Quotes About Companionship

I enjoy intellectual companionship.

There's a particular kind of single woman whose relationship with her dog has a level of intensity and affection that may be both the cause and the result of her singleness. For a long time, I was that woman.

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.

Being places alone makes you think. Being there with someone makes you hounded by details, like what time the other person wants to leave; details that drain energy when you are trying to discover the core of an event. Being there with William put a damper on glorious possibilities. But I'd given up on those, which was why, I suppose, I went so many places with William.

What shall we drink?" she asked, when we sat down in the restaurant. We drank the same thing when we were together for some reason, maybe symmetry.

I've been in fast company, as they call it

We acquire friends and we make enemies, but our sisters come with the territory.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper...

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

Never judge people based on their company. Take Judas, for example; he had irreprochable friends!

I lived in my head most of the time— a lonely and messed up place —and suddenly there was a higher force called Allah I could lean on. A companion, who'd travel with me this road less trodden... My life. Islam means surrendering yourself to God.

I think what makes our marriage work amid all the glare is that my husband is my best friend. He inspires everything in my life and enables me to do the best that I can. I want to hang out with him more than anyone.

Beast did not know how to help Jane.

conviviality

I don't know where you're going but do you got room for one more troubled soul?

O, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap-dogs; but let matrimony alone. It's the hardest way on earth to getting a living.

I took Miss Stanwyck home and had a great time listening to her dish the party and everyone there. We went in for a nightcap, and I ended up spending the night. We enjoyed each other's company to the fullest.

There was no other wanderer on that road, yet I was not alone, for his tracks went with me, each pawprint as familiar as the print of my own hand. I followed them, and I knew each thing that he had done, each move that he had made, each thought that had been his; for so it is with two who live one life together.

Si deseas cruzar este mundo llevando a otra persona del brazo, tendrás que escucharla hasta el fin.

We must teach ourselves to value flux, but more than that, we must teach ourselves to value and attend to friends, not as way-stations between lovers or diversions from the real business of pairing up and marriage, but as relationships of first consequence in their own right.

My old man used to say you could be dollar-poor but emotionally rich if you had one good friend.

Que esto me sirva para adornarme con tu amistad... pues sí, tu amistad siempre me adornó