Companionship Quotes

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

~ Kurt Cobain

Here's what I think. We all want someone to build a fort with. We want somebody to swap crayons with and play hide-and-seek with and live out imaginary stories with. We start out getting that from our family. Then we get it from our friends. And then, for whatever reasons, we get it in our heads that we need to get that feeling- that intimacy- from a single someone else. We call if growing up. But really, when you take sex out of it, what we want is a companion. And we make that so damn hard to find.

~ David Levithan

Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?

~ Emily Brontë

...we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it.

~ Chris Crutcher

I want someone to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, and its waitings, and its suspicions. After quarrelling and reconciliation I need privacy - to be alone with you, to set this hubbub in order. For I am as neat as a cat in my habits.

~ Virginia Woolf

Often you shall think your road impassable, sombre and companionless. Have will and plod along; and round each curve you shall find a new companion.

~ Mikhail Naimy

For us of course the shared activity and therefore the companionship on which Friendship supervenes will not often be a bodily one like hunting or fighting. It may be a common religion, common studies, a common profession, even a common recreation. All who share it will be our companions; but one or two or three who share something more will be our Friends. In this kind of love, as Emerson said, Do you love me? means Do you see the same truth? - Or at least, Do you care about the same truth? The man who agrees with us that some question, little regarded by others, is of great importance can be our Friend. He need not agree with us about the answer.

~ C.s. Lewis

Friends can create our most cherished memories.

~ Fennel Hudson

Some people will hear you louder in silence. Those are your tribe - they'll get you through the tough days and give you something to laugh about on the ride.

~ Nikki Rowe

There's something about you, Your eyes speak a story in a language only known to my soul. The kind of communication we as humans dream about, the one that reaches into the core of who you are and loves you for it. It doesn't appear often or by accident & when it happens you just know There's something about you .

~ Nikki Rowe

What's in a life without Camaraderie? For setting sail on a ship with a band of merry brothers by your side is much more gratifying than drifting aimlessly on a boat lost alone at sea.

~ Saim .A. Cheeda

Love is a feeling that must be felt from the heart and seen through inner beauty. Only if this was known to the youth, many a marriages would have blossomed with age and cherished through decades. Just like a plant that needs the sun, water and more time to grow into a beautiful tree with lovely leaves and flowers, love needs time to be nurtured over time, built on a strong foundation of friendship, trust and honesty. When this foundation is built and combined with the feeling that tickles you from within, that is when love actually happens, the rest is all infatuation, attraction or even lust.

~ Jagdish Joghee

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

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

There is now a distance,pressing quite persistent,May be only inches apart,but as if an artery is blocked.There now seem some secrets,a word which was earlier so needless.May be they now laugh so less,and even in summers,the air between them feels dense.Who connects? Who neglects?Barely matters when you are no more friends.

~ Jasleen Kaur Gumber

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

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

There’s a drive in a lost soul—in one that is searching for acceptance, companionship, belonging, whatever you want to call it. The slightest coincidence ignites a spark that one hopes will lead to something meaningful.

~ Doug Cooper

To leaders, one trusted friend is better than ten well known betrayers

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Your relationships will either empower you to overcome obstacles, or put fears in you so you can run away from them.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

If you want to be a leader, don't stand on the toes of dwarfs. Mount the shoulders of giants and you will see further.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Teamwork is the best ever investment. If I make 3 and you make 5, together we will not make 8. We will make 15. Leaders build active teams.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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

~ George Gordon Byron

Already, I seemed to feel my intellect deteriorating, my heart petrifying, my soul contracting; and Itrembled lest my very moral perceptions should become deadened, my distinctions of right and wrong confounded, and all my better faculties be sunk, at last, beneath the baneful influence of such a mode of life. The gross vapors of earth were gathering around me, and closing in upon my inward heaven; and thus it was that Mr. Weston rose at length upon me, appearing like the morning star in my horizon, to save me from the fear of utter darkness; and I rejoiced that I now had a subject for contemplation that was above me, not beneath.

~ Anne Brontë

Humankind has turned the world into a cruel and at times inhospitable place. The thing that makes it all bearable is the potential for loving companionship.

~ Christopher Earley

Peace is not about who you can live with, but who you can't live without.

~ Shannon L. Alder

So you shun me? - you shut yourself up and grieve alone! I would rather you had come and upbraided me with vehemence. You are passionate: I expected a scene of some kind. I was prepared for the hot rain of tears; only I wanted them to be shed on my breast: now a senseless floor has received them, or your drenched handkerchief. But I err: you have not wept at all! I see a white cheek and faded eye, but no trace of tears. I suppose, then, that your heart has been weeping blood?

~ Charlotte Brontë

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

~ Charlotte Brontë

I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.

~ Mary Ann Shaffer

If your spouse wants to cheat on you, he or she will. This world is a haven of opportunities. But no matter what, in any relationship, one must never doubt the spouse

~ Jagdish Joghee

Love fuels a happy soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We are inter-dependence and co-dependence upon one another.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

…evangelicals were instrumental in advancing the ideal of companionate marriage, one built on shared faith and mutual affection, a revolutionary notion in an era in which forced marriages were a not-so-distant memory.

~ Karen Swallow Prior

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

~ Agatha Christie

While learning others, respect demands that one never takes issue with another's freedom to choose their 'get down' - their way of living... and don't be mad. But carefully listen, observe, and compare mental notes before you open your heart's desire -- to make a clear determination what's in your best interest. If you already know how the story ends, and it doesn't fit you, keep [the] proper distance in perspective, in any form(s) of relationship, for the love of self. It may be disappointing, but you'll eventually discover the right one deserving of your full attention. Or, you may be surprised by their sudden awakening to your worthiness. Walk slowly, especially, when it comes to matters of the heart.

~ T.f. Hodge

I wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval version of myself. . .

~ Jennifer Haigh

Ka found it very soothing: for the first time in years, he felt part of a family. In spite of the trials and responsibilities of what was called 'family', he saw now the joys of its unyielding togetherness, and was sorry not to have known more of it in his life.

~ Orhan Pamuk

Nature gave you brothers and sisters and you have no right to choose who should become your relative. But the good news is that you have the right to choose your friends. You determine who to be free with and who to fire out.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Sometimes I feel like I’m losing my mind,” she said with a hintof sadness.“You lost your mind a long time ago,” he said seriously. She looked at him with indignation. “That’s a compliment for anyone who knows the freedom and clarity of losing their mind,” he reaffirmed her.

~ Daniel J. Rice

I want love, passion, honesty, and companionship... sex that drives me crazy and conversation that drives me sane.

~ Steve Maraboli

A good coach can be a caring parent, a wise teacher, an exemplary pastor, a passionate friend or a devoted mentor. Keep in touch with all of them especially at the time they are needed.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

And that's my comfort--that someone else was there and experienced the same thing. How else could I know it was real and not merely a dream?

~ Craig Thompson