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Quotes About Companionship

I addressed my self as one would speak to a companion with whom one is voyaging to the North Pole.
~ Virginia Woolf
How curiously one is changed by the addition, even at a distance, of a friend. How useful an office one's friends perform when they recall us. Yet how painful to be recalled, to be mitigated, to have one's self adulterated, mixed-up, become part of another.
~ Virginia Woolf
Not that they added perceptibly to the noise of the party. They were not talking (perceptibly) as they stood side by side by the yellow curtains. They would soon be off elsewhere, together; that was all. That was enough.
~ Virginia Woolf
Las personas a quienes más apreciamos no nos convienen cuando estamos enfermos.
~ Virginia Woolf
It was a case of two dogs playing on a hearth-rug; one worrying a paper screw, snarling, snapping, giving a pinch, now and then, at the old dog's ear; the other lying somnolent, blinking at the fire, raising a paw, turning and growling good-temperedly. They had to be together, share with each other, fight with each other, quarrel with each other.
~ Virginia Woolf
Two things alone remained to him in which he now put any trust: dogs and nature.
~ Virginia Woolf
We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others. Human beings do not go hand in hand the whole stretch of the way. There is a virgin forest in each; a snowfield where even the print of birds' feet is unknown. Here we go alone, and like it better so. Always to have sympathy, always to be accompanied, always to be understood would be intolerable
~ Virginia Woolf
o que podemos supor que fazem as mulheres quando buscam a companhia das outras?
~ Virginia Woolf
There are two categories of friendship: those in which people enliven one another and those in which people must be enlivened to be with one another. In the first category one clears the decks to be together; in the second one looks for an empty space in the schedule.
~ Vivian Gornick
There are two categories of friendship: those in which people enliven one another and those in which people must be enlivened to be with one another. In the first category one clears the decks to be together; in the second one looks for an empty space in the schedule. I
~ Vivian Gornick
Very young, I was not able to find myself interesting without intelligent response. I required the company of minds attuned to my own, but no one around gave me back the words I needed to hear.
~ Vivian Gornick
Solitude was corrupting me. I needed company and care.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Who can say what heartbreaks are caused in a dog by our discontinuing a romp
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Take me down to the bar! We'll drink breakfast together!
~ W. C. Fields
Good morning, Revolution: You're the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on
~ Langston Hughes
Easy there, Smurfette.
~ Larissa Ione
Here's how this goes. No Guardians. I don't trust any of them, including you. You can have as much ice cream as you want. I doubt I'll stop ordering you around." He turned his face away and put his lips to her ear. "And you don't get your own bedroom. You sleep here. With me.
~ Larissa Ione
I love you, Cat," he whispered. "I don't know what I did to deserve you, but I hope you know that I'd do it all over again to be with you. Thousands of years of loneliness was worth every second you've been in my life.
~ Larissa Ione
Somewhere overhead, an owl hooted, and a few minutes later, a wolf howled into the growing darkness. Reseph took comfort in the sounds, because they meant he wasn't alone. Sure, the owl might fly over and shit on him, and the wolf might eat him alive, but at least he'd have company for a little while.
~ Larissa Ione
A date is an experience you have with another person that makes you appreciate being alone.
~ Larry David
Get a dog, and always be the person they think you are.
~ Larry Kahaner
We'll work on developing our relationship, our romance," wandered around with him.
~ Larry Kramer
As long as we have books, we are not alone.
~ Laura Bush
The best thing about being a friend, is just being.
~ Laura Dower