Quotes About Companionship

Men and women can be friends, and it can just be friendly.

When I met with Anna Chancellor, I knew she was a kindred spirit. We got one another.

I have never met anybody who likes 'The Detectorists' that I don't like.

Lou and I met while we were in high school in our senior year. We were in many of the same classes together and quite a few times we went over to his house to hang out.

Mike Greenberg and I are really good friends.

A girl's got to be fun. It's the one bit of advice I always give to friends of mine who are thinking of getting married.

If you live to be 1000 years old, I hope I live to be 1000 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.

I spent pretty much every minute of my life with my mom.

Wir können uns einreden, dass wir mit einem Buch nicht allein sind, wie wir uns einreden können, dass wir mit einem Menschen nicht allein sind.

On the one hand we can't be alone, people like us; on the other we can't stand company. We can't stand male company, which bores us to death, or female company either. I gave up male company for years because it's totally unprofitable, and female company gets on my nerves in no time.

Sometimes we need someone, sometimes no one, and sometimes we need someone and no one.

They spoke very little of their mutual feelings: pretty phrases and warm attentions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.

To find themselves utterly alone at night where company is desirable and expected makes some people fearful; but a case more trying by far to the nerves is to discover some mysterious companionship when intuition, sensation, memory, analogy, testimony, probability, induction--every kind of evidence in the logician's list--have united to persuade consciousness that it is quite alone.

With Sue as companion he could have renounced his ambitions with a smile. Without her it was inevitable that the reaction from the long strain to which he had subjected himself should affect him disastrously.

He walked from one window to another and became aware that the most irksome of solitudes is not the solitude of remoteness, but that which is just outside desirable company.

To find themselves utterly alone at night where company is desirable and expected makes some people fearful; but a case more trying by far to the nerves is to discover some mysterious companionship when intuition, sensation, memory, analogy, testimony, probability, induction—every kind of evidence in the logician's list—have united to persuade consciousness that it is quite in isolation. Farmer

In heaven she will probably sit between the Heloises and the Cleopatras.

M]en have no pleasure, (but on the contrary a great deal of grief) in keeping company, where there is no power to over-awe them all.

Pieter Peeperkorn will now regale himself with a schnapps.

I get an odd, intimate, and amusing sensation from having him sit on my foot and warm it with the blood-heat of his body. A pervasive feeling of sympathy and good cheer fills me, as almost invariably when in his company and looking at things from his angle.

In the end, it's the reality of personal realtionships that save everything.

The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround himself with people. But the man who learns, in solitude and recollection, to be at peace with his own loneliness, and to prefer its reality to the illusion of merely natural companionship, comes to know the invisible companionship of God

Great though books may be, friends though they may be to us, they are no substitute for persons, they are only means of contact with great persons...

L'amore è il nostro vero destino. Non troviamo il significato della vita da soli, lo troviamo assieme a qualcun altro.