Companionship Quotes

“When, that evening, Vatanen slowly ski’d back from Vittumainen Ghyll to Laahkima Gorge, accompanied by his hare, he no longer thought about Kaartinen’s strange world. There was a half-moon, and the stars were glimmering faintly in the frozen evening. He had his own world, this one, and it was fine to be here, living alone in one’s own way. The hare ambled silently along the trail ahead of the skier, like a pathfinder. Vatanen sang to it.”
― Arto Paasilinna, The Year of the Hare

“Companionship, love, and support are everywhere and ever-present. They are the natural outflow of divinity. The greater our sense of primary divine connection, the more easily these beautiful life resources will be attracted into our existence. How could it be otherwise since we reflect not our own but Life’s excellent, appealing, and valuable qualities?”
― Donna Goddard, The Love of Being Loving

“She was travelling with a bunch of strangers, whose lives were a mystery to her. She wondered if the others were thinking over such things, this essential unknowing of their own companions, but then concluded that this is perhaps always the way.”
― Nikola Stefan, Tale of Tales – Part I: A Strange Bunch

“We don’t say ‘I love you’
To those we really love.
Only to those we are deceiving
Or wish to console…”
― Louis Yako, أنا زهرة برية [I am a Wildflower]

“True friendship is the greatest wealth man can possess and one of his rarest and most valuable assets.”
― Giannis Delimitsos

“If we fear people who can shadow us, we will stay with those who do not give off any light.”
― Luigina Sgarro

“I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon. I cannot understand the love affair.”
― Gore Vidal

“Getting married is no guarantee of companionship and care for life. Neither is having kids. Life in this tragic and fallen world is fraught for all of us. No one situation provides any ultimate security. No matter our station in life, we live with uncertainty.”
― Sam Allberry, 7 Myths about Singleness

“I wish to walk arm in arm, hand in hand without your fears pervading, without my feeling that others are staring. I wish to lose the fog and retain you, your radiance, your strength, your essence.”
― Scott C. Holstad, Shadows Before the Maiming

“These are the so-called "fair-weather" friendships, one who is chosen for the sake of utility will be satisfactory only so long as he is useful. Hence prosperous mean are blockaded by troops of friends; but those who have failed stand amid vast loneliness their friends fleeing from the very crisis which is to test their worth.”
― Seneca, Letters From A Stoic | Moral Letters To Lucilius

“No good is enjoyable to possess without a companion.”
― Margaret Graver, Seneca: Fifty Letters of a Roman Stoic

“Man and woman are meant to be together.”
― Steven Magee

“You are so brave.” Ari pressed her hand to his beautiful head, stroking a finger over the ridge of his nose, his cheekbone, his sleeping eyelid. “I can’t be brave without you.”
― Allyson S. Barkley, A Vision in Smoke

“I’ve spent a lot of my time alone, and I have learned to treat myself as if I were a family. I give myself dinner at night. I give myself breakfast in the morning. I like the process of deciding what to eat and putting it together and seeing how it works, and I like to experiment, and I like to eat. There’s nothing lonelier than some guy alone in the kitchen eating Chinese food out of the carton.
“But cooking yourself a meal,” Susan said, “and sitting down to eat it with the table set, and maybe a fire in the fireplace . . .”
“And a ball game on . . .”
“And a half bottle of wine, perhaps.”
I nodded.
Susan smiled, the way she does when her face seems to get brighter.
“You are the most self-sufficient man I have ever known,” she said.”
― Robert B. Parker, Pastime

“If, as a companion, you just try not to be harmful, if you are not helpful either, you might still be harmful.”
― Criss Jami

“Sure, we’re both on our own, but now we’re on our own together. Sometimes I wonder if I rescued him or if he rescued me. Maybe it doesn’t matter.”
― C.s. robertson, The Undiscovered Deaths of Grace McGill

“Marra thumped the pillow and then gave up. 'Fenris?'

'Yes?'

'I don't know how to ask this without giving you completely the wrong idea.'

'All right?'

'Do you remember on the road, when we slept back-to-back?'

He did not answer, but she heard the bed creak, and then the indignant snuffle of Bonedog being nudged out of the way. Her own bed sagged as Fenris sat on the edge of it. Marra scooted up against the wall to give him room.

His back was as solid and warm as she remembered. She sighed and felt something unclench, although whether it was in her jaw or her gut or her soul, she couldn't say.

'You're a saint,' she mumbled, tugging the blanket up around her shoulder.

'You have no idea,' muttered Fenris.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

“The best thing about having a partner in love is the companionship that comes with it. It's like having a constant support system and a shoulder to lean on.”
― Ajaz Ahmad Khawaja

“The magic of Time may feel insignificant when held unto others, but it's more powerful than you may yet realise. You possess the gift of life lived in the moment, the power to pause and see the beauty and wonder all around you, so you may better remember who you serve and why.

And in those frozen solitary moments, it serves to remind you that even the greatest of rulers can only truly move forward and effect change in the world synchronicity with those around us.

This lesson - the lesson of companionship and trust - I derived great joy in watching you master. it is, perhaps, the greatest gift I could have given you.”
― Elle Cosimano, Seasons of Chaos

“Enduring companionship, be it friends, soldiers at arms, families, or clans, is made firm and strong under the duress of shared hardship.”
~ Igma – Goddess of Wisdom”
― C. Borden, Echoes of Dragons

“Samaritan's Path by Stewart Stafford

On a solo trek on a dusty road,
A volunteer picked up my load,
Heavy things of weight and idea,
Hoisted aloft, a relaxing panacea.

We ran the clock down without ennui,
With songs, jokes, and inflated history,
Scenery and animals to comment upon,
Stones kicked as the sun still shone.

In dusk's bowing light, a reticent parting,
A trip over, happy memories restarting,
With a last handshake, wave, and smile,
We headed for home on the closing mile.

© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“We are happy, and we are lucky. We are neither political nor inclined to likecompany. Repeat: we are happy, and we are lucky. We make for each other: companionship, intimacy, affection, rhapsody. Whenever I hear of something horrible, I want to cover M.'s ears. Whenever I see something beautiful, and my heart is shouting, it is M. I run to, to tell about it.”
― Mary Oliver, Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems

“...we might try to assuage our loneliness and fears by sleeping with partners we don't love or respect -- sometimes men who won't even remember our names -- as we use sex addictively to fill the emotional hole. But we never walk away from sex Scott free. Sex is more personal to us than to men, and there's a reason for that. The results of preliminary research suggests that when we have orgasms, our bodies release oxytocin, the same chemical that's produced during breast-feeding, and that heightens feelings of bonding.

As [Niravi] Payne explains in The Language of Fertility, which is coauthored with Brenda Richardson, her work is based on research that validates thoughts and beliefs can affect functioning in cells, tissues and organs. In recent decades, scientists have learned that much of human perception is based not on information flowing into the brain from the external world, but on what the brain based on previous experience, expects to happen next. That means if we unconsciously believe that sex is "shameful" or something to be feared, that belief can be reflected in our reproductive organs by throwing our hormonal functioning, which regulates pregnancy, or in our immune system, which governs our ability to maintain a pregnancy, or even in our menstrual flow, which if malfunctioning can lead to fibroid tumors.

Like all feelings, sexual feelings are energy, and when energy is suppressed, it builds and burst out in destructive ways.

Clinical psychologist Darlene Powell Hopson has said she teaches her clients an invocation that in, part, she learned from fellow author Iyanla Vanzant: 'Dear God, I love you and being your child. You made me a sexual being and I want to experience closeness and fulfillment with my partner. My soul yearns for the pleasure and satisfaction of being spiritually and physically intimate with my partner....Please continue to remain with me and in me, forever.”
― Brenda Richardson, What Mama Couldn't Tell Us About Love: Healing the Emotional Legacy of Racism by Celebrating Our Light Paperback September 16, 2014

“It is no secret I tell you, nor am I ashamed to declare it: I have liked to be with you, to see you, to speak with you always.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Some people love their animals more than their kids!”
― Steven Magee

“Companionship is commitment to one another.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“I know you are offended with me,” he said penitently, “for fooling that painted-up wax doll; but what can a fellow do?”
“Since you ask me, I do think it an ungenerous and—well—cowardly thing to hold one’s intellectual inferiors up to ridicule in that way; it’s like laughing at a cripple, or—”
― E L Voynich

“When two sympathetic hearts meet in the marriage state, matrimony may be called a happy life. When such a wedded pair find thorns in their path, each will be eager, for the sake of the other, to tear them from the root. Where they have to mount hills, or wind a labyrinth, the most experienced will lead the way, and be a guide to his companion. Patience and love will accompany them in their journey, while melancholy and discord they leave far behind. -- Hand in hand they pass on from morning till evening, through their summer's day, till the night of age draws on, and the sleep of death overtakes the one. The other, weeping and mourning, yet looks forward to the bright region where he shall meet his still surviving partner, among trees and flowers which themselves have planted, in fields of eternal verdure.”
― Inchbald Elizabeth Inchbald

“A relationship has its advantages.”
― Steven Magee

“They had to try and appreciate their time together without putting too much thought into why it was so precious, how it could evaporate at any moment and leave them marooned once more in their separate threads of reality.”
― Cliff Jones Jr., Dreck