#Companionship Quotes

“Thou mak'st me merry: I am full of pleasure; let us be jocund”

“Grief best is pleased with grief's society.”

“Who alone suffers suffers most i' th' mind,Leaving free things and happy shows behind;But then the mind much sufferance doth o'erskipWhen grief hath mates, and bearing fellowship.”

“It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.”

“It is with a good book as it is with good company.”

“Men who know the same things are not long the best company for each other.”

“I would not wish any companion in the world but you.”

“Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.”

“Painting is a companion with whom one may walk a great part of life's journey.”

“We imperatively require a perception of and a homage to beauty in our companions. Other virtues are in request in the field and workyard, but a certain degree of taste is not to be spared in those we sit with.”

“No man can be condemned for owning a dog. As long as he has a dog, he has a friend; and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has.”

“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.”

“Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.”

“What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion.”

“Sit with lovers and choose their state. Do not stay long with those who are not living in the heart.”

“My giant goes with me wherever I go.”

“I am an ark in the swift flood of time, and my companions, a fellowship. Who throws in with us sails into light.”

“Whenever he was out of luck and a little down-hearted, he would fall to mourning over the loss of a wonderful cat he used to own (for where women and children are not, men of kindly impulses take up with pets, for they must love something)”

“We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.”

“I want her to be smart and kind... and I want you to fall in love with her, because you shouldn't spend the rest of your life alone.”

“A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?”

“I just love dogs, and there really is no better companion than an animal.”

“I love you, Elizabeth... and more than that, I like you. I enjoy spending time with you.”

“Your dog is your only philosopher.”

“I want to wake up with you beside me in the mornings. I want to spend my evenings looking at you across the dinner table. I want to share every mundane detail of my day with you and hear every detail of yours. I want to laugh with you and fall asleep with you in my arms.”

“and all I could think was that I would like to spend every morning for the rest of my life waking up beside her”

“A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out.”

“It all comes down to who's by your side.”

“The music was my friend, my lover, my family.”

“He had an uncommon fondness for cats. As an old man summering in New Hampshire, Twain even rented kittens from a nearby farm to keep him company until he returned home. "If man could be crossed with the cat," said Twain, "it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat." There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.”

“A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys.”

“In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think.”

“I have a little dog who likes to nap with me. He climbs on my body and puts his face in my neck. He is sweeter than soap. He is more wonderful than a diamond necklace, which can't even bark.”

“To get the full value of joyYou must have someone to divide it with.After all these years I see that I was mistaken about Evein the beginning; it is better to live outside the Gardenwith her than inside it without her.”

“Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.”

“A bore is someone who takes away my solitude and doesn't give me companionship in return.”

“A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go.”

“If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.”

“You and I By Henry Alford My hand is lonely for your clasping, dear; My ear is tired waiting for your call. I want your strength to help, your laugh to cheer; Heart, soul and senses need you, one and all. I droop without your full, frank sympathy; We ought to be together—you and I; We want each other so, to comprehend The dream, the hope, things planned, or seen, or wrought. Companion, comforter and guide and friend, As much as love asks love, does thought ask thought. Life is so short, so fast the lone hours fly, We ought to be together, you and I.”

“When we think of all the things we want to do with our other half the answer should be simple; we should want to do absolutely everything with them. We should want to experience everything, feel everything, see everything with no one but them by our sides. When we look back on our lives it's not the things we did do with them that we'll regret, it's the things we didn't do.”

“I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.”

“If it were not for guests all houses would be graves.”

“I want to be with my best friend. My best friend, my wife. Who could ask for anything more?”

“To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating.”

“Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.”

“I'm looking for someone to share in an adventure.”

“The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance. The late owner of this estate was a single man, who lived to a very advanced age, and who for many years of his life, had a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister.”

“I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.”

“I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”

“Together we will take the road that leads into the West, And far away will find a land where both our hearts may rest.”