Quotes About Companionship

Dwindling energy is one of the most boring things about being old. From time to time you get a day when it seems to be restored, and you can't help feeling that you are 'back to normal', but it never lasts. You just have to resign yourself to doing less--or rather, taking more breaks than you used to in whatever you are doing. In my case I fear that what I most often do less of is my duty towards my companion rather than indulgence of my private inclinations.

Don't be afraid. There's the two of us now.

In his book The Four Loves, Lewis describes the pleasure of working with one's colleagues side by side. In fact, he builds his whole theory of friendship upon this very idea: "You will not find the warrior, the poet, the philosopher or the Christian by staring in his eyes as if he were your mistress: better fight beside him, read with him, argue with him, pray with him.

You will not find the warrior, the poet, the philosopher or the Christian by staring in his eyes as if he were your mistress: better fight beside him, read with him, argue with him, pray with him.

This whole time, I wasn't waiting for something in particular. Just someone who wanted me. Not sex. But me.

SOME DAYS DESERVED to be drowned at birth and everyone sent back to bed with a hot brandy, a box of chocolates, and a warm, energetic companion.

Some days, Lucy thought, deserved to be drowned at birth and everyone sent back to bed with a hot brandy, a box of chocolates, and a warm, energetic companion.

But I felt . . . I still feel . . . . lucky I had the chance to know you.' She puts her arm around my shoulders, very gently, and I can tell she thinks of me as an old lady who needs to be handled with care. She should see me do the shoulder stand in my yoga class.

For had it been an adversary who taunted me, then I could have borne it; or had it been an enemy who vaunted himself against me, then I could have hidden from him. But it was you, a man after my own heart, my companion, my own familiar friend.

I travel in so many different ways I travel high, I rough it... it all depends on who I travel with.

There's a saying. If you want someone to love you forever, buy a dog, feed it and keep it around.

C'est bon d'avoir eu un copain. [...] On a toujours l'espoir qu'on restera copains, et que les moments passés ensemble ne seront pas effacés par de nouveaux souvenirs avec un autre.

Distant or near, in joy or in sorrow, each in the other sees his true helper to brotherly freedom.

One who wants fellowship without solitude plunges into the void of words and feelings, and one who seeks solitude without fellowship perishes in the abyss of vanity, self-infatuation, and despair.

Frequenting evil friends is bound to make your own behavior evil; People of Tingri, abandon any friendships that are negative. – Padampa Sangye

didn't know one another's names or ages or reasons for being there, and that was fine, because silence isn't the same when it's shared. Its sad and lonely sides are shunted off.

Silence isn't the same when it's shared.

Un po' più in là della tua solitudine, c'è la persona che ami

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

In the resurrection, when we come up looking backward at each other, I shall know you only of all that company.

A prijatelji su rod. Rod koji ?ovek po duši izabira.

We've all got trashy friends, but we should choose our trashy friends with more care.

Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.

good friends improve the quality of my life.