Quotes About Companionship

The poor man's heart was big with affections seeking an object; he had never been loved but by a poodle that had died some time since, of which he would talk to me, asking whether I thought the Church would allow masses to be said for the repose of its soul. His dog, said he, had been a good Christian, who for twelve years had accompanied him to church, never barking, listening to the organ without opening his mouth,

And, then, my daughter, my daughter! whose nurse I am, whose companion I must be; so that I can work but a few hours snatched from sleep. Ah, young man! none but the wretched can judge the wretched! Sometimes I think I used to be too stern to misery.

Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it those who have, fear it.

Friends are treasures.

Christ wants to lead men by their love, their personal love to Him, and the confidence of His personal love to them.

Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow -- To Be old friends?

It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.

The burdens that one person alone can shoulder...aren't very big at all, I think. So it's a good thing that they're a "pair." It's good the two of them met.

What keeps this boy going...is the intense feeling of not wanting to be alone.

I could use the company but I can't go through the pain of getting it.

Could that be why Treslove so often found himself alone? Was he protecting himself against the companioned happiness he longed for because he dreaded how he would feel when it was taken from him?

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received .

The greatest gift of life is friendship and I have received it.

But you cant shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love. . .someone to hold on to. . . someone--

Friendship is not an obsolete sentiment. It is as true now as in Aristotle's time that no one would care to live without friends, though he had all other good things. It is still necessary to our life in its largest sense.

I always say now that I'm in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonde.

Friends are God's apology for relations.

Rayner avait sans doute une dizaine d'années de plus que moi. Ce qui ne pose en soi aucun problème. J'entretiens des relations chaleureuses, sans bras cassés, avec quantité de personnes de cet âge.

I sketched a picture of Jean-Claude in my notebook; he saw me, so I showed it to him. He erupted in pleasure. It seemed I'd found a way into his trust and his company—into his world. It was easier to do this with the residents than I had imagined. There were not rules, no prescribed routes: you went with what was available, with the most human thing you could catch on to.

It was great to float on your back in a calm sea and have somebody steer you.

The prices are vertiginous. Carlinhos and Wagner take a booth and they talk and dip their wafers of exquisite beef into the sauces but most of the time they keep companionable silence together, as close men do, and find they have communicated everything. Run

but most of the time they keep companionable silence together, as close men do, and find they have communicated everything.

Time spent in the company of remarkable men is time well spent.