Quotes About Companionship

I crawled through space and time, a worm inching through a labyrinth built by the dreams of a mad god. This I learned, meatbag, this and nothing more: when air, food, and shelter are assured, only two things matter. Work and companionship. To be alone and without purpose is to be the living dead.

As the others paired off he turned to face her. Can't leave me partnerless, he said. She pulled a face, grabbed the bowl and stood up.Forgot my little speech earlier, have you, Jayan?Not if you were the last man in Kyralia.

But right now it's a friend's love.

We have more in common than I thought, he mused wryly. He liked the idea that, if either of them ever fell from grace, the other might be there to offer support. It's always easier to become friends with someone you have something in common with. I just hope it doesn't take some socially disastrous fall before she'll consider the possibility I might be a friend.

Boys enjoy the misery of their companions, at least village boys in that day did, and in later life I have found that all adults are not free from the peculiarity.

Con la crisis del concepto de comunidad surge un individualismo desenfrenado, en el que nadie es ya compañero de camino de nadie, sino antagonista del que hay que guardarse.

P?i, unde s? m? g?siÈ›i? Fac parte dintr-o generaÈ›ie pierdut? È™i m? reg?sesc numai când asist, în tov?r??ia altora, la singur?tatea semenilor mei.

Friendship is a delightful thing when you have had the good judgment to choose the right friends.

The two of them heartened each other, making bovine life a bit more tolerable.

Montesquieu had said that to love reading was to exchange hours of boredom for hours of delight; Laharpe had said that a book is a friend that never deceives.

The ascetics give it a bad name," he said, "but the fact is that it is one of the most delicate and gracious of the arts, and its delights penetrate every fiber of the being and become the basis of sympathy and understanding, companionship and co-operation, loyalty and devotion. Love is like the fire under the boilers, which gives power to all the machinery. Without it, life is a film in black and white; with it, the picture glows with all the colors of the rainbow.

They'd all known each other long enough to forgive each other's faults, to accept each other's politics and to say what would be unsayable in any other company.

We weren't joined at the hip but there was never a day apart that we wouldn't rather have spent in each other's company.

A wife, he knew, was a huge armful of responsibility, and responsibility was the disease in man. But he was lonely, and twice as lonely after leaving the woman by the graves.

gli scossoni della vita aiutano a capire che la vicinanza quotidiana e un'abitudine vecchia di anni sono quanto di significativo e poetico – nel senso autentico e sommo del termine – tiene insieme due persone che hanno camminato l'una accanto all'altra dalla giovinezza ai capelli bianchi.

The body needs food, but the mind needs people

They drank one another's health like men who meet to part upon the dark paths of a great adventure.

He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends

He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.

The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.

A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children.

He loved books, those undemanding but faithful friends.

These two beings, who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching a love, and who had lived so long for each other, were now suffering beside one another and through one another; without speaking of it, without harsh feeling, and smiling all the while.

Books are cold but sure friends.