Quotes About Companionship

Perhaps soon the two of them would grow accustomed to each other and guilt would come to eat out of his hand.

There were men who lived voluntarily in deserts, but they had their God to commune with. For nearly ten years he had felt no need of friends - one woman could include any number of friends.

I've reached the age when sex isn't the problem so much as old age and death. I wake up with these in mind and not a woman's body. I just don't want to be alone in my last decade, that's all. I wouldn't know what to think about all day long.

Can't own a woman, Mike. Wonderful companions, can't own them." "I know.

There's nothing harder than fighting alone, with no one to keep you company in your foxhole.

A man needs someone to engage his deepest emotions, to relieve his drives, to soften his obsessions, to accept the gifts he feels compelled to give, and maybe most important, to simply be with him during the thousands of small moments that in aggregate compose a life.

That was, he thought, what he wanted most of all. Not to be alone.

Amicus est tanquam alter idem, a friend is just like a second self

I love her so much that it hurts sometimes. People who don't have a dog can't know how it feels, just like those who don't have children can't understand that kind of love. They aren't the same, of course. But both are real.

I should have gotten a dog.

You know, I'd like to live here alone like you." "You can't." "Why not?" "If you come I'll be here and you won't be alone. Neither will I." "Well, I mean almost alone.

Friendship is an Algebra test that nobody passes.

A man must love his bear.

Lin, a man has to find a good woman, and when he finds her he has to win her love. Then he has to earn her respect. Then he has to cherish her trust. And then he has to, like, go on doing that for as long as they live. Until they both die. That's what it's all about.

we spoke to none but the few we trusted with our wounded lives.

The one entertainment he allowed himself was a trip to the cheapest cinema, with his workmates, once a week.

It was the kind of closeness that didn't need conversation to sustain itself: quite often we would meet, travel to the gym, work out on the weights, box a few rounds, spend half an hour sparring at karate, and speak no more than ten words to one another.

Yes, Lin, you want me? Prabaker said, popping through the doorway from his eavesdropping post outside.

For people worried about the Great Recession and the uncertainty of what is coming next, the characters of 'Mad Men' are good company.

Nothing worries me in life anymore. When you find that best friend, that love, all your worries kind of go away.

God invented love, and it is therefore perfect, and dogs are better at celebrating this perfection than we are. When in doubt as to how we should feel, we could do far worse than trying to live life like the dogs.

I like to go to parties if I know who's going to be there, and if it's people I want to be with. I don't just go to go. And I always drive myself, because I hate being stuck places - there's nothing worse that going out and then being stuck!

On even the worst days, when nothing was working at the lab, I knew that at home I would find warmth, peace, companionship, and encouragement. As a consequence, the next day would surely be better.

The idea of losing your best friend, basically, is the worst thing in world.