Companion Quote by Jan Smuts

We talk of communing with Nature, but 'tis with ourselves we commune... Nature furnishes the conditions - the solitude - and the soul furnishes…

— John Burroughs

I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me. Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I…

— Anonymous

“All those invisible presences ... began to transform themselves into companions that were more or less volatile, more or less intense, companions that I'd…

— María Dueñas

We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. [...] By its…

— Aldous Huxley

“This path was not that of my conscious choosing. But after persistent subconscious confrontation, I have finally embraced what is, 'souly' for me...and I…

— T.F. Hodge

“For we are so constituted by nature, that we are ever prone to compare ourselves with others; and our happiness or misery depends very…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by whom we are with, we temper our…

— Alain de Botton

In solitude we become aware that we were together before we came together and that life is not a creation of our will but…

— Henri Nouwen

It is only in the giving of ourselves to others that we truly live — only with the meeting of our minds — thine…

— Ethel Percy Andrus

At the age of twelve I had an attitude toward life that was to endure, that was to make me seek those areas of…

— Richard Wright

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

— Jose Mujica

You are alone, you have no companion: you will suffer the consequences of your own deeds.

— Ritu Ghatourey