Companion Quote by Anonymous

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.

— Pierre Charron

It is really rather foolish to so often feel we have to say something brilliant and enlightening to someone who is suffering. Job makes…

— Kathryn Lindskoog

All companionship can consist in only the strengthening of neighboring solitudes, giving oneself is by nature harmful to companionship: for when a person abandons…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Suffering, if it is accepted together, borne together, is joy.

— Mother Teresa

Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.

— Dean Koontz

We are social animals. Others' suffering is ultimately your suffering; their happiness is ultimately your happiness.

— Dalai Lama

I am persuaded there is no such thing after all as a perfect enjoyment of solitude; for the more delicious the solitude the more…

— Leigh Hunt

Suffering itself is beloved: love and suffering are far closer to each other than love and pleasure.

— Lydia Millet

When you have a lot of solitude, any living thing becomes a companion.

— Jose Mujica

Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something, as a support, which ever in the sincerest friend is most delightful.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.

— Franz Liszt

It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.

— Publilius Syrus