Quotes About Companionship

Friendship is one of the greatest luxuries of life.

We derive immeasurable good, uncounted pleasures, enormous security, and many critical lessons about life by owning dogs.

Friends make life a lot more fun.

It's almost impossible to live the right life when you have the wrong friends.

There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody.

I've always been an animal lover. I've grown up with dogs my whole life.

Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.

I buried Little Ann by the side of Old Dan. I knew that was where she wanted to be. I also buried a part of my life along with my dog.

I have gotten to a point in my life where I don't want to have dinner with someone I don't like.

I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you're like, 'I need women around.'

We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog has made an alliance with us.

I know of no realm of life that can provide more companionship in a lonely world or greater feelings of security and purpose in chaotic times than the close ties of a family.

Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.

A friend is a second self.

No one can develop freely in this world and find a full life without feeling understood by at least one person.

I'm surrounded by good people. That's the measure of a good life. All the rest is flotsam.

I think about how amazing it is that you can have someone that close to you, that for the first time you literally aren't alone in your body anymore. Yet somehow you can still feel lonely.

No estás solo. ? Y antes que pueda decirle ‹‹De hecho lo estoy, lo cual no forma parte del problema. Todo estamos solos, atrapados en el interior del cuerpo y de la mente, y sea cual sea la compañía que podamos tener en esta vida, no es más que pasajera y superficial››

We're swaying a little to the music, and I'm looking into his eyes and thinking how amazing it is that you can live for eighteen years without knowing someone, and then they can come along and, like that, know you better than anyone. And you can't imagine what you ever did before they knew you and saw you and heard you and talked to you about all the things they've been through and all the things that matter to them.

You have been in every way all that anyone could be. . . . If anybody could have saved me it would have been you.

I learned that there is good in this world, if you look hard enough for it. I learned that not everyone is disappointing, including me, and that a 1,257-foot bump in the ground can feel higher than a bell tower if you're standing next to the right person

I learned that there is good in this world, if you look hard enough for it. I learned that not everyone is disappointing, including me, and that a 1,257-foot bump in the ground can feel higher than a bell tower if you're standing next to the right person.

There's no better feeling than looking into a dog's eyes. It's like they fetch all the love you can possibly throw out and then give it back to you. That, and they know all your secrets." -Ari

My friend Doggie was gone, and I never even got a chance to say good-bye to him for keeps.