Quotes About Companionship

This is what you should know about losing someone you love. They do not travel alone. You go with them.

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

Well, you know, just some old man all alone. God, I hope I don't end up alone like that. Some pathetic old woman with nobody to go on a whale watch with.

Hope and God were buddies. Theirs was not a formal relationship steeped in ritual and tradition. It was more of a close yet casual friendship.

It seems like maybe we tried to sleep normally a long time ago, when Bentley was a puppy. But then he gradually moved from his little bed to the floor next to our bed. And then from the floor to the foot of the bed. And then from the foot to next to me. And now from next to me to between us, under the covers, with his head on a pillow next to ours.

I discovered the bleeding when he licked my hand and left a swath of blood behind, death's autograph.

We were alone together, we were an us.

Two hundred tons of ore is a great amount of ore. If, after a reasonable amount of time and effort you remain unhappily single, my suggestion is that you employ the services of a cat or a dog. Both cats and dogs are known hiding places of soul mates. They are also very, very good at getting strangers to talk to them in kind voices. Which, it should be noted, could be of some use to those who might otherwise be too shy to step forward and say, hello.

This is what you should know about losing somebody you love. They do not travel alone. You go with them.

Stars should not be seen alone. That's why there are so many. Two people should stand together and look at them. One person alone will surely miss the good ones.

He'd been single for so long, and the more I knew him, the more I saw the loneliness at his core. I felt like I brought him to life. He

They talked about nothing in particular, sentences that had meaning only in the sound of the voices, in the warm gaiety, in the ease of complete relaxation. They were simply four people who liked being there together.

You know, Ellsworth,' Keating said, leaning forward, happy in an uneasy kind of way, 'I'd rather talk to you than do anything else, anything at all. I had so many places to go tonight--and I'm so much happier sitting here with you. Sometimes I wonder how I'd ever go on without you.' 'That,' said Toohey, 'is as it should be. Or else what are friends for?

That depends ... If I could hear your voice, I think I might be able to hold out.

The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are. —C. S. Lewis, Selected Literary Essays

Il vero coraggio è quando non vedi nessuno vicino a te. Allora devi partire da solo. E poi magari ti volti indietro e c'è qualcuno, in mezzo agli alberi, sulla cima di una montagna, al di là del fiume. E capisci che sta camminando al tuo fianco.

Relationship Time to Aloneness. Having a companion fixes you in time and that of the present, but when the quality of aloneness settles down, past, present and future all flow together. A memory, a present event, and a forecast all equally present.

I had no one to hold. What if this was my life, attending weddings, sitting in pews, listening to I do's, perpetually wishing for someone to share my life with? Where the fuck was the alcohol?

I still love to love my friends, but I punctuate those moments with solitude.

Come on-I'll see you back to your room and the estimable Martha. She put her hand in his and let him draw her to her feet. Tomorrow...don't worry, he murmured, as he ushered her back through the darker side of the snug. I'll be waiting in Carlisle to fall in behind the coach when you go past. Through the dimness he met her eyes. I won't lose you. Her lips softly curved. I didn't imagine you would.

With a silent mew, Myst stood, stretched, then padded forward to twine about his leg. Vane reached down and rubbed his fingers over the sleek head, then ran his nails down her spine. Myst arched, tail stiffening; the rumble of her purr reached Vane. It also reached Patience; she glanced down. Myst! she hissed. Stop bothering Mr. Cynster. She's not bothering me. Capturing Patience's gaze, Vane added: I enjoy making females purr.

He and Marcus sipped and a companionable silence fell. Marcus nodded at the pile of news sheets and asked if anything truly important had occurred; Thomas's reply—that while according to the pundits, the skies were close to falling, as they always were in the pundits' eyes, nothing had changed that might even remotely impact the lives of those in their small corner of the world—made Marcus grin.

So if you got one friend when you die, then you got something most people never have.

Loneliness is not only positively characterized by a certain degree of isolation, but is negatively characterized by a deficiency of participation.