Quotes About Companionship

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

You become like the people you spend the most time with.

People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote.

Few people give themselves time to be friends.

Whoever I hang out with, I want to be able to laugh with. I just want to be able to have a good time... And they have to like my dog. If they don't like my dog, they're out.

I spend so much time living by myself - mostly in hotels - and I pick up cats when I'm feeling particularly lonely.

I've never had an affair with somebody who wasn't at the same time a very good friend of mine, if you see what I mean.

My shadow serves as the friend I crave.

It's great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

The life of a good dog is like the life of a good person, only shorter and more compressed.

Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure, it is work. Each time I look at my diploma, I remember that I am still a student, still learning every day how to be human.

I was good with being alone, always liked it, but there's something about doing a job alone that you've always done with someone else that just doesn't feel right. Maybe it's like making Christmas cookies by yourself. There's nothing wrong with it in theory, but you're really supposed to be doing it with other people, and not just any other people.

Dogs makes messes, it's true, but they clean them up as well.

Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invisible companion. ... I did not read from a sense of superiority, or advancement, or even learning, I read because I loved it more than any activity on earth.

The women I know who are happiest today are the ones who have close female friends. Maybe that's true of men, too, but essentially it's different.

In a world that seems so uncertain, in lives that seem sometimes to ricochet from challenge to upheaval and back again, a dog can be counted on in a way that's true of little else.

The worst thing about losing a friend is that you lose all the things you shared with that person

Whilst I was young I lived upon my mother's milk, as I could not eat grass. In the daytime I ran by her side, and at night I lay down close by her. When it was hot we used to stand by the pond in the shade of the trees, and when it was cold, we had a nice warm shed near the plantation.

he thought people did not value their animals half enough, nor make friends of them as they ought to do

He is very fond of me, almost too fond. I could do with less caressing and more rationality. I should like to be less of a pet and more of a friend, if I might choose; but I won't complain of that: I am only afraid his affection loses in depth where it gains in ardour. I sometimes liken it to a fire of dry twigs and branches compared with one of solid coal, very bright and hot; but if it should burn itself out and leave nothing but ashes behind.

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.

This paper will serve instead of a confidential friend into whose ear I might pour forth the overflowings of my heart. It will not sympathize with my distresses, but then, it will not laugh at them, and, if I keep it close, it cannot tell again; so it is, perhaps, the best friend I could have for the purpose.

I shall expect my husband to have no pleasures but what he shares with me; and if his greatest pleasure of all is not the enjoyment of my company - why - it will be the worse for him - that's all.' 'If such are your expectations of matrimony, Esther, you must, indeed, be careful whom you marry - or rather, you must avoid it altogether.