Storytelling Quote by Milan Kundera

“He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split them in two, and now all the halves wander the world over…

— Milan Kundera

“There’s a Greek legend—no, it’s in something Plato wrote—about how true lovers are really two halves of the same person. It says that people…

— Nancy Garden

“In Greek mythology, Gods divide a human soil into two and send them world apart, and thus, each human is doomed to spend eternity…

— Daniel Gottlieb

“It has been said that in ancient times there was only one gender; in that blissful state, humankind existed until, as punishment, the gods…

— Justin Cronin

“Plato claimed that we were all joined to someone else once, we were humans with four arms and four legs, and a head of…

— Sarah Crossan

“Aristophanes says we were all four-legged creatures to start, some the same sex, but most half man and half woman. Zeus was afraid us…

— Scott Turow

“She married a man who soon left her; that man became a myth; and then that myth returned home and proved to be just…

— Nelson Mandela

“The boundaries between us had been breached for good, we gave a new meaning t the notion that man and wife were one flesh.…

— Lorna Sage

“Once these two had been joined together in love, or something like love; they had made two babies, and yet, only fifteen years later,…

— Orson Scott Card

“While I generally find that great myths are great precisely because they represent and embody great universal truths (and will explore several such myths…

— M. Scott Peck

“I should have learned my lesson from Greek myths, really. It so doesn't pay to fall in love with a god. It’s either you…

— Marian Tee

“According to Aristophanes in Plato's The Banquet, in the ancient world of legend there were three types of people. In ancient times people weren't…

— Haruki Murakami