Companionship Quotes

“Padra put a paw on his shoulder as they trudged slowly across the sand together.
“It’s unusual for an otter to take on a squirrel for a page,” he said, “and I’m a poor substitute for Crispin.”
Urchin had been feeling that he would never be happy again. Now hope flared. “I can swim a bit, sir, if that helps,” he said eagerly.”
― M.I. McAllister, Urchin of the Riding Stars

“I love tranquil solitude,
And such society
As is quiet, wise, and good.

Song”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley

“How do you fill it?’ Connor asks. 'How do you fill the … the space?’
And to Cam’s own amazement, he has an answer. 'Bit by bit,’ he says, 'and not alone.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnDivided

“Many treat friendships and other human connections as if they are things they can store in a closet where they can come back one day and find them unaltered. Alas, human connections do not survive with this mentality.”
― Louis Yako

“I didn't know if the universe actively taught lessons. But if it did, the lesson was that I could not handle what I thought I could handle. The lesson was that I didn't need to act out with Theo to learn the lesson. I didn't have to suffer again. The suffering of others, Claire and now Diana, could remind me of my own suffering: the suffering of the past and my potential future suffering. Maybe this is why we did things in groups. Maybe this is why people had friends: so we could see ourselves and our own insanity in them.”
― Melissa Broder, The Pisces

“I am convinced that... in the struggle for righteousness, man has cosmic companionship”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Then something moved on the hall floor, just outside the bars. Her eyes swung there. Sunday Justice sat on his haunches staring at her dark eyes with his green ones.
Her heart raced. Locked up alone all these weeks, and now this creature could step wizardlike between the bars. Be with her. Sunday Justice broke the stare and looked down the hall, toward the inmates' talk. Kya was terrified that he would leave her and walk to them. But he looked back at her, blinked in obligatory boredom, and squeezed easily between the bars. Inside.
Kya breathed out. Whispered, "Please stay."
Taking his time, he sniffed his way around the cell, researching the damp cement walls, the exposed pipes, and the sink, all the while compelled to ignore her. A small crack in the wall was the most interesting to him. She knew because he flicked his thoughts on his tail. He ended his tour next to the small bed. Then, just like that, he jumped onto her lap and circled, his large white paws finding soft purchase on her thighs. Kya sat frozen, her arms slightly raised, so as not to interfere with his maneuvering. Finally, he settled as though he had nested here every night of his life. He looked at her. Gently she touched his head, then scratched his neck. A loud purr erupted like a current. She closed her eyes at such easy acceptance. A deep pause in a lifetime of longing.
Afraid to move, she sat stiff until her leg cramped, then shifted slightly to stretch her muscles. Sunday Justice, without opening his eyes, slid off her lap and curled up next to her side. She lay down fully clothed, and they both nestled in. She watched him sleep, then followed. Not falling toward a jolt, but a drifting, finally, into an empty calm.
Once during the night, she opened her eyes and watched him sleeping on his back, forepaws stretched one way, hind paws the other.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“She stared out at the gloaming and didn't care that it might be the last twilight she ever saw. She cared only that she had spent too much of her twenty-six years alone, with no one at her side to share the sunsets, the starry skies, the turbulent beauty of storm clouds. She wished that she had reached out to people more, instead of retreating inward, wished that she had not made her heart into a sheltering closet. Now, when nothing mattered any more, when the insight couldn't do her any damn good at all, she realized that there was less hope of survival alone than with others. She'd been acutely aware that terror, betrayal, and cruelty had a human face, but she had not sufficiently appreciated that courage, kindness, and love had a human face as well. Hope wasn't a cottage industry; it was neither a product that she could manufacture like needlepoint samplers nor a substance that she could secrete, in her cautious solitude, like a maple tree producing the essence of syrup. Hope was to be found in other people, by reaching out, by taking risks, by opening her fortress heart.”
― Dean Koontz, Intensity

“A part of me did not want Richard Parker to die at all, because if he died I would be left alone with despair, a foe even more formidable than a tiger.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“We’ll create our own love story. I can promise you that.”
― Beena Khan, The Weight on Skin

“No creature is ever without the need to seek out other beings. Whether for companionship, enjoyment, knowledge, or nourishment, life is reliant on life.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, The Magic of Nature: Meditations & Spells to Find Your Inner Voice

“He wanted to know when he was going to kiss the same person goodnight when the lights went out and then hello again the next morning when the sun came up. He wanted to know how he was ever going to make that happen.”
― Neil Bartlett, The Disappearance Boy

“A hundred hearts would be too few to carry all my love for you.”
― Beena Khan, The Weight on Skin

“It is better to be lonely than to wish to be alone.”
― Margaret Deland

“Our fear of others only ends when we bring them in from the terrifying darkness to our fireside and share our bread and companionship with them. Then, and only then, may we find the light together.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Associate with companions who are in harmony with the Dharma and who don't promote disturbing emotions. Keeping company with unwholesome friends, you cannot possibly avoid being influenced by their evil ways. That is the root of going astray […] Tsogyal, if you want to avoid this way of going astray, cut your ties to superfluous companions and remain in solitude!”
― Padmasambhava, Advice from the Lotus-Born: A Collection of Padmasambhava's Advice to the Dakini Yeshe Tsogyal and Other Close Disciples

“Companionship through rain and shine, without any label, just for the joy of being together, is a blessing; it is truly among the greatest miracles you can experience in Life!”
― AVIS Viswanathan

“Retirement can be the loneliest period in life. It is a period in which one suddenly feels irrelevant and like an outcast. Many people only exist insofar as their connection to or validation through their work. Millions of Americans, for the sake of making living, they cannot even afford nurturing relationships with family and friends. Their work schedules keep them totally isolated and lonely. By the time they retire, it suddenly dawns on them that they almost have nobody left now that their coworkers are history.”
― Louis Yako

“Frequenting evil friends is bound to make your own behavior evil;
People of Tingri, abandon any friendships that are negative.
– Padampa Sangye”
― Dilgo Khyentse, The Hundred Verses of Advice: Tibetan Buddhist Teachings on What Matters Most

“Still, I have felt it better to have a dog about the place. They are wonderful creatures.”
― William Hope Hodgson, The House on the Borderland & Other Creepy Stories

“They had become each other’s shadow and even more than that, the true companions who would never part, not even in darkness.”
― Namrata Gupta, The Full Circle

“It was destiny which made them meet and love which kept them together. Together, they lived a
life of their choice and gave companionship a new meaning, to complete a story that was left unfinished decades ago.”
― Namrata Gupta, The Full Circle

“I have been travelling alone for years now and I never needed any companion, but after meeting you, I don’t want to go anywhere alone.”
― Namrata Gupta, The Full Circle

“Make him happy and he will make you happy. She tells herself this often.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“You owe me nothing, Beauty,” he assured me. “Your only onus is to remain; companionship and support were never part of the bargain.”
I laughed, which Beast didn’t seem to like. “No, but companionship and support aren’t usually effective bargaining tools anyway. Too fickle. Too difficult to enforce.”
― Emily Poirier, Beauty and Beast: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“Whether a friend is with you or away from you, continue loving him. 'Umar ibn Ahmad recites a poem of Yazid al-Muhallabi:

If you part from us, may God lead You
to beautiful places.
When you come to us, you are always welcome.
When you go, do not fear that we will ever forget you.
When you come, do not feel that we will ever have
enough of you.

(p. 95)”
― Ibn al-Husayn al-Sulami, The Way of Sufi Chivalry

“Don't marry the person you think you love. Marry the one who can be a good companion.”
― Anoir Ou-Chad

“What did I do?" She turned and looked at him, standing there, wet hair dripping round his face. "What did I do, back there?"
"You got us through."
"I meant-"
"You got us through. That's all.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Before They Are Hanged

“Machines are non-living things, but they still can absorb human attitudes.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“He was simple and yet he was complex in his perception of the other sex. Remembering himself, and how he dealt with females, he often said: 'The easy gals are not for you - they're for themselves; the impossible girls are not for you either - they're for somebody else.”
― Criss Jami