Companionship Quotes

Deb Caletti

When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog.

John Joseph Powell

It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive
It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.

Bertrand Russell

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

Nicholas Tucker

Don Quixote could never manage without his patient servant Sancho Panza.

Doug Cooper

There’s a drive in a lost soul - in one that is searching for acceptance, companionship, belonging, whatever you want to call it. The slightest coincidence ignites a spark that one hopes will lead to something meaningful.

Nema Al-Araby

Silence is a great companion when words are devoid of meanings.

Kandi Dougherty

This time around I was so lonely that I was forced to be face to face with myself. Realizing at the end of the day I only have me and I didn't seem to like my own company. I decided to I had to make myself into someone I can live with.

Eda J. LeShan

When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves.

Ashly Lorenzana

People leave imprints on our lives, shaping who we become in much the same way that a symbol is pressed into the page of a book to tell you who it comes from. Dogs, however, leave paw prints on our lives and our souls, which are as unique as fingerprints in every way.

Philip Pullman

There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.

Michael Bassey Johnson

A sincere friend conceals all your deformities, deceives and convince others that you are extremely perfect,
A sincere friend conceals all your deformities, deceives and convince others that you are extremely perfect, the insincere will tell the truth of destruction, leave you open for others to glare and laugh.

Mary Shelley

One as deformed and horrible as myself, could not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species, and have the same defects... with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being...

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

Omar Khayyam

Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness -
And Wilderness is Paradise enow.

Lisa See

I want a marriage of companions - one of shared lives and shared poems,' he murmured. 'If we were husband and wife, we would collect books, read, and drink tea together. As I told you before, I'd want you for what's in here.'
Again he pointed to my heart, but I felt it in a place far lower in my body.

Laura L.

Everyone wants to be wanted and if all people wait for someone else to invest in them, the world will be stuck in an eternal stalemate: nobody moves and nobody wins.

Bryant McGill

Sure. You want to be touched, inspired and made to feel alive. But a relationship is like a bridge where you meet other people half-way. That means if you want to be touched, inspired and made to feel alive, you have to be touching, inspiring and bring the fire of your aliveness to the union of your companionship.

Jeffrey Stepakoff

An apple tree is just like a person. In order to thrive, it needs companionship that's similar to it in some ways, but quite different than others.

Kim Dong Hwa

On a day like this, we women would be completely and utterly happy just to have a man hold our cold hands and massage our aching backs. We'd be so blissfully happy we wouldn't know what to do with ourselves.
Men are never happy unless they're trying to do the impossible. It's why they roam about the world trying to conquer it.

Bryant McGill

People have some really crazy ideas about love, friends and relationships. They have the absurd belief that their friends, children, family, lovers and companions can make them happy.

Lance Armstrong

Anyone who imagines they can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companions. The fact is, no one ascends alone.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Minimise your time with those who make noises instead of speaking what is good for your ears, else, they'll attune you with balderbash. Maximise your time with those who will inject into your ears a soothing sound of wisdom, for they'll set your mind on a sound reasoning path.

Girolamo Cardano

I prefer solitude to companions, since there are so few men who are trustworthy, and almost none truly learned. I do not say this because I demand scholarship in all men - although the sum total of men's learning is small enough; but I question whether we should allow anyone to waste our time. The wasting of time is an abomination.

George Gordon Byron

If I could always read I should never feel the want of company.

Rebecca Raisin

Maybe some people were destined to be alone. But, I reminded myself, you're never alone if you read.

Lemony Snicket

Keep anyone with whom you can read in silence.

Anthony Liccione

Most people give up finding their soul mate, and settle down to just having a flesh mate.

Gabriel García Márquez

The Widow Nazaret never missed her occasional appointments with Florentino Ariza, not even during her busiest times, and it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved, although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love, but without the problems of love.

John Valentine

Sex isn't what I'm after. Sex is just what I can get.

Craig Thompson

And that's my comfort-that someone else was there and experienced the same thing. How else could I know it was real and not merely a dream?

Charlotte Brontë

The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.

Mary Ann Shaffer

I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.

Mary Ann Shaffer

what is the matter with me? Am I too particular? I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.

Shon Mehta

For me, marriage worked differently. As a single person, I never felt totally free. My commitment to my marriage freed me. No lies, no mind games, no judging each other. For me, marriage is pure joyful companionship.

Virginia Woolf

I want someone to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, and its waitings, and its suspicions. After quarrelling and reconciliation I need privacy - to be alone with you, to set this hubbub in order. For I am as neat as a cat in my habits.

Walt Whitman

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough

Jennifer Haigh

I wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval version of myself. . .

Orhan Pamuk

Ka found it very soothing: for the first time in years, he felt part of a family. In spite of the trials and responsibilities of what was called 'family', he saw now the joys of its unyielding togetherness, and was sorry not to have known more of it in his life.

John Green

Books - they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.

Kurt Cobain

I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.

Emily Brontë

Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?

Chris Crutcher

...we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it.

Mikhail Naimy

Often you shall think your road impassable, sombre and companionless. Have will and plod along; and round each curve you shall find a new companion.

Anthony Liccione

A friend is the wax that keeps the flame lit, an enemy is the wind that blows it out.

Azar Nafisi

. . . none of us are as sophisticated in these matters as you think. You know I always feel, with every new person, as if I am starting anew. These things are instinctive. What you need to learn is to lay aside your inhibitions, to go back to your childhood when you played marbles or whatever with boys and never thought anything of it.

Betsy Cornwell

I have to believe it’s right to be a warm voice, a companion if I can be, as soon as ever I find a friend.

Catherynne M. Valente

We are halves, but we make an infinite whole.

Michael Bassey Johnson

The heart becomes warmer when the mild heat of love is coming from two persons. one is in eternal cold and desolation without feeling the friction of love.

Erin Hunter

Toklo raked his companions with a hard glance. “Don’t risk your own safety.”
“I bet you’ll risk yours,” Lusa said, aware once again of how deeply she trusted this bear.
“That’s what I’m here for,” Toklo retorted.

Albert Camus

I cannot stand the company of men. They flatter or they judge. I can stand neither of the two.

Mark Twain

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.

R.A. Salvatore

Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is life.

Alamvusha

The Greatest Companionship you have is your Mind... Your Conscience Mind... The one which talks to you ! The only thing you need to make sure is that; it's positive !

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