41 Quotes About Companionship

Dating is almost non existent in the modern world. With modern technology, we have been trained to seek instant results. This does not necessarily function well with the dating world. Here are some great quotes about companionship that capture the unique nature of sharing your life with someone special.

“A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.”

“Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.”

“Affection is created by habit, community of interests, convenience and the desire of companionship. It is a comfort rather than an exhilaration.”

“All of us love companionship and sympathy; some of us may love them too much. All of us are more or less imaginative in our theology.”

“Both spiritual companionship and spiritual motherliness are not limited to the physical wife and mother relationship, but they extend to all people with whom woman comes into contact.”

“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.”

“Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.”

“Companionship is better than commitment but sometimes showing love and care through communication is better than together.”

“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.”

“He dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her. ”

“How we need another soul to cling to.”

“I can understand companionship.”

“I don’t know that I would want to be married again, but I do love companionship.”

“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.”

“I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.”

“I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I’ve been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be.”

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

“It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.”

“It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.”

“Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is life.”

“Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust.”

“No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.”

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

“She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people…”

“Solitude sometimes is best society.”

“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.”

“The companionship of a secret is often corruptive to good habits, such as sleep and appetite.”

“The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.”

“The only thing that’s better in a group versus being by yourself is the companionship. You have to do a lot of thing by yourself as a solo artist. But it’s cool. It’s worth it.”

“The solution to alone-ness is not more solitude, but companionship and community.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.”

“To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.”

“Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.”

“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.”

“We are on parallel paths with the planet. The wants and needs of marine wildlife are our own: we want connection, companionship, a healthy clean environment.”

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

“With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.”

Working together as one is what companionship is all about.