Quotes about Companionship

All, Pyle? Wait until you're afraid of living ten years alone with no companion and a nursing home at the end of it. THen you'll start running in any direction, even away from that girl in the red dressing-gown, to find someone, anyone, who last until you are through.

When someone is in crisis, don't start by teaching, leveraging, or explaining. Just be with.

I don't miss doing things with her. I miss doing nothing with her.

I like friends who, when you tell them you need a moment alone, know enough not to stray too far.

Sometimes the shortest distance between two points is a winding path walked arm in arm.

An old dog, even more than an old spouse, always feels like doing what you feel like doing.

If God had intended us to be alone, there would be more pleasure in massaging our own shoulders.

We are known to our friends by a look in our eyes that we never see in a mirror.

Even when I'm alone I have real good company — dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I like to be alone now and then, just to think over things and taste them. But I love friendships — and nice, jolly little times with people.

Yes, it's beautiful,' said Gilbert, looking steadily down into Anne's uplifted face, 'but wouldn't it have been more beautiful still, Anne, if there had been no separation or misunderstanding . . . if they had come hand in hand all the way through life, with no memories behind them but those which belonged to each other?

Our library isn't very extensive, said Anne, but every book in it is a friend. We've picked our books up through the years, here and there, never buying one until we had first read it and knew that it belonged to the race of Joseph.

I am grateful that my childhood was spent in a spot where there were many trees, trees of personality, planted and tended by hands long dead, bound up with everything of joy or sorrow that visited our lives. When I have lived with a tree for many years it seems to me like a beloved human companion.