Companionship Quotes - Page 2

• As you get older, you realize it's work. It's that fine line between love and companionship. But passionate love? I'd love to know how to make that last.

  Tracey Ullman

  Passionate, Lines, Lasts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Dog, Cat, Animal

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• Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Lonely, Home, Men

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• When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.

  Lew Wallace

  Lonely, Loneliness, People

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• A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort.

  Seneca the Younger

  Comfort, Crowds, Kind

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 124-25, Consol. ad Marc.', 12, 5, 1922.

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• I was spooked when I first got the role, as I was afraid I wouldn't have the companionship I need on a shoot, because I'm so into the process itself, not so much the end product.

  Jacqueline McKenzie

  Scary, Firsts, Needs

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

  Theophrastus

  May, Flattery, Flatterer

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• My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

  Franz Kafka

  Cheating, Loneliness, Mean

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• It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Spiritual, Emotional

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• One of the silliest lines ever said in a feature film came from Love Story, the 1970s hit, which immortalized the phrase, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." There are few people who would actually want to share a life with someone who held that concept near and dear.

  Marge M. Kennedy

  Sorry, Mean, People

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• So many people have that relationship. The companionship. The connection. To our - to other beings, our pets. I hate to call them pets. But you know, to other creatures that we share our lives with.

  Keanu Reeves

  Hate, People, Pet

  Source: screenrant.com

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

  Max Muller

  Fool, Dhammapada

  Max Muller (2013). “Sacred Books of the East: Including Selections from the Vedic Hymns, Zend-Avesta, Dhammapada, Upanishads, the Koran, and the Life of Buddha”, p.162, Lulu Press, Inc

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• 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?

  William Shakespeare

  War, Honor, Ends

  William Shakespeare (2007). “Complete Works”

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• No blast of air or fire of sun Puts out the light whereby we run With girdled loins our lamplit race, And each from each takes heart of grace And spirit till his turn be done.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Running, Heart, Fire

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1901). “Songs before sunrise”

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

  Christopher Marlowe

  Comfort, Miserable, Poor

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

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Brother, Love Life

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• Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.

  Elsa Schiaparelli

  Life, Food, Eating Well

  Elsa Schiaparelli (1954). “Shocking Life”

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

  William James

  Needs, Way, Surprise

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.269, Booklassic

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• It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Men, Appreciate, Intellectual

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2007). “SAT Words from Literature - the Scarlet Letter”, p.35, Prestwick House Inc

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• It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.

  Hosea Ballou

  Vices, Slavery, Steps

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• . . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

  Aristotle

  Political, Noble, Sake

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.97, Aristotle

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• It's true that writing is a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once you get to know them.

  Anne Tyler

  Character, Writing, Groups

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• Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.

  Octavia Butler

  Suicide, Jesus, Heaven

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• What it meant to me: a happy life, of course, companionship, of course. A common objective, I think.

  Denis Thatcher

  Happy Life, Thinking, Objectivity

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• Oh, a friend! How true is that old saying, that the enjoyment of one is sweeter and more necessary than that of the elements of water and fire!

  Michel de Montaigne

  Love, Friendship, Fire

  Michel de Montaigne (2003). “The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters”, Everyman's Library

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