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Quotes About Companionship

I have a Lab, it's fun to hang out and hike with the dog, people come up to him, and pet him, it's fun.
~ George Eads
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined together to strengthen each other in all labour, to minister to each other in all sorrow, to share with each other in all gladness, to be one with each other in the silent unspoken memories?
~ George Eliot
What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life- to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories ...
~ George Eliot
Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
~ George Eliot
Animals are such agreeable friends — they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
~ George Eliot
No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
~ George Eliot
Animals are such agreeable friends?they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
~ George Eliot
Where the hell would I go without you, Kate? No matter where I went, you would be there in my head. I would miss you every moment of my life.
~ Ilona Andrews
There are some women who'd be offended in my place," I told him. "I'm not helpless and I turn into a monster." "Maybe I'm afraid and I want company." He pretended to shiver. "I may need a big strong monster to protect me. You wouldn't leave a defenseless attractive man out on the streets alone, would you?
~ Ilona Andrews
Thank you," I said to Linus. "Of course. This is what I'm here for. It's my function as your witness." He grinned again. "Besides, things around you have a way of turning interesting. I do hate to be bored.
~ Ilona Andrews
Three years ago, on a night like this I would have been driving my old car home alone, praying it didn't die a noble death in some snow drift. When I rolled up to the house, it would be dark. My heat would be off to save money, my bed would be cold, and if I wanted to tell someone about my day, I'd have to talk to my sword and pretend it listened. Slayer was an excellent weapon, but it never laughed at my jokes.
~ Ilona Andrews
I loved that he called me on my bullshit. I laughed at his jokes and I loved that he laughed at mine. I loved that no matter where I was he would come for me. That he would always be there, helping me cut my way through the mess that was life.
~ Ilona Andrews
Would you like to sit in my nasty medicated bath with me?
~ Ilona Andrews
For a time you can be alone and doing fine and never give a thought to living any other way and then you meet someone and suddenly you become lonely.
~ Ilona Andrews
Beast lay by my feet, gnawing on a bone Sean had given her. Through the day she had upgraded his status from kill on sight to suspicious to the man with delicious treats who can't be trusted.
~ Ilona Andrews
Stay," he said. "We can compare notes on murderers. It will be fun.
~ Ilona Andrews
I sat onto the sofa and almost sank into it. I'd need help getting up. Curran sprawled next to me. "This is nice," he said. "Mm-hm." "We should get one for the living room." "We'd get blood on it.
~ Ilona Andrews
Why do you always hang out with weirdos?" "It's her special talent," Curran said. "She attracts us like bees to honey.
~ Ilona Andrews
Non è che i poveri fossero più impauriti dei ricchi o più attaccati alla vita, ma avevano, più di loro, la tendenza a vivere in gruppo, avevano bisogno gli uni degli altri e di sostenersi a vicenda, di piangere o di ridere insieme.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
La sua vita trascorreva in una continua alternanza tra il desiderio di solitudine e quello di compagnia. «Nessuno come me avrà sprecato tante energie nella conversazione più futile, e nessuno avrà tanto detestato la gente»
~ Irene Nemirovsky
What a test that is: more than devotion, admiration, passion. If you long and long for someone's company you love them.
~ Iris Murdoch
male company, sheer complicit male company: the complicity of males which is like, indeed is, a kind of complicity in crime, in chauvinism, in getting away with things, in just gluttonously enjoying the present even if hell is all around.
~ Iris Murdoch
He was glad she had come; she was for him, as he for her, 'another place'.
~ Iris Murdoch
There's all the kids at home, and my mother and brother. And the men I pick up. But you live alone anyhow, don't you? It ain't people that count. It's having someone you really like.
~ Irving Stone