Quotes About Companionship

I needed the company of another failure to make my own bearable.

FOLK SAYING: "Better to be in Gehenna with a wise man than in Gan Eden [Paradise] with a fool.

Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.

What exactly were the duties of an imaginary friend? Pretty much just to make it easier for the child to fit into the world without feeling too alone or scared. Hours? Whatever it took. Benefits? The incredibly pure love between a kid and an imaginary friend. It didn't get better than that. Where did he fit in the great cosmic plan? Well, no one had ever told him.

And with that, he was gone, leaving me alone. Only I wasn't alone. In fact, I knew I would never be alone again.

Why'd you call, boy? What did you want from me? The company of a friend, I think. Always a cheap treat.

He had his life—it was not worth much—not like a life that, though ended, had truly been something. If I had had courage, he thought, if I had had faith. We preserve ourselves as if that were important, and always at the expense of others. We hoard ourselves. We succeed if they fail, we are wise if they are foolish, and we go onward, clutching, until there is no one—we are left with no companion save God. In whom we do not believe. Who we know does not exist.

We preserve ourselves as if that were important, and always at the expense of others. We hoard ourselves. We succeed if they fail, we are wise if they are foolish, and we go onward, clutching, until there is no one—we are left with no companion save God. In

We preserve ourselves as if that were important, and always at the expense of others. We hoard ourselves. We succeed if they fail, we are wise if they are foolish, and we go onward, clutching, until there is no one—we are left with no companion save God. In whom we do not believe. Who we know does not exist.

Laugh and the world laughs with you, love and you love alone.

A friend is someone you share the path with. ~ African Proverb

Friendship is really the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Yes, I found myself, by insensible degrees, sincerely fond of her; and the happiest hours of my life were what I spent with her.

Sitting with her on Sunday evening — a wet Sunday evening — the very time of all others when if a friend is at hand the heart must be opened, and every thing told…

I often think, she said, that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems to forlorn without them.

En compañía de un libro uno se aburre mucho menos.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

You must be the best judge of your own happiness. If you prefer Mr. Martin to every other person; if you think him the most agreeable man you have ever been in company with, why should you hesitate?

She talked to her, listened to her, read to her; and the tranquillity of such evenings, her perfect security in such a tête-à-tête from any sound of unkindness, was unspeakably welcome to a mind which had seldom known a pause in its alarms or embarrassments.

I think we are a great deal better employed, sitting comfortably here among ourselves, and doing nothing.

no man can be a good judge of the comforts a woman feels in the society of one of her own sex […]

my idea of good company.. is the company of clever, well-informed people. who have a great deal of conversation.

She had been a friend and companion such as few possessed: intelligent, well-informed, useful, gentle, knowing all the ways of the family, interested in all its concerns, and peculiarly interested in herself, in every pleasure, every scheme of hers--one to whom she could speak every thought as it arose, and who had such an affection for her as could never find fault.

I am afraid I interrupt your solitary ramble, my dear sister,' said he, as he joined her. 'You certainly do,' she replied with a smile; 'but it does not follow that the interruption must be unwelcome.