Quotes About Companionship

A good friendship—like this one with Hallie—endured. It sustained you during times of crisis. It was there for you during the good times and the bad.

We all want to be loved, it's a basic human being

After all, it wan't every day that someone got adopted by a dog.

Still, he'd kept up his membership in the Gun Club. Had taken the girls hunting every chance he could. And still went everywhere with Odysseus—having retired Penelope the day they were married, for Georgie was now closest to his heart.

He never promised life's journey wouldn't be hard. He just promised to take the journey with you. If you'll let Him. And if you do, He'll help you see that life's troubles, as well as the joys, are all His gifts. You just need the courage to open each and every gift and be thankful for the lessons they each contain.

We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.

The three of us had formed a group based on something erroneous, some basic misunderstanding that hadn't yet come to light, and so we kept on in one another's company, going to bars and having conversations.

He was a man who knew he'd come in after a long day and had found his shade (Irma)

She was his wife, mother, best friend, sister, lover, and priest.

Yes, yes," the warden whispered. "'My very chains and I grew friends.

We all die alone...... I could have helped her with the dying.

all he wanted was to not be alone, but he knew there was no getting rescued from that

I'm alone," Angie had told me a month ago. "No, you're not." "You're not alone," I said, my arms wrapped around her from behind. "Yes, I am. And all your holding and all your love can't change that right now.

Pensai che se Teddy fosse stato lì al mio fianco, anche lui avrebbe visto il ratto. L'avrebbe visto eccome. E vi dirò un'altra cosa. Teddy? Lui avrebbe applaudito.

Only marriage combines all three forms of companionship - spouse is family, best friend, and permanent companion. This is why it is widely held that while the death of a child is the most painful loss, the death of a spouse is the most disorienting one.

One way to test whether you have chosen your friends wisely is to ask yourself why they are your friends. If your only answer is that you like them and they are fun to be with (certainly important components of friendship), you probably haven't given consideration to their values. Or try this: what case could you make to people who have never met your friends to prove that your friends are good people?

But the human being is a social creature. We don't merely want companionship, we need it to survive.

The bad may have money, power, and fame, but they do not have friends (though they may well have sycophants).

There are a few people who tell me that they are so used to a solitary life that they will die alone, but even here I advise them that if they are thinking of self-deliverance the chances of the action not being botched are much better if a friend is present.

No wonder he was so good with horses, I thought blearily, feeling his fingers rubbing gently behind my ears, listening to the soothing, incomprehensible speech. If I were a horse, I'd let him ride me anywhere.

Ye need not be scairt of me, he said softly. Nor anyone here, so long as I'm with ye. - Jaime

The rest of the journey passed uneventfully, if you consider it uneventful to ride fifteen miles on horseback through rough country at night, frequently without benefit of roads, in company with kilted men armed to the teeth, and sharing a horse with a wounded man. At least we were not set upon by highwaymen, we encountered no wild beasts, and it didn't rain. By the standards I was becoming used to, it was quite dull.

I didn't want to tell the story of what makes two people come together, although that's a theme of great power and universality. I wanted to find out what it takes for two people to stay together for fifty years -- or more. I wanted to tell not the story of courtship, but the story of marriage.

I always wake when you do, Sassenach; I sleep ill without ye by my side.