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Quotes About Companionship

Proverbs 18:22 says, "He who finds a wife finds a good thing.
~ James MacDonald
Plain and simple, men need community with other men. Loving, you-before-me, dedicated relationship. If you have never had it, you don't really get it yet, and if you had that community and lost it, you know the cavity it leaves in your soul until you discover it again.
~ James MacDonald
Not only do I have good friends, but I also have friends who are good.
~ James Martin
Sometimes, when we feel the greatest need to be alone, it's the moment we should most welcome the company of others.
~ James Maxey
It was hard to stay miserable with Mike around. But I'd try.
~ James Preller
For imagine having somebody beside you day and night loving you and forgiving you and petting you forever and ever, that must be a better description of hell than being put into a boiling lake or cauldron of ice that burnt your black.
~ James Purdy
Our triumphs seem hollow unless we have friends to share them, and our failures are made bearable by their understanding.
~ James Rachels
He climbed through the vast stillness, alone...and yet somehow, he knew, no longer alone. For now his two fathers climbed with him.
~ James Ramsey Ullman
You are not alone. You are instead lonely. There is loneliness as can exist only in the midst of numbers and numbers of people who don't know you, who don't care about you, who won't let you care about them.
~ James S. Kunen
Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
~ James Thurber
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
~ James Thurber
Love is what you've been through with somebody
~ James Thurber
Ride close together. Remember laughter. You'll need it even in the blessed isles of Ever After.
~ James Thurber
passed—Snoopy, Ronald McDonald
~ Donna Tartt
It could have been a foxhole in the Somme being shelled by the Germans and all that mattered was her next to me in the dark, her arm beside mine.
~ Donna Tartt
Yet, however dissimilar their upbringings, books became for both Lincoln and Roosevelt "the greatest of companions." Every day for the rest of their lives, both men set aside time for reading, snatching moments while waiting for meals, between visitors, or lying in bed before sleep.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
They would carry their books to the woods and read aloud to one another. At picnic lunches near Cooper's Bluff, they recited their favorite poems. "In the early days," Fanny recalled, "we all delighted in Longfellow and Mrs. Browning and Owen Meredith." Later, they turned to Swinburne, Kipling, Shelley, and Shakespeare. The Roosevelts
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
Onunla [kedimle] beraber olmak için oturuyorum, bu kendimi yavaÅŸlatmam, telaÅŸ ve endiÅŸeleri defetmem anlam?na geliyor. Bunu yap?nca -onun da keyifli olmas?, bir yerinin aÄŸr?mamas? veya huzursuz olmamamas? gerek - ona eriÅŸmek isteÄŸimin fark?nda olduÄŸunu bana incelikle belli ediyor. Kediye eriÅŸmek, kedinin özüne, onun en iyi yönlerine insan ve kedi, bizi neler ay?r?yorsa onlar? aÅŸmaya çal???yoruz.
~ Doris Lessing
A cat needs a place as much as it needs a person to make its own.
~ Doris Lessing
But not to our Muffin.
~ Dorothy B. Hughes
So she was on her own, Kate thought, and instilled all the friendly helpfulness she could into her next question. "Excuse me, but are you the bad company young Mr. Scott has got into?
~ Dorothy Dunnett
He was not a figment of daydream or of fantasy. He was the quick-witted man who had raced with her; the man whose strong wrists had pulled her from trouble; whose laughter recognized, more than his own, her buffoonery; whose voice had whispered, sung, exclaimed or cursed, with equal felicity, carefree as birdsong on top of their striving. Whose essence, stripped by necessity was, it now seemed, warm and joyous and of great generosity.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
I can live alone, but it is better to have someone else to concern oneself with; to help and be helped by. There is nothing so strong as a family.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Marthe said dryly, 'Philippa wishes only to say thank you, and so also do I. They say in Italy, don't they, that the boat will sink that carries neither monk, nor student, nor whore.… How good that we have Mr Blyth.' 'How good that we have Mlle Marthe,' Lymond replied. His clothes, freshly changed, were impeccable and his brushed yellow hair, free of sand, was lit guinea-gold by the gleam of the lamps. 'Of her fellow men so charming a student.
~ Dorothy Dunnett