Quotes About Companionship

A bore is someone who takes away my solitude and doesn't give me companionship in return

One chair for solitude, two for friendship, and three for society.

But never mind; faint heart never won true Friend. O Friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my Friend I may be yours.

What if we feel a yearning to which no breast answers? I walk alone. My heart is full. Feelings impede the current of my thoughts. I knock on the earth for my friend. I expect to meet him at every turn; but no friend appears, and perhaps none is dreaming of me.

Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows.

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Acho saudável ficar sozinho a maior parte do tempo. Ter companhia, mesmo a melhor delas, logo cansa e desgasta

the man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off.

I never found the companion that was so companionable than solitude.

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy

Le mieux que je puisse faire pour mon ami est d'être son ami.

To come down to my own experience, my companion and I, for I sometimes have a companion, take pleasure in fancying ourselves knights of a new, or rather an old, order—not Equestrians or Chevaliers, not Ritters or Riders, but Walkers, a still more ancient and honorable class, I trust.

one should try to be one's own best friend and to give one's self, in this manner, distinguished company.

I'll watch with you.

Life might prove difficult—was evidently going to; but meanwhile they had each other, and that was everything.

Life had met him so, half-way, and had turned round so to walk with him, placing a hand in his arm and fondly leaving him to choose the pace.

Heaven deliver me from my friends!

Strether had never smoked, and he felt as if he flaunted at his friend that this had been only because of a reason. The reason, it now began to appear even to himself, was that he had never had a lady to smoke with.

If you could see none but the people I like, my dear, you'd have a very small society.

A woman's husband, you know, is supposed to be her second self; (Chapter 12)

Then, as on the night before, we lay down together and I proved how great our friendship had become.

What most people fear when they think of old age is the inability to make new friends. If one ever had the faculty of making friends one never loses it however old one grows. Next to love friendship, in my opinion, is the most valuable thing life has to offer.

No, we are never alone. But one has to live apart to know it for the truth.

She stood there waiting for me to approach, as though absolutely certain that I would take her by the arm and continue strolling down the avenue.