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Quotes About Companionship

Other things my best friend said to me: That two years was but a short span.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
She'd left me her husband, who didn't expect much from me. He'd had his great love. And now he was willing, determined even, to be amused, to belly laugh at the slightest provocation, to appreciate heart-shaped pieces of toast as tokens of my affection.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
Jamás se te puede privar de tu perfecta santidad porque su Fuente va contigo dondequiera que tú vas. 2 Jamás puedes sufrir porque la Fuente de toda dicha va contigo dondequiera que tú vas. 3 Jamás puedes estar solo porque la Fuente de toda vida va contigo dondequiera que tú vas. 4 Nada puede destruir tu paz mental porque Dios va contigo dondequiera que tú vas.
~ Helen Schucman
Endurance is the free companion of Sorrow, and Patience her master.
~ HELENA PETROVNA BLAVATSKY
My problem was that by this time the Colonel and I had already had thirty straight hours of Togetherness and I'm not equipped for it, not even with the best friend I have on earth, which he isn't.
~ Helene Hanff
This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!
~ Henny Youngman
On peut être libre à plusieurs, j'ai dit. Moi, j'ai connu des solitudes qui ressemblaient vachement à des prisons.
~ Henri Loevenbruck
It is preferable not to travel with a dead man.
~ Henri Michaux
Life is short and we never have enough time for the hearts of those who travel the way with us. O, be swift to love!
~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel
A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was an avatar. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.
~ Henry Adams
Life is so short, So Fast The Lone Hours Fly, We Ought To Be Together, You and I
~ Henry Alford
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait until the other is ready.
~ Henry David Thoreau
My friend is one who takes me for what I am.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
~ Henry David Thoreau
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
~ Henry David Thoreau
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till the other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
~ Henry David Thoreau
What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
~ Henry David Thoreau
together they breakfasted on 'Venison and Chockalatte'
~ Henry Hitchings
Johnson's decision to employ these particular men was partly motivated by charity. He rotated them as his needs (or theirs) dictated, and offered accommodation to those who could not afford lodgings elsewhere. The amanuenses were his servants, but also his companions—dogsbodies with the status of intimates, hirelings who doubled as friends. Their presence in the background is a reminder
~ Henry Hitchings
You can never know where I am or what I am, But I am good company to you nonetheless, And really do regret I broke your inkwell." (From Meow of Myself, from LEAVES OF CATNIP )
~ Henry N. Beard