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Quotes About Companionship

He was a moody, distracted young fellow, and it was clear his own mind was more company to him than people were.
~ E.L. Doctorow
Inside me there was a lot of best friendship that no one but Ginger was using.
~ E.L. Konigsburg
Friendship depends on interlocking time, place, and state of mind.
~ E.L. Konigsburg
Did you ever dream you had a friend, Alec? Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can't really happen outside sleep.
~ E.M. Forster
In that little party there was not one who would desert another; yet we were of different countries, different colours, different races, different religions--and one of us was of a different world.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
There was no need for words—at least none that I could imagine, unless Perry desired to pray. And I was quite sure that he would
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
If you don't think it's lonesome wandering all by yourself through savage, unknown Pellucidar, why, just try it, and you will not wonder that I was glad of the company of this first dog
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan was wishing that they might walk on thus forever. If the girl were only a man they might. He longed for a friend who loved the same wild life that he loved. He had learned to crave companionship, but it was his misfortune that most of the men he knew preferred immaculate linen and their clubs to nakedness and the jungle. It was, of course, difficult to understand, yet it was very evident that they did.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
directly to the apartments of his old friend
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
A little child may find companionship in many strange and simple creatures, but to a grown man there must be some semblance of equality in intellect as the basis for agreeable association.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
It was the difference between walking with a stranger and walking with your heartmate. It was the difference between working for duty and working for love.
~ Edith Pattou
And for a long while they stood side by side without speaking, each seeing the other in every line of the landscape.
~ Edith Wharton
I cannot picture what the life of the spirit would have been without him. He found me when my mind and soul were hungry and thirsty, and he fed them till our last hour together. It is such comradeships, made of seeing and dreaming, and thinking and laughing together, that make one feel that for those who have shared them there can be no parting.
~ Edith Wharton
You like so much to be alone?" "Yes; as long as my friends keep me from feeling lonely.
~ Edith Wharton
You like so much to be alone? Yes; as long as my friends keep me from feeling lonely. She
~ Edith Wharton
He could not imagine being bored by Susy -- or trying to escape from her if he were. He could not think of her as an enemy, or even as an accomplice, since accomplices are potential enemies: she was some one with whom, by some unheard-of miracle, joys above the joys of friendship were to be tasted, but who, even through these fleeting ecstasies, remained simply and securely his friend.
~ Edith Wharton
There did I finde mine onely faithfull frend In heauy plight and sad perplexitie; Whereof I sorie, yet my selfe did bend, Him to recomfort with my companie.
~ Edmund Spenser
She was happy I was home, I would come often, I would be company
~ Edna O'Brien
Marriage may not be a perfect state, but it is a protection, especially as we get older. And we are all getting older, my dear.
~ Edward Rutherfurd
Patrick had a fervent desire to be left alone matched only by his fervent desire not to be left alone.
~ Edward St. Aubyn
Priests are the very offspring of God and share in his likeness. Our lineage is from heaven, which makes us hybrids of heaven and earth, though the scales tip in the direction of heaven. We are more connected to heaven than is the rest of creation. We are children priests or, since our Father is the king, we are royal priests who can enjoy his companionship as he actually enjoys ours.
~ Edward T. Welch
Imagine how aloneness could gradually be banished.
~ Edward T. Welch
Are angels my attendants? Then I should walk worthy of ray companionship. Am I so soon to go and dwell with angels? Then I should be pure. Are these feet so soon to tread the courts of heaven? Is this tongue so soon to unite with heavenly beings in praising God? Are these eyes so soon to look on the throne of eternal glory, and on the ascended Redeemer? Then these feet and eyes and lips should be pure and holy; and I should be dead to the world, and live for heaven.
~ Albert Barnes
Don't walk behind me I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
~ Albert Camus