A number of years ago I had some experience with being alone. For two succeeding years I was alone each winter for eight months at a stretch in the Sierra Nevada mountains on Lake Tahoe. I was the car...
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
(n.) Fellowship; association; the act or fact of keeping company with any one.
The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of l...
Two's a company three's a crowd.
To an eagle or to an owl or to a rabbit, man must seem a masterful and yet a forlorn animal; he has but two friends. In his almost universal unpopularity he points out, with pride, that these two are...
No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
On a day like this, we women would be completely and utterly happy just to have a man hold our cold hands and massage our aching backs. We'd be so blissfully happy we wouldn't know what to do with our...
If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.
When you are in love with someone you want to be near him all the time except when you are out buying things and charging them to him.
We have lived and loved together Through many changing years We have shared each other's gladness And wept each other's tears.
Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not t...
A lot of us are like that—I’m like that, Ed Abbey was like that, and it sounds like this McCandless kid was like that: We like companionship, see, but we can’t stand to be around people for very long....
If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice it until it's missing.
When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves.
There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Love: Two minds without a single thought.
You can't put a price tag on love but you can on all its accessories.
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
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