Companionship Quotes

When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accep...

Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antido...

Only marriage combines all three forms of companionship - spouse is family, best friend, and permane...

I had kissed my share of men, particularly during the war years, when flirtation and instant romance...

Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that lonelines...

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-br...

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for go live with a car battery.

The Widow Nazaret never missed her occasional appointments with Florentino Ariza, not even during he...

He dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to ...

Someone asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that ...

I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.

The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.

The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's rel...

Sitting on the porch alone, listening to them fixing supper, he felt again the indignation he had fe...

Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also...

Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.

You could hold me and I could hold you. And it would be so peaceful. Completely peaceful. Like the f...

Solitude sometimes is best society.

A number of years ago I had some experience with being alone. For two succeeding years I was alone e...

We are so fond of each other because our ailments are the same.

Marrying for love may be a bit risky but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.

Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford as smart as Henry Kissinger as noble ...

I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake o...

Anyone who imagines they can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companion...

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First let her think she...

They say love is blind . . . and marriage is an insritution. Well I'm nor ready for an instirurion ...

Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.

A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night

Love seems the swiftest but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perf...

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.

Man was born for society. However little He may be attached to the World, He never can wholly forget...

Being apart was wrong. Simply lying side by side did more for a relationship than words. A warm bed,...

Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.

The bravest thing that men do is love women.

[Being in love] is something like poetry. Certainly you can analyze it and expound its various sens...

One of the things my life has taught me is how important it is to try to say "I love you" in ways t...

The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I re...

Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and ThouBeside me sin...

Ka found it very soothing: for the first time in years, he felt part of a family. In spite of the tr...

So that you will hear memy wordssometimes grow thinas the tracks of the gulls on the beaches.Necklac...

The first duty of love is to listen.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness a tender look which becomes a habit.

There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willi...

Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is li...

Interior of the hand. Sole that has come to walkonly on feelings. That faces upwardand in its mirror...

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bo...

When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.

To see her is to love her And love but her forever For Nature made her what she is And never made...

Looking back few friends had webut I've got him and he's got me.And when the golden minute comeswhen...

Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons longing as all individuals do to overcome t...

Whenever you want to marry someone go have lunch with his ex-wife.

An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and use...

I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence o...

How we need that security. How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To re...

How we need another soul to cling to.

Once [a cat] has given its love, what absolute confidence, what fidelity of affection! It will make ...

We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love.

I was with you at the beginning of your journey. It is right that I should follow you to its end.

I use your love as a man burns a candle, burns it away, to light his steps.

I want someone to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, and i...

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her . . . but she can never forgive him for the sacri...

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough

WE two boys together clinging,One the other never leaving,Up and down the roads going, North and Sou...

What is there in the vale of life Half so delightful as a wife When Friendship love and peace combi...

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

I sold my memoirs of my love life to Parker Brothers and they are going to make a game out of it.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have the older she gets the more interested he is...

My flute, M. Poirot, is my oldest companion. When everything else fails, music remains.

I cannot stand the company of men. They flatter or they judge. I can stand neither of the two.

So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it and sometimes three.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Already, I seemed to feel my intellect deteriorating, my heart petrifying, my soul contracting; and ...

How odd it is that we so often weep for each other’s distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own...

. . . because we cannot conceive that as we grow up our own minds will become so enlarged and elevat...

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

. . . none of us are as sophisticated in these matters as you think. You know I always feel, with ev...

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage half shut afterwards.

Without love what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking aro...

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have...

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame very pretty often hot and fierc...

For us of course the shared activity and therefore the companionship on which Friendship supervenes ...

Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they ha...

He banged on the side of the carriage. "Thomas! We must away at once to the nearest brothel. I seek ...

The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to st...

So you shun me? - you shut yourself up and grieve alone! I would rather you had come and upbraided m...

No, he said, we are not alone. I have you, and you have me. And there is Arya and Nasuada and Orik, ...