#companions

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough ↗

— Walt Whitman

#contentment #family #family

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

#marriage #silence #talk #life

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

#loneliness #marriage #single #spinsterhood #marriage

Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#feet #fewer #four #never #our

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#companions #days #faces #familiar #gone

Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#capital #companions #fellows #grown #mates

Never were two people more opposite in sentiment than my companions. ↗

— William Hamilton Maxwell

#more #never #opposite #people #sentiment

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#approach #aware #become #companions #had

As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with clarity, I became more and more alienated from that which my companions held, or professed to hold. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#became #began #clarity #companions #discover

When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship. ↗

— Lew Wallace

#companionship #lonely #people #stoop