Quotes About Connection

The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole.

Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.

Human nature was originally one and we were a whole, and the pursuit of the whole is called love.

According to Greek mythology, humans were orginally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them in two seperate beings, condeming them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.

Do you desire to be wholly one; always day and night in one another's company? For if this is what you desire, I am ready to melt and fuse you together, so that being two you shall become one, and while you live a common life as if you were a single man, and after your death in the world below still be one departed soul, instead of two....

When I kiss Agathon my soul is on my lips, where it comes, poor thing, hoping to cross over.

For this, he said, is the great error of our day in the treatment of the human body, that physicians separate the soul from the body.

The word friend is common, the fact is rare.

Friends have all things in common.

Yet whenever someone comes upon his very own half then they are wondrously struck with affection and intimacy and love, and are practically unwilling to be separated from one another even for a short time. And it is they who stay together for life, and who wouldn't be able to say what they want to get for themselves from one another.

Caring about the happiness of others, we find our own.

The perfect state is one where men weep and rejoice over the same things.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.

You learn more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.

La peor prisión es un corazón cerrado

And so, from such early times human beings have had Love for one another inborn in them -- Love, reassembler of our ancient nature, who tries to make one out of two and to heal human nature.

La amistad del amante no brota del buen sentido, sino como las ganas de comer, del ansia de saciarse.

lo semejante se une siempre a su semejante.

For let me tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.

There neither is nor ever will be a treatise of mine on the subject. For it does not admit of exposition like other branches of knowledge; but after much converse about the matter itself and a life lived together, suddenly a light, as it were, is kindled in one soul by a flame that leaps to it from another, and thereafter sustains itself.

I dare say that you remember, and therefore I need not remind you, that a lover, if he is worthy of the name, ought to show his love, not to some one part of that which he loves, but to the whole.

Pour Aristophane, Éros est le seul dieu qui puisse nous permettre de réaliser ce à quoi tend tout être humain : la réunion avec la moitié de lui-même dont il a été séparé par Zeus.

As I kissed Agathon my soul swelled to my lips, where it hangs, pitiful, hoping to leap across.