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Quotes About Companionship

Caleb is here in the cabin, sitting in the middle of my couch.
~ Paula McLain
We were surrounded by people on the platform, but we were entirely alone.
~ Paula McLain, The Paris Wife
Show me your friends and I will tell you your future
~ Unknown
I don't want to die," whispered Marina. "and not feel just once what you feel." She struggled for her breath. "Just once in my life, Tania!" "Tanechka..." she whispered. What does it feel like?" Tatiana continued to gently caress Marina's forehead. "It feels," she whispered, "as if you're not alone.
~ Paullina Simons
I have maybe a half-hour before the next surgery. Want to go and get a cup of coffee?" What I want is to meander eight kilometres down the canals with you from Kirov to your Fifth Soviet door. I want to get on the tram with you, the bus with you, sit in the Italian Gardens with you. That is what I want. I will take the cup of coffee in your hospital cafeteria.
~ Paullina Simons
Daughters are supposed to be friends to their mothers in their old age.
~ Paullina Simons
Through contact with the virtuous even the wicked get reformed, just as a base metal is transmuted by the touch of the philosopher's stone. On the other hand, if by mischance good men fall into evil company, they maintain their noble character like the gem on the hood of a serpent.
~ Unknown
Whoa! Hey, what are you doing? I'm attaching myself to you. Because I'm a kid. Spoil me.
~ Unknown
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
~ Pearl S. Buck
La soledad siempre está ahí. La siento, la toco, hablo con ella. Forma parte de mi vida. La soledad es inevitable. Y ayuda. Me concentro más. Soy más yo cuando convivimos bien apretaditos: la soledad y yo. Nos adoramos. No podría vivir sin la soledad.
~ Pedro Juan Gutierrez
Fue un alivio ir mirando el día de a dos.
~ Unknown
I had a cat I could not see, Because it stayed in back of me. It was a very loyal pet- It's sad we never really met. I had a nice pet Who I never met, Remember it always stayed behind me. And I'm sure it was a cat, too.
~ Unknown
I don't play solitaire. It seems so lonely, somehow.
~ Unknown
What's your dog's name?" "Oh, he ain't got no name." "Why's that?" "I don't like names," the man said, looking down at his pet. "How do you call it?" Jim asked. "Call it?
~ Percival Everett
Basil was happy to have me home. He considered the manner in which I ignored him a kind of attention. He and I were not so different.
~ Percival Everett
No more alone through the world's wilderness, Although I trod the paths of high intent, I journeyed now: no more companionless
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
bond of sympathy between him and Jock,
~ Unknown
It's more important to know whom you are called to be with than what you are called to do.
~ Unknown
Wiggy & I were drug buddies. There is no tighter compact for friendship. There is no greater potential for deceit.
~ Pete Townshend
At this moment we are as close as people can ever hope to be. Our hearts have beaten together, our bodies have merged. Right now I know what love is. I know how it feels to be not completely alone. Right now I know you as I have never known anybody else.
~ Peter Abrahams
Regarding his friend's insight after losing her spouse to cancer: "She told me she had plenty of people to do things with but nobody to do nothing with.
~ Unknown
Remember what we wrote? 'And just as I cannot imagine how I survived the past without you... I cannot imagine a future without you.' Remember? Well, I'm the future without her, buddy boy, and I can tell you right now that it's not something you're going to relish.
~ Peter David
They had fallen into that instant, easy friendship which feels as though it had begun before any of your memories and will last until you are so old that the humped veins on the back of your hands show dark blue-purple through your wax-white skin.
~ Unknown
He commented to me," Schur remembers, "how fortunate he was, that he has found so many valuable friends." Anna had just left the room, which
~ Peter Gay