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Platonic Quotes

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.

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
Tragedy, Needs, Platonic Love
Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.38, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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

Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Third Person, Platonic Friendship, Thirds
"The Friends of Voltaire". Book by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, 1906.

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

Oscar Wilde
Platonic Love, Before I Met You, Mets
Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

Theres different kinds of love, and Id never experienced that kind of totally platonic love. All the love Ive experienced has always been a kind of deal, and now, as I get older, I realise that theres this other love out there.

Tracey Emin
Different, Kind, Platonic Love

She had a body that even I coveted in a strictly Platonic sense.

C.E. Murphy
Body, Platonic
C.E. Murphy (2009). “Walking Dead”, p.9, Harlequin

Platonic love is platonic nonsense.

Samuel Richardson
Love, Nonsense, Platonic
Samuel Richardson, Pamela (fict.name.) (1801). “Pamela: or, Virtue rewarded [by S. Richardson]. [Another]”, p.200

As a filmmaker I cannot make anything beautiful. I'm Platonic in that sense.

Michael Glawogger
Beautiful, Filmmaker, Platonic
Source: www.motherjones.com

For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not.

Learned Hand
Would Be, Guardian, Platonic
"The Bill of Rights". Book by Learned Hand, p. 73, 1958.

I have platonic relationships with my guy friends. There's some friends that I've kissed or whatever, but it was always just once.

Aly Michalka
Guy, Guy Friend, Platonic Relationship
Pinstripe Magazine Interview, February 07, 2011.

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