#companions

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

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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

'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone. ↗

— Thomas More

#blooming #companions #faded #gone #her

The reader need not be told that John Bull never leaves home without encumbering himself with the greatest possible load of luggage. Our companions were no exception to the rule. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#companions #exception #greatest #himself #home

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... ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#companionship #right

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

— Mark Twain

#companionship #joy #values

Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#human #lonely #need #lonely

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#company #privacy #solitude #solitude

The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship. ↗