Top 100 For Companionship Quotes
#1. In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
Graham Greene
#2. I looked at her, wanting her with all the lust of my months alone and untouched. But I knew also that for that deeper hunger for companionship and understanding, she offered me no more solace than any man might find in his own hand.
Robin Hobb
#3. In the presence of their love I sensed my lonliness, and I understood for a moment, clearly, that deep and basic human desire for companionship at depth.
Luke Davies
#4. Work isn't only earning a living; work gives us a sense of purpose and worth and opportunities for companionship.
Billy Graham
#5. We are at a moment of temptation, ready to turn to machines for companionship even as we seem pained or inconvenienced to engage with each other in settings as simple as a grocery store. We want technology to step up as we ask people to step back.
Sherry Turkle
#6. The only way for a relationship to survive, I think, is to have no sex at all. After all, you marry for friendship, for companionship - and passion after a while ... pfffft. I mean, does it excite you when your left hand touches your right?
Diane Von Furstenberg
#7. The need for devotion to something outside ourselves is even more profound than the need for companionship. If we are not to go to pieces or wither away, we all must have some purpose in life; for no man can live for himself alone.
Ross Parmenter
#8. The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.
Jackie Kennedy
#9. People want to marry me for companionship. No thanks! I've got my cats for that!
Ruth Rendell
#10. She hoped to understand the feelings that had sprouted and continued to grow inside her human shell. The unquenchable desire for companionship. The irrational fear of uncertainty. The constant, gnawing need for more.
Hillary Jacques
#11. Smart people in rural areas, the handicapped, people looking for companionship, they love it. But you have to be highly motivated to get on and learn to use it.
Philip Rosedale
#12. Eli: Thank you lord for a warm bed to sleep on, thank you for the food we are about to eat, thank you for a roof over our heads on cold nights such as this, thank you for companionship in hard times like these, Amen.
Book Of Eli Movie
#13. Then she was alone- with only a wolf for companionship- waiting to tell the next girl what a folly it was to love him, to trust him.
Melissa Marr
#14. But I wondered why they had waited for Eve's illness to make themselves available for companionship.
Garth Stein
#15. He couldn't help but feel he was a little too young to consider forgoing sex for the rest of his life for the sake of companionship.
Kele Moon
#16. 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
#17. Brief flings and the companionship of a professional are no match for the love and trust between a husband and wife.
Barbara Longley
#18. The soul that has been enriched by communion with God will not be dismayed by isolation but will welcome solitude. He will seek not the crowd but the closet, and emerging will never walk alone, for he has unseen companionship.
Frances J Roberts
#19. She was wonderful; no mother could have been more wonderful. But ever after, she demanded that I should not forget it, nor cease to be grateful, nor hold an opinion different from her own, nor even, as I grew older, feel the need for any companionship but hers.
Rosemary Sutcliff
#20. I think marriage is dangerous. The idea of two people trying to possess each other is wrong. I don't think the flare of love lasts. Your mind rather than your emotions must answer for the success of matrimony. It must be friendship - a calm companionship which can last through the years.
Carole Lombard
#21. Only people of a certain disposition are frightened of being alone for the rest of their lives at twenty-six; we were of that disposition
Nick Hornby
#22. Even he whose near ones have all died, one by one, is not alone-companionship comes for him from behind the screen of death.
Rabindranath Tagore
#23. A craving for company can yield the surprising discovery that the companionship we yearn for is with ourselves.
Gina Greenlee
#24. Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.
Dean Koontz
#25. You need a companion for your thought process, than a physical relationship.
Rajasaraswathii
#26. The illusion of companionship sits waiting in the television set. We keep our televisions on more than we watch them - an average of more than seven hours a day. For background. For company.
Louise Bernikow
#27. Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.
Patrick Rothfuss
#28. Old people don't need companionship. They need to be isolated and studied so it can be determined what nutrients they have that might be extracted for our personal use.
Homer
#29. I am never lonely when I am praying, for this brings me into companionship with the greatest friend of all - Jesus Christ. He said, "I call you not servants; ... but ... friends" [John 15:15 KJV].
Billy Graham
#30. The main reason why your company can easily influence you is because "emotion and attitude are stronger than knowledge". What you see can overcome what you know. You can easily damp away what you already know when you are faced with the reality of what your senses tell you to do!
Israelmore Ayivor
#31. A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange ... Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not mere companionship.
Aristotle.
#32. Nothing is quite so beautiful as when you share it with it with someone else. There is no purpose in working unless one works for someone, for something.
Louis L'Amour
#33. The role that people play in your life can determine how far you can go.
Israelmore Ayivor
#34. Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly.
Bill Gates
#35. Faithful is also a reminder of how important companionship is to the Christian walk, but not more important than the desire for eternal life that motivated Faithful to keep fleeing for his life, no matter how strong the desire for friendship.
Chapter
John Bunyan
#36. Choose your mate not alone for physical attraction, but for congenial and spiritual companionship.
David O. McKay
#37. Life's gonna kick you in the butt.
That's what it does.
But if you gotta put up with this crap, the least you can expect is that your friends will stand by you. I mean, for crying in the night, what else are friends for but to help you make right what isn't in life? (Kira, The Mishmorat)
Richelle E. Goodrich
#38. Sometimes I feel like I'm losing my mind," she said with a hint
of 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
#39. People talk about games and loneliness - it's a lonely activity. I didn't understand that. 'Gears of War' was the first multiplayer game for me that I enjoyed. But I wasn't sad. I liked being alone. I liked playing games by myself. I had lots of companionship at the house.
Tim Schafer
#40. A million years is a short time - the shortest worth messing with for most problems. You begin tuning your mind to a time scale that is the planet's time scale. For me, it is almost unconscious now and is a kind of companionship with the earth.
John McPhee
#41. My inner guidance is there for me to call on anytime I need or want extra clarity, wisdom, knowledge, support, creative inspiration, love, or companionship.
Shakti Gawain
#42. If somebody needs, like, a phone call every day or some kind of constant companionship, I'm not a really good friend for them. I can talk to my best friend every couple years and be really happy.
Patricia Arquette
#43. I began to pray for help with what I needed and wanted as well as for the knowledge of God's will for me and the power to carry it out. Immediately, I felt a heightened sense of spiritual companionship.
Julia Cameron
#44. How odd it is that we so often weep for each other's distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!
Anne Bronte
#45. Older Americans are perfect telemarketing customers, analysts say, because they are often at home, rely on delivery services, and are lonely for the companionship that telephone callers provide.
Charles Duhigg
#46. Rue was a romantic. Her parents were a love match. Had to be, for there was no other possible explanation for them tolerating one another. Thus Rue held the very peculiar opinion that love made for a most agreeable form of companionship.
Gail Carriger
#47. But give thanks, at least, that you still have Frost's poems; and when you feel the need of solitude, retreat to the companionship of moon, water, hills and trees. Retreat, he reminds us, should not be confused with escape. And take these poems along for good luck!
Robert Graves
#48. If what you seek is true and genuine companionship, then give true and genuine companionship in order to create a vibrational magnet for that what you are seeking.
Franklin Gillette
#49. The Lord's people are dear for another's sake. Such is the love which the Father bears to His only begotten, that for His sake He raises His lowly brethren from poverty and banishment, to courtly companionship, noble rank, and royal provision.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#50. We weren't old and lame and interested in companionship; that's only functional at a certain age for child rearing or to make sure you don't die alone. Dating was fucking.
A.D. Aliwat
#51. A true leader cannot be dependent on companionship for his or her security, but must learn to trust in God alone.
Eric Ludy
#52. The universe is under the control of a loving purpose, and that in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship (angels). Behind the harsh appearance of the world there is a benign power.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#53. I turn to books for a feeling of companionship: for somebody knowing what I have known.
Lois Lowry
#54. I'm the only member of SFWA in Nebraska, but I don't pine away for the companionship of other science fiction writers. I [go] to very few conventions. I'm quite willing to be that eccentric who has a very odd job, quite happy to be the only science fiction writer in town.
Robert Reed
#56. We like companionship, see, but we can't stand to be around people for very long. So we go get ourselves lost, come back for a while, then get the hell out again.
Jon Krakauer
#57. Even though men and women are different in our thinking, we all share the need and desire for compassion, compliments, and companionship.
Germany Kent
#58. Seated at table -
no need for the fracture
of the room's silence; noiselessly
they conversed.
R.S. Thomas
#59. When you don't know what you're searching for, you have to look absolutely everywhere.
Holly Black
#60. They were the worst threats to a home, for they offered ease and thought and companionship as opposed to neatness, order, and properness
John Steinbeck
#61. She loved him. There it was. The thing she'd vowed would never happen. She loved Theo Harp. Not just his body or his face. Not just for sex or companionship. Definitely not for his money. She loved him for who he was. For his beautiful, tortured, kind soul.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#62. I am convinced that ... in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#63. Baptism by water leads to the authorized opportunity for the constant companionship of the third member of the Godhead.
David A. Bednar
#64. Men like Carew, he knows, tend to blame him, Cromwell, for Anne's rise in the world; he facilitated it, he broke the old marriage and let in the new. He does not expect them to soften to him, to include him in their companionship; he only wants them not to spit in his dinner.
Hilary Mantel
#65. For, what is home? Surely more than a set of rooms, a roof, an address? Home suggests belonging. Suggests warmth, safety, companionship. Love.
Paula Brackston
#66. I find greater companionship in inert figures, animals & speechless artifacts, for I can enjoy their presence & there is no psychic drain
Anton Szandor LaVey
#67. Is there such a thing as a perfect match?"
"If one strives for perfection in and itself, then, no. But if one strives only to find the piece that compliments, that stands nobly alone, yet is made better with companionship, then yes, I believe a match is possible.
April White
#68. 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
#69. Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.
Aristotle.
#70. For me, marriage worked differently. As a single person, I never felt totally free. My commitment to my marriage freed me. No lies, no mind games, no judging each other. For me, marriage is pure joyful companionship.
Shon Mehta
#71. 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
#72. Sometimes there's other reason for helping, other than personal gain or benefit," added Sam softly. "Friendship, companionship, trust and love are not confined to light alone ... they are harder won, fewer seen ... but no less real.
Eve Forward
#73. I have said that I dwelt apart from the visible world, but I have not said that I dwelt alone. This no human creature may do; for lacking the fellowship of the living, he inevitably draws upon the companionship of things that are not, or are no longer, living.
H.P. Lovecraft
#74. I wanted to find self-worth and happiness in this false togetherness. I wanted companionship but by wanting that, it made me weak because I wanted to lean on him after leaning on myself for so, so long. I liked him. He
Pepper Winters
#75. It is useless, sisters, for you to attempt the duties of your exalted callings ... without the constant companionship of the Spirit of God.
Susa Young Gates
#76. We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposed to rob us of their companionship.
James Harvey Robinson
#77. Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
Henry Adams
#78. 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
#79. Alcoholics crave a drink because it offers escape, relaxation, companionship, the blunting of anxieties, and an opportunity for emotional release.
Charles Duhigg
#80. Look for Me. Long for Me. Experience unbroken companionship with Me.
Lysa TerKeurst
#81. In the end, for congenial sympathy, for poetry, for work, for original feeling and expression, for perfect companionship with one's friends
give me the country.
D.H. Lawrence
#82. Food and fire, protection and companionship, were some of the things he received from the god. In return, he guarded the god's property, defended his body, worked for him, and obeyed him.
Jack London
#83. Being apart was wrong. Simply lying side by side did more for a relationship than words. A warm bed, a nest of animal intimacy. Words could be misunderstood, whereas loving companionship bred trust.
Michel Faber
#84. Humankind has turned to world into a cruel and inhospitable place. The thing that makes it all bearable is the potential for loving companionship.
Christopher Earle
#85. 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 -
Susan Sontag
#86. Toklo raked his companions with a hard glance. "Don't risk your own safety."
"I bet you'll risk yours," Lusa said, aware once again of how deeply she trusted this bear.
"That's what I'm here for," Toklo retorted.
Erin Hunter
#87. 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.
Anton Szandor LaVey
#88. 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.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#89. He served humankind but never understood people, and though he yearned with all his heart for love and companionship, year after year he could bear humanity less and less in the flesh. His
Jan Swafford
#90. Night was come, and her planets were risen: a safe, still night: too serene for the companionship of fear.
Charlotte Bronte
#91. When you assume responsibility for what you experience
and share what you experience in a spirit of companionship,
that is the same as forgiveness.
When you hold someone responsible for what you experience,
you lose power.
Gary Zukav
#92. But I can't say that gratitude was my motive for infringing on the Law of Cultural Embargo. I was not paying my debt to him. Such debts remain owing. Estraven and I had simply arrived at the point where we shared whatever we had that was worth sharing.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#93. The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#94. One can only snort so many ants and have so much sex before one starts to long for the comfort and companionship of a good book.
Moby
#95. If companionship is a mandate for all of our experiences, then we will miss out on many of life's blessings.
Gina Greenlee
#96. There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.
Philip Pullman
#97. 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
#98. Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that loneliness can be an unnoticed cramping of the spirit for lack of companionship.
Doris Lessing
#99. What is Love? It is a long followed companionship of two souls.
Rajasaraswathii
#100. I want to be loved, honestly and truly loved, for who I am. And I want to love a woman with all my heart for all my life. I want to ache for her mind, for her body, for her companionship.
Kerrelyn Sparks
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