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Quotes About Companionship

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~ Ernest Cline
She grinned. "Don't you want to build a huge interstellar spaceship, load it full of videogames, junk food, and comfy couches, and then get the hell out of here?" "I'm up for that, too," I said. "if it means I get to spend the rest of my life with you.
~ Ernest Cline
Not Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and Astor together could have raised money enough to buy a quarter share in my little dog.
~ Ernest Thompson Seton
Next day on returning I found him dead in the snow with his head on the sill of the door—the door of his puppyhood's days; my dog to the last in his heart of hearts—it was my help he sought, and vainly sought, in the hour of his bitter extremity.
~ Ernest Thompson Seton
Die Nähe der Katze ist gut für den Menschen von ruhiger, betrachtender Lebensart. Dem musischen Menschen leistet die Katze besser Gesellschaft als der Hund. Sie stört die Gedanken, Traüme, Phantasien nicht. Sie ist ihnen sogar günstig durch eine sphinxhafte Ausstrahlung – sie sind dämonenfeindlich. Die Katze hängt nicht an der Person; sie ist treu wie der Hund. Die Katze ist nicht erwähnt in der Bibel.GES. WERKE. Band 11. 422.
~ Ernst Junger
In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.
~ Ernst Mayr
Me and Tom used to get along first-rate concerning everything. Me and him never had no difficulties like I was always having with my other children. They used to throw rocks at me and hit me over the head with sticks, but Tom never did. Tom was always a first-rate boy when I knowed him.
~ Erskine Caldwell
Tell me who you walk with, and I'll tell you who you are.
~ Esmeralda Santiago
Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.
~ Esther M. Clark
Cats do not walk with people. We just sometimes happen to be going the same way.
~ Esther M. Friesner
You're safe. Thank the gods." Milo appeared at my side, dripping wet, his face scratched and battered. With a shamefaced smile he added, "I fell off the ship." " Another one who won't obey me?" Iolaus growled.
~ Esther M. Friesner
Being brave doesn't mean always having to fight alone.
~ Esther M. Friesner
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
~ Ethel Barrymore
Solitude seems to oppress me. And so does the company of other people.
~ Eugene Ionesco
Neither explaining suffering nor offering a program for the elimination of suffering, Lamentations keeps company with the extensive biblical witness that gives dignity to suffering by insisting that God enters our suffering and is companion to our suffering.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people look back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.
~ Eugene Kennedy
It is easier to find guides, someone to tell you what to do, than someone to be with you in a discerning, prayerful companionship as you work it out yourself. This is what spiritual direction is.
~ Eugene Peterson
I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief
~ Euripides
It is a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be loved by many friends.
~ Euripides
Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
~ Euripides
Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.
~ Euripides
Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.
~ Euripides
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
~ Euripides
I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief
~ Euripides