#companions

How we need another soul to cling to. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#companionship #loneliness #need

We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposed to rob us of their companionship. ↗

— James Harvey Robinson

#beliefs #companionship #filled #find #formation

Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions. ↗

— John Green

#books #companionship #dftba #friends #inspiration

When you don't know what you're searching for, you have to look absolutely everywhere. ↗

— Holly Black

#love #searching #love

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough ↗

— Walt Whitman

#contentment #family #family

As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with clarity, I became more and more alienated from that which my companions held, or professed to hold. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#became #began #clarity #companions #discover

I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with. ↗

— Mary Ann Shaffer

#marriage #silence #talk #life

When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship. ↗

— Lew Wallace

#companionship #lonely #people #stoop

People leave imprints on our lives, shaping who we become in much the same way that a symbol is pressed into the page of a book to tell you who it comes from. Dogs, however, leave paw prints on our lives and our souls, which are as unique as fingerprints in every way. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#bonding #companionship #dogs #experience #friendship

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions. ↗

— Pierre Charron

#constant #contrived #directly #opposite #pain