than myself.

David Levithan

#14. No animal shall drink acohol, to excess.

George Orwell

#15. Nothing but Christian faith gives to the furthest future the solidity and definiteness which it must have if it is to be a breakwater for us against the fluctuating sea of present cares and thoughts.

Alexander MacLaren

#16. Once I take a case, I'm stuck with it.

David Boies

#17. Love? And not even some platonic cosmic love, but the carnal attraction between two mammals? Do you really think that an all-knowing super-computer or aliens who contrived to conquer the entire galaxy would be dumbfounded by a hormonal rush?' By

Yuval Noah Harari

#18. There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing.

James A. Garfield

#19. Ah, mate. My soul loves yours. It does. But this lifetime, my body won't get on board.

Molly Ringle

#20. When I think of the word "organic," I think of natural, wholesome, and fundamental.
That's exactly what I want my children's education to be like.

Tamara L. Chilver

#21. The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open.

Philip Roth

#22. When I said yes,
it implies till death,
and forever thence.

When I said love,
it connotes trust,
allied in situations tough.

And today,
when I hold your hand,
I am prepared to stand,
any trouble,
any avalanche.

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

#23. For in those days love was ruled by a different convention to ours. In those days it was chivalrous, adult, long, religious, almost platonic. It was not a matter about which you could make accusations lightly. It was not, as we take it to be nowadays, begun and ended in a long week-end.

T.H. White

#24. Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.

Oscar Wilde

#25. I really like suspense in movies. I don't really like rom-coms. But that being said, as an audience member I really like horror films and actress I really like working with fake blood; I think it's so fun.

Grace Phipps

#26. If I had to name a driving force in my life, I would name PASSION every time

Anita Roddick

#27. Music speaks of Platonic truth - the ideal river rather than the polluted reality, love as we dream it rather than we experience it, grief noble and uplifting rather than our distracted weeping. It is necessary to our survival and our sanity.

Pam Brown

#28. I am the most interesting book of all.

Marie Bashkirtseff

#29. A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person.

Evelyn Beatrice Hall

#30. The chambermaid believed in courtly love. A book's physical self was sacrosanct to her, its form inseparable from its content; her duty as a lover was Platonic adoration, a noble but doomed attempt to conserve forever the state of perfect chastity in which it had left the bookseller.

Anne Fadiman

#31. I have found that the platonic affection
in friendships and familial
love for children can be relied upon
with certainty to lift the bruised soul
and repair the wounded spirit

Maya Angelou

#32. It's time that we finally admitted that we can see the love that's everywhere, filial and romantic and platonic and shared by all different types of people, in all different combinations. This is the future. All we have to do is open our eyes, and see.

Seanan McGuire

#33. It's not that I can't fall in love. It's really that I can't help falling in love with too many things all at once. So, you must understand why I can't distinguish between what's platonic and what isn't, because it's all too much and not enough at the same time.

Jack Kerouac

#34. Wither thou goest, I will go; thy people shall by my people; where thou diest, will I die, and there I be buried.

Cassandra Clare

#35. We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.

Thomas Hardy

#36. I experimented a bunch with Ernie Ball in getting the strings to not flop around too much, but at the same time not to be too thick to where you're playing telephone cables.

John Petrucci

#37. I did not want to appear before the world as pathetic, deprssed, and psychologically ill. So I erected a barrier of words and wit around myself, so that nobody could see how needy I really was.

Karen Armstrong