Quotes About Companionship

This may be the primary purpose of dogs: to restore our sense of wonder and to help us maintain it, to make us consider that we should trust our intuition as they trust theirs and to help us realize that a thing known intuitively can be as real as anything known by material experience.

After six years of solitude, sharing a meal and conversation with someone was a pleasure. More than a pleasure, her hospitality and companionship were also affecting to a surprising extent, so that at times I was overcome by emotion so intense, I couldn't have spoken without revealing how profoundly I was moved.

With friends, this is a cool world; without friends, it would be unbearably cold.

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself. —Josh Billings

We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us. —Maurice Maeterlinck

No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you have with a good dog. Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself.

Tommy and Scootie locked eyes. Only minutes ago, he wouldn't have believed that he could ever have felt such a kinship with the Labrador as he felt now.

I will hold her hand at the end, and I will pass soon after, for we are one heart, and neither of us would be of use without the other.

For the first time in three years, Travis Cornell felt needed, felt a deep connection with another living creature. For the first time in three years, he had a reason to live. He

Dogs know we need to give affection as much as they need to receive it. They were the first therapists; they've been in practice for thousands of years.

Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one is a life diminished.

He continued to stroke its back and scratch its ears, but after a minute or two he realized he was seeking something from the dog that it could not provide: meaning, purpose, relief from despair.

I had no idea where he went when he was not with me. Perhaps he enjoyed exploring new places as much as did any living dog, and went off to wander previously unvisited neighborhoods of Magic Beach.

No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you have with a good dog.

Lem searched for the words to convey what he felt. As he found the language to describe what the dog had meant to him, his chest grew tight with emotion.

All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog.

No matter how attentive their people were, dogs spent more time waiting than doing.

the worst of all miseries to afflict the human heart is loneliness.

Sometimes I thought I couldn't wait, but then I always could. Because she gave me so much else and everything she gave me was more than a thousand other girls could ever give. All she wanted was love with respect, respect was so important to her, and I could give her that. I don't know what she saw in me, you know? But I could give her that much.

the only companion with which he felt comfortable was sorrow.

that she would have steadied him, that with her he would have found greater intellectual and emotional depths in himself than he would ever discover alone.

Bella was six years old. She was a yellow Labrador retriever.

In the relationship between humanity and dogs, some mutual destiny existed that had not yet been fulfilled.

This was the sign of a strong friendship, Nichole thought. They were content to be together without having to chat the whole time.