Companionship Quotations

Yes, the companionship is amazing. You know, you can get that physical attraction that happens is great, but then there's an awful lot of time and the rest of the day that you have to fill.

One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.

There is not enough celebration of companionship. Relationships aren't just about eroticism and sexuality.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.

But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing.

If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.

A large family party is rather too much like a flight of tomtits; everlasting twitter, but no conversation; gregariousness without companionship.

When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog.

Inspired questions will bring about inspired answers. Seek for the companionship of the Holy Ghost as you prepare.

Champagne offers a minimum of alcohol and a maximum of companionship.

I find greater companionship in inert figures, animals & speechless artifacts, for I can enjoy their presence & there is no psychic drain

I dont crave companionship. It stands in my way. I live for pleasure. There are few persons who can give me as much pleasure as those acts I perform myself. I would rather create pleasure according to my own whim than be subjected to the whims of others.

We cannot love God unless we love each other, and to love we must know each other. We know Him in the breaking of bread, and we know each other in the breaking of bread, and we are not alone anymore. Heaven is a banquet and life is a banquet, too, even with a crust, where there is companionship.

I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted companionship of a dog that you can get from no other source.

It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all.

Heartfelt and willing obedience invites the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost.

It is easier to find guides, someone to tell you what to do, than someone to be with you in a discerning, prayerful companionship as you work it out yourself. This is what spiritual direction is.

I don't require sex for happiness - I need companionship. I need a partner I can depend on, that I can love and grow with.

There is no separation in Divine Mind, therefore, I cannot be separated from the love and companionship which are mine by divine right.

Constant companionship is not enjoyable, any more than constant eating. We sit too long at the table of friendship, when we outsit our appetites for each other's thoughts.

Of all the paths [that] lead to a woman's love Pity's the straightest.

When a companion's heart of itself overflows, the best one can do is to do nothing.

Isolation offered its own form of companionship

In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.

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

Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like.

He thought of her often, and he missed the companionship they'd once shared and the friendship that had been the bedrock of their marriage at its best.

Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.

"Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation." -If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he and I was I.

Not romance but companionship makes the happiness of daily life.

A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer. It dies by the same token. It is therefore risky to send it out into the world. How often it must be impaired by the eyes of the unfeeling and the cruelty of the impotent.

We expect more from technology and less from each other. We create technology to provide the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.

It is better to live alone, there is no companionship with a fool.

While serving others, we are most likely to plead for the companionship of the Holy Ghost. Success in the Lord’s service always produces miracles beyond our own powers.

A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life.

There's something comforting about the companionship of animals in a new place.

The companionship of dead writers is a wonderful form of live friendship.

Love was not something that people married for generally in those days. They married for security. They married for economic reasons, you know, companionship - but not love.

The most important thing in my life is Christ,

Honeybees depend not only on physical contact with the colony, but also require it's social companionship and support. Isolate a honeybee from her sisters and she will soon die.

What, I ask, drives me to disorder? How can I diagnose myself? All I feel, most immediately, is the most anguished need for physical love and mental companionship -

In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise.

What is companionship where nothing that improves the intellect is communicated, and where the larger heart contracts itself to the model and dimension of the smaller?

Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.

If it be honor in your wars to seem The same you are not,--which, for your best ends, You adopt your policy--how is it less or worse, That it shall hold companionship in peace With honour, as in war: since that to both It stands in like request?

You are the love you seek. You are the companionship you desire. You are your own completion, your own wholeness. You are your best friend, your confidant. 'You are,' as poetess Audre Lourde wrote, 'the one that you are looking for.' You are the only one who can do what you are looking for someone else to do.

Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone.

Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow.

I am convinced that...in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship.

Solitude sometimes is best society.

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness.