Single Status Quotes:

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

topic: Sexy, Being Single, Mean, Singles, Single Girl

I'm single because I was born that way.

- Mae West

topic: Sarcastic, Witty, Freedom, Singles, Singleness

You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.

- Dr. Seuss

topic: You Choose, Just Believe In Yourself, Inspirational Confidence, Inspirational Student, Inspire Students

I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

- Walt Whitman

topic: Individuality, Atoms, Assuming, Singles, Loving Myself

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

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Music, Loneliness, Being Single, Singles, Lonely Feeling

Today is Valentine's Day - or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day!

- Jay Leno

topic: Funny, Romantic, Valentines Day, Humorous Valentine, Singles

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

- Albert Einstein

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Love, Funny, Life, Insanity And Genius, Stupidity And Ignorance

Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that.

- Julie Delpy

source: "Fast Food Dating Your 2 Cents". Book by Peter Sacco and Jennifer Schott, 2011.

topic: Relationship, Single, Being Alone, Singles, Single Women

Being single is pretty good. It's a nice sense of irresponsibility.

- Michael Douglas

topic: Single, Nice, Being Single, Singles, Irresponsibility

I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.

- Warsan Shire

topic: Lonely, Being Alone, Lovely, Singles, Lonely Women

To love blindly is to love selfishly, because the goal of such love is not the real advantage of the beloved but only the exercise of love in our own souls.

- Thomas Merton

source: Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.3, Shambhala Publications

topic: Real, Being Single, Being Alone, Funny Anti Valentines Day, Anti Valentine

I don't like to be labeled as lonely just because I am alone.

- Delta Burke

source: "5 Things to Love About Being Single" by Whitney Caudill, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 23, 2013.

topic: Single, Lonely, Being Alone, Singles, Like Being Alone

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

topic: Being Single, Mean, Heart, I Am Single, Funny Being Single

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

topic: Being Single, Being Alone, Long, Single Relationship, I Am Single

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

- Calvin Coolidge

source: Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

topic: Persistence, Men, World, Unsuccessful, Solved Problems

If we seek paradise outside ourselves, we cannot have paradise in our hearts.

- Thomas Merton

topic: Being Alone, Heart, Paradise, Singles, I Am Single

I love being single. I can come and go as I please and stay out as late as I want to.

- Eric Dickerson

topic: Being Single, Being Alone, Love Is, Singles, I Am Single

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.

- Shirley MacLaine

topic: Single, Profound, Heartless, Single Girl, Single Man

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Love, Life, Confidence, Humorous Love, Inspirational Romance

Love sucks. Sometimes it feels good. Sometimes it's just another way to bleed.

- Laurell K. Hamilton

source: Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 6-10”, p.1106, Penguin

topic: Love, Valentines Day, Sarcastic, Anita Blake, Funny Anti Love

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

topic: Lonely, Loneliness, Being Single, Loneliness In Life, Eat Pray And Love

I love being single. It's almost like being rich.

- Sue Grafton

source: Sue Grafton (2011). “D is for Deadbeat”, p.17, Pan Macmillan

topic: Single, Rich, Being Single, Single Women, I Am Single

Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Loneliness, Maps, Way, Loneliness In Life, Eat Pray And Love

My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.

- Warsan Shire

topic: Being Alone, Solitude, Feels, Singles, Loneliness And Solitude

It's impossible to say that live art enjoys any single status in the information age--there are versions of live art that are still primarily art-world phenomena, others that appeal to much broader audiences. The Burning Man festival is a case in point--an event featuring performance that is itself a performance, which partakes simultaneously of frontier mythology, a counter-cultural impulse, and popular cultural visibility.

- Philip Auslander

topic: Art, Men, Age, Information Age, Art World

You're born single, you die single, but why not being in a relationship is some special 'single' status, I don't understand. Life is less stress being single, I have to admit.

- Bipasha Basu

topic: Stress, Being Single, Special, Less Stress, Single Status