quotes about Being Single
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Everybody thinks theyll never get married at your age. You think you can go on all your life being single, but you suddenly find out that you cant.
-- Alan Sillitoe -
I don't mind being single. In fact, I like it.
-- Alana StewartSource : "Is ‘I Do’ Supposed To Be Forever?" by Alana Stewart, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 17, 2013.
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Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.
-- Andre Gide -
It is quite lovely being single, and I much prefer it.
-- Anna Held -
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Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.
-- Antonio Machado -
I like going out and I like being single, but a growing part of me would rather just stay home, cook food with someone I really like, and do nothing.
-- Aziz AnsariSource : "Aziz Ansari gets candid about love: “elusive and sadly ephemeral”". Interview with TashaR, www.avclub.com. February 13, 2013.
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Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.
-- Billy CrystalSource : "Fictional character: Mitch Robbins". "City Slickers", www.imdb.com. June 7, 1991.
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I'm really enjoying being single. I'm not even looking to meet anybody, which is so freeing.
-- Candace Bushnell -
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The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. Take your own color in the pattern and be just that.
-- Charles R. Brown -
The trouble is not really in being alone, it's being lonely. One can be lonely in the midst of a crowd, don't you think?
-- Christine Feehan -
The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that is something which is important for me to learn to do.
-- Damon Hill -
I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don't see things clearly as long as you're still involved.
-- Dido Armstrong -
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I like relationships and being in love, but I also like being single - you have to embrace all those different things.
-- Dominic Monaghan -
A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.
-- Eileen Caddy -
When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.
-- Elizabeth Gilbert -
If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.
-- Elizabeth I -
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I love being single. I can come and go as I please and stay out as late as I want to.
-- Eric Dickerson -
Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.
-- Eric Hoffer -
I'm dating a woman now who, evidently, is unaware of it.
-- Garry Shandling -
We are betrayed by what is false within
-- George MeredithSource : 'Modern Love' (1862) st. 43
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If you are blessed, you are blessed, whether you are married or single.
-- Greta GarboSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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It's when you're not looking for anything that something winds up coming along. It's about learning how to be just with yourself and that you don't need to be in a relationship. You don't need anyone to fulfill you.
-- Hayden PanettiereSource : "10 On-Point Things Celebrities Have Said About Being Single" By Brittany Wong, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 3, 2013.
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Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
-- Henri Frederic Amiel -
I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
-- Hermann Hesse -
Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.
-- Ho Chi Minh -
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
-- Honore de Balzac -
Keep your heart right, even when it is sorely wounded.
-- J. C. Macaulay -
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People should get married because they have finally seen the folly of being single: "Oh, this is all just kind of a bad magic trick. I just keep bending over to reach for this wallet on a string. How much longer am I gonna do that?"
-- Jerry Seinfeld -
Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.
-- Jim Bishop -
I need relationships, but sometimes when I am in one I feel claustrophobic. It is about feeling that I still have my freedom, that I have choices. I don't look back on the past because I like to live in the present. I know this makes some people think I probably never cared, but I need my freedom and I like to keep moving.
-- Juliette BinocheSource : Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com
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Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
-- Julius Charles HareSource : Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.486
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Being single is about celebrating and appreciating your own space that you're in.
-- Kelly Rowland -
My mom always said I liked to stir the pot with a glittering spoon.
-- Kris Carr -
Women are the victims of war... as widows they've faced the trauma of being single parents and livelihoods of families are affected. A lot of gender-related problems come up in terms of health, education, domestic violence, etc.
-- Kumari Jayawardena -
Is being single hard? It depends where your mind is. If you are focused, being single is an enjoyable experience, but if you hate being alone, you'll hate being single. I think it depends on the individual are where they are in life.
-- Lauren London -
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People would be a lot better off if they'd enjoy being single.
-- Lewis Black -
The part that's difficult is being single, at 41, after 10 years of marriage and two kids. That's like having a bunch of money in a currency of a country that doesn't exist anymore.
-- Louis C. K. -
Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.
-- Louis KronenbergerSource : "Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life". Book by Louis Kronenberger, 1954.
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Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.
-- Mae WestSource : Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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If you help yourself to the benefits of being married when you are single, you're likely to help yourself to the benefits of being single when you're married.
-- Manis FriedmanSource : "A Breath of Life: Feminism in the American Jewish Community". Book by Sylvia Barack Fishman, 1995.
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Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.
-- Marianne Moore -
Being single is not easy. But neither is being married. They are just difficult in different ways as God uses everything in our life to make us more like Jesus, who happened to live a perfect life while single.
-- Mark Driscoll -
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Being single is pretty good. It's a nice sense of irresponsibility.
-- Michael Douglas -
Many gamblers think they're being singled out by fate as a target for cruel jokes. They feel they alone in all the universe are being tortured, experimented upon by some unknown force.
-- Mike Caro -
I honestly think being single's great. Being in a relationship's great. It's all about the timing.
-- Mila Kunis -
Being single doesn't mean your weak. It means your strong enough to wait for what you deserve.
-- Niall Horan -
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I don’t need a boyfriend to be happy. If I meet someone and I want to be with him, then I will be. I’m very confident in being single until I find someone who I’m extremely crazy about and who I want to devote my time and love to. Until then, I will just be on my own and I am totally fine with that,
-- Nina Dobrev -
Being single is only sad if you have a problem with your own company. I'm content with mine.
-- Olga KurylenkoSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
-- Oscar Wilde -
I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single.
-- Penelope Cruz -
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I think it will be better when I get involved with someone again, because I made this time for me. I haven't really been single for a while, and I think it's been good for me, to lose the fear to be like this.
-- Penelope Cruz -
It's better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.
-- Phil McGraw -
The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
-- Rabindranath Tagore -
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The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.
-- Rainn Wilson -
All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.
-- Robert BrowningSource : Richard Cronin, Robert Browning, Dorothy McMillan (2015). “Robert Browning”, p.265, Oxford University Press, USA
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There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.
-- Samuel Johnson -
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Being single used to mean that nobody wanted you. Now it means you're pretty sexy and you're taking your time deciding how you want your life to be and who you want to spend it with.
-- Sarah Jessica Parker -
Being single can pave the way for new opportunities.
-- Selena Gomez -
I'm not cynical about marriage or romance. I enjoyed being married. And although being single was fun for a while, there was always the risk of dating someone who'd owned a lunch box with my picture on it.
-- Shaun Cassidy -
Being single is not as bad as everyone likes to make it seem!
-- Shay Mitchell -
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If you're comfortable with yourself-which everyone can get to, to some extent-that's when you start getting into who is your real self.
-- Shirley MacLaine -
If you have to ask someone to change, to tell you they love you, to bring wine to dinner, to call you when they land, you can't afford to be with them.
-- Sloane CrosleySource : Sloane Crosley (2010). “How Did You Get This Number”, p.132, Granta Books
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I enjoy being single, but I loved being married.
-- Stephanie Mills -
If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.
-- Thomas Hardy -
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"Be yourself" is about the worst advice you can give some people.
-- Thomas Lansing MassonSource : "American Treasury, 1455-1955". Book by Clifton Fadiman, p. 791, 1955.
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I'm not single, I'm just wait for my girlfriend to quit playing hide and seek.
-- Tim Walters -
Some people think it's wrong, being single isn't right. But if you hurt the right person, you'll be wrong all your life.
-- TygaSource : Song: Reminded
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Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
-- Voltaire -
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I've been on so many blind dates, I should get a free dog.
-- Wendy Liebman -
Being single doesn't necessarily mean you're available. Sometimes you have to put up a sign that says "Do Not Disturb" on your heart.
-- Wiz Khalifa -
Why is it that people think staying in a bad relationship is better than being single? Don't they know that being single is the first step to finding a great relationship?
-- Jennifer O'Neill -
You don't want to not be single because you're scared of being single.
-- Alia ShawkatSource : "Alia Shawkat" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2016.
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I think there's a level at which you think that there's a reason that you're being singled out, that you're being chosen. As a kid, I was always mistaken for a girl. Before you reach that age where your sexuality starts to display itself, kids can look very androgynous, and I guess I leaned more toward the feminine. All those things were very hard, growing up, because you're trying to create an identity, and you're feeling shameful about the one that you're making. So, I identified with it a lot.
-- Matt ReevesSource : Source: www.denofgeek.com
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[Robert Downey was being singled out for] selective prosecution. He's a sweet guy who never did harm to anyone except himself. He's been doing drugs for 20 years and functioning for 20 years, and in those 20 years there've been hundreds of people who've been getting high constantly and behaved very destructively and have not been arrested. Robert's real problem is he gets caught.
-- James Toback -
Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya.
-- Walter Kaufmann