Rick Bass Quotes

Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down.

You know, the man's best friend is his dog... if he's got nothing else.

Because of the dog’s joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift.

We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.

I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.

When an eighty-five pound mammal licks your tears away, then tries to sit on your lap, it's hard to feel sad.

Dogs are one of those things that make you happy and make you wonder.

The vital function that pets fulfill in this world hasn't been fully recognized. They keep millions of people sane.

I went through a period in my life when I had no friends, when the phone never rang, when I thought I would die from loneliness. I know that the real blessing here isn't that I have a book published, but that I have so many people to thank.

I am not looking for a friend; if I want a friend I'd buy a dog.

When you feel lousy, puppy therapy is indicated.

It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being.

I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be.

Pets are always a great help in times of stress. And in times of starvation too, o'course.

I've definitely taken a lot of consolation from animals in my life. There have been times when I've been really sad, and they gave solace and comfort and companionability more than a person.

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

Whenever he was out of luck and a little down-hearted, he would fall to mourning over the loss of a wonderful cat he used to own (for where women and children are not, men of kindly impulses take up with pets, for they must love something)

It might be better - more comfortable - to have a dog and two cats. All the love is focused on the cats and the dog. Am I right or wrong here? Have you seen it? At the end of this marriage, comes old age and loneliness.

To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world--without friends or country, home or kindred.

I am looking for a human.

I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen. When it does at last dawn on a man that you really want to hear about his business, the look that comes over his face is something to see.

Happiness is a warm puppy.

Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

You can't live entirely alone. You have to have some kind of a support system.