Being Single Quotes

Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us

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.

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

To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and -- in spite of True Romance magazines -- we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely -- at least, not all the time -- but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

Being single doesn't mean your weak. It means your strong enough to wait for what you deserve.

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

Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place.

Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.

No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos.

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.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.

Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them. -Carrie Bradshaw

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.

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

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.

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.

Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.

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.

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

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

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.

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

Being single also sucks sometimes because you're single.

The strongest force in the universe is a human being living consistently with his identity.

Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.

Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self.

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.

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.

The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest.

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.

You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self.

You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. Of all the people you will know in the lifetime, you are the only one you will never leave or lose.

We are betrayed by what is false within

But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.

Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.

It's better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.

Winning isn't the end of the world

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?

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

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world.

Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.

I want to be better at being single, and I want to be better at feeling okay about being single. I don't need a boyfriend.

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.

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.

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.

One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.