Quotes About Companionship

we are all, in the private kingdom of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend. Someone who isn't embarrassed by our emotions, or her own, who recognizes that life is short and that all we have to offer, in the end, is love.

Each night the black sky and the bright stars were my stunning companions; occasionally I'd see their beauty and solemnity so plainly that I'd realize in a piercing way that my mother was right. That someday I would be grateful and that in fact I was grateful now, that I felt something growing in me that was strong and real.

What is one boot without the other boot? It is nothing. It is useless, an orphan forevermore, and I could take no mercy on it.

because we are all, in the private kingdom of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend. Someone who isn't embarrassed by our emotions, or her own, who recognizes that life is short and that all we have to offer, in the end, is love.

She loved horses and Hank Williams and had a best friend named Babs.

We didn't exchange a word. Not because we felt so alone in our grief, but because we were so together in it, as if we were one body instead of two.

waiting for a friend to get off

They were the world I could lose myself in when the one I was actually in became too lonely or harsh or difficult to bear.

I want someone special. I want to be loved and to receive love; to have someone there for me. My hunger for this is so great that I fear it's too much to ask anyone for. I'm afraid that if the volunteer coordinator did go out with me, I'd share all this with her at once, and though she'd be compassionate, she'd be scared off because she'd perceive me as needy.

We need books, and Cheryl's books in particular, because we are all, in the private kingdom of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend. Someone who isn't embarrassed by our emotions, or her own, who recognizes that life is short and that all we have to offer, in the end, is love. Radical

I've long believed literature's greatest superpower is how it makes us feel less alone.

You'll have a faithful Indian companion. Girl Friday. Whatever you want. I'll even launder my own irreclaimable socks. You've already told me I'm a terrific conversationalist, and I'm a person you know who's not dead. Think carefully before you turn down an offer like this.

A good friend will bail you out of jail. A best friend will be sitting next to you Saying, 'Damn. We fucked up.

Con Usted al lado, todo es el mejor destino

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and privacy, and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

Except yourself I have never met the man for whom I felt that intimate sympathy (of intellect as well as soul) which is the sole basis of friendship.

Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you. They are not perfect but are always perfect for you.

Faith! he must make his stories shorter, Or change his comrades once a quarter...

I have found out there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

There's nothing wrong with having a tree for a friend.

Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly.

In the cookies of life, friends are the chocolate chips.

Friends are like sprinkles on the cupcake of life.

A partner is someone who makes you more than you are, simply by being by your side.