#companions

A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#companionship #wonder

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#company #privacy #solitude #solitude

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