Quotes About Companionship

Old friends are best.

Even a really superior man almost always begins to deteriorate when he is habitually (as the phrase is) king of his company: and in his most habitual company the husband who has a wife inferior to him is always so.

A world from which solitude is extirpated, is a very poor ideal.

She took a step forward, then another. Gaby kept pace, and they walked into the darkness.

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.

The best of it is, God is with us.

They talked late into the night, as if they were old friends. And Stoner came to realize that she was, as she had said, almost happy with her despair; she would live her days out quietly, drinking a little more, year by year, numbing herself against the nothingness her life had become. He was glad that she had that, at least; he was grateful that she could drink.

For my friends do not desert me, and life stays; for those two things I must be grateful.

There's nothing worse than being alone when you aren't strong enough to face your own thoughts. You can stand it just so long, and then––Well, then you just can't be alone any longer. You've got to do something, no matter how silly it is. You've got to make yourself believe you aren't alone, even if you are.

To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it, to outrage its nature. The prisoner and the cenobite are aware that the herd exists beyond their exile; they are an aspect of it. But when the herd no longer exists, there is, for the herd creature, no longer entity, a part of no whole; a freak without a place. If he cannot hold on to his reason, then he is lost indeed; most utterly, most fearfully lost, so that he becomes no more than the twitch in the limb of a corpse.

We sang the last chords as we burst into my room, waking up Merlin who had been sleeping contently on my bed. Fern snuggled next to him also asleep, still asleep.

I begged her not to leave me. I begged her to stay and help me bear my life.

Marriage is a great institution.

Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.

They met middle-age together-a time when women are necessary to one another-and all the petty but grievous insults of greying hair, crowsfeet, and the loathed encumbrances of unwanted flesh, seemed less sordid when faced and fought (though fought spasmodically and with weak wills) gaily together.

It had never occurred to me that simply being with a fellow prisoner would make me feel like I was still in prison.

I loved that phrase: soul mate. We asked Grandma what it meant and she said, 'Two people who understand each other without talking about it. Two halves of a whole.

It's like being in love, discovering your best friend.

There it was, I realised suddenly, the three of us were friends.

It's like being in love, discovering a best friend.

Won't you tell him please to put on some speed, follow my lead, oh how I need, someone to watch over me.

laugh and the world laughs with you. weep and weep alone

The Elephant And The Dog

Loneliness. There is no worse loneliness than the loneliness of a dog who never was anything but lonely, because the loneliness is normal, like a heartbeat. Do you think it's easy to go to the place inside a dog where the loneliness is, when you can't even do it with yourself?