Jiddu Krishnamurti
Philosopher, Speaker
"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."
Companionship quotes
Companionship
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William James
Philosopher, Psychologist
"There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights Leader
"I am convinced that...in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Politician, Philosopher, Orator
"Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like."
Seneca the Younger
Philosopher, Statesman
"No possession is gratifying without a companion."
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"Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage."
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"If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company."
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"Epicurus says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink."
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"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 -"
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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."
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"A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort."
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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?"
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"Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd."
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""Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation." -If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he and I was I."
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"Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow."
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"The companionship of dead writers is a wonderful form of live friendship."
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