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Quotes About Companionship

It's funny how dogs and cats know the insides of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?
~ Eleanor H. Porter
The more I see of men," she grumbled in one, "the more I love dogs."50
~ Eleanor Herman
Alex looks around at Heph, at Diodotus, at handsome Telekles and round-faced Phrixos
~ Eleanor Herman
We were twelve years old, but we walked along the hot streets of the neighborhood, amid the dust and flies that the occasional old trucks stirred up as they passed, like two old ladies taking the measure of lives of disappointment, clinging tightly to each other. No one understood us, only we two—I thought—understood one another.
~ Elena Ferrante
Era così: se eravamo insieme, non c'era critica che ci toccasse davvero, anzi diventavamo superbi, nient'altro aveva senso se non le nostre opinioni. Correvamo a cena, al cibo buono, al vino, al sesso. Volevamo soltanto afferrarci e stringerci.
~ Elena Ferrante
Diego, estoy sola. - Frida Kahlo en su diario, 1955. Diego, ya no estoy sola. - Frida Kahlo, 3 días después. Mundo, estoy solo. - México, 19 de septiembre de 1985. Mundo, ya no estoy solo. - México, 21 de septiembre de 1985.
~ Elena Poniatowska
Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.
~ Elie Wiesel
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
~ Elie Wiesel
I'm not happy," Rósza said. "Why not?" "I don't know." "Are you worried about school?" "No." "Then why?" "Because I'm alone." I felt a wave of exasperation and despair. Was that what all of life was going to be like - you had to be sad when you didn't have a boyfriend?
~ Elif Batuman
I thought about how wonderful it would be to walk around with him until the following morning. I really felt that way, even though he stressed me out so much, and all we ever did was mishear each other and say "What?" all the time.
~ Elif Batuman
The hermit is he who needs a friend, and in the absence of a community has befriended himself.
~ Anthony Marais
I have never walked down Fifth Avenue alone without thinking of money. I have never walked there with a companion without talking of it.
~ Anthony Trollope
One's own character inevitably comes to resemble the things one spends most of one's day with.
~ Antiphon
Bøkene er alltid tilgjengelige følgesvenner. Alderdom, ensomhet, lediggang, kjedsomhet, smerte og uro: Det finnes ikke den hverdagslige plage som bøkene ikke kan lindre, såfremt plagene ikke er for sterke. Bøkene mildner bekymringene og tilbyr trøst og støtte.
~ Antoine Compagnon
Where are the people?" resumed the little prince at last. It's a little lonely in the desert…" It is lonely when you're among people, too," said the snake.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Love has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
~ Anton Chekhov
People who live alone always have something on their minds that they would willingly share.
~ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
~ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Alegremente" es la palabra de la casa. Estáis envenenados de alegría. Y no era eso lo que pensaba yo encontrar aquí. Creí que encontraría... a mis verdaderos compañeros, no a unos ilusos».
~ Antonio Buero Vallejo
I. Don't trace out your profile-- forget your side view-- all that is outer stuff. II. Look for your other half who walks always next to you and tends to be who you aren't.
~ Antonio Machado
I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell; I would not go alone
~ Antonio Porchia