Single Life Quotes

The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.

In the social equation, the value of a single life is nil; in the cosmic equation, it is infinite... Not only communism, but any political movement which implicitly relies on purely utilitarian ethics, must become a victim to the same fatal error. It is a fallacy as naïve as a mathematical teaser, and yet its consequences lead straight to Goya's Disasters, to the reign of the guillotine, the torture chambers of the Inquisition, or the cellars of the Lubianka.

You know, that single girl life and that sense of isolation - that doesn't leave you just like that. And that's what that song is about. I remember that, and that is imprinted on me, that sense.

Samsara-the Wheel of Existence, literally, the "Perpetual Wandering"-is the name by which is designated the sea of life ever restlessly heaving up and down, the symbol of this continuous process of ever again and again being born, growing old, suffering, and dying. (It) is constantly changing from moment to moment, (as lives) follow continuously one upon the other through inconceivable periods of time. Of this Samsara, a single lifetime constitutes only a vanishingly tiny fraction.

I don't really do that whole 'single life' thing. I'm kind of heads down and get things done.

If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain

What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.

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.

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.

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

A bachelor May thrive by observation on a little, A single life's no burthen: but to draw In yokes is chargeable, and will require A double maintenance.

If a woman hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky.

I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't.

The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure.

Marriage is ridiculous.

One other fact is significant: the domestic feasts and sacrifices of single families, which in David's time must still have been general, gradually declined and lost their importance as social circles widened and life became more public.

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

These various habits of thought, or habitual expressions of life, are all phases of the single life sequence of the individual; therefore a habit formed in response to a given stimulus will necessarily affect the character of the response made to other stimuli. A modification of human nature at any one point is a modification of human nature as a whole.

Books and marriage go ill together.

A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the study of so vast a subject. A time will come when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them.

I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better.

There are so many things that are incompatible with a single life. No one can learn fully in one life the lessons of unbroken health and of bodily sickness, of riches and of poverty, of study and action, of comradeship and isolation, of defiance and of obedience, of virtue and of vice.

I tell you, to be honest, every single one of us, without any exaggeration, every single one of us was 100 percent sure that we would all be... all be martyred, but you know, Allah chooses to take a person's life when he chooses. And we have no control over.

Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman.

I always know where the scissors are.

One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.

If you go back to the first single-cell form of life, it clearly possessed the capacity to receive, to utilize, to store, to transform, and to transmit information.

I'm just mystified and fascinated by women, and I'm still single. Hence all of that, and the fact that I celebrate them so much, I understand that I'm unevolved at this exact moment to share my life with one. I wouldn't inflict that upon anyone yet. But, I'm getting closer.

I love being a scientologist, as it's helped me in every single aspect of my life.

Our daily decisions create the scrapbook of our life.

My friends said, 'You're crazy, enjoy single life.' But that's not for me.

For one who has not lived even a single lifetime, you are a wise man, Van Helsing.

No single discovery from any of these fields denotes proof of evolution, but together they reveal that life evolved in a certain sequence by a particular process.

Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16. I'm 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn't changed; it's the same fervour that drives me.

The little things that made up the fabric of the first six years of my life were suddenly ripped away, and I didn't have anyone around me who loved me. Not one single person.

We must all face the fact that in a single lifetime we lead several simultaneous lives; our intention should be to make them reinforce one another instead of colliding.

Here's the thing - I'm single, I haven't been married, I don't have kids yet. If I do have kids I would be interested to see them in my life, so here's a movie for kids and I'm in there and I'm supposed to be kind of funny for kids.

If I'm going to give up the single life, it better be good - because I'm having fun!

I have a lot of friends who are around. I'm having a wonderful time in my life now with my platonic relationships with men and women, because when that sexual tension is off the requirement of the interplay, then you get to who the people really are, and to yourself.

I won't say if I'm single or dating or married or divorced. There's boundaries.

The universe is a single life comprising one substance and one soul.

We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything. Anarchism, in all its forms, with the rest. But I have not tried it. They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are we born?

Let not one single life have passed in vain. What really matters is who you love and how you love.

Single life is so overrated. It sucks.

Intellectuals should never marry; they won't enjoy it; and besides, they should not reproduce themselves.

If I had to do my life over, I would change every single thing I have done.

I am by nature not a list-keeper, but I do keep lists of names and add at least one or two every single day without exception. First names, last names, middle names, combinations of. I've collected more over the years than I can possibly ever use in a single lifetime, but I keep the list going nonetheless. I tell my students that it's a habit, an act of attention, that will keep them engaged, keep them thinking about characters and stories, and how that match might get made.

I spent my whole single life trying to be thin just to find someone who'd love me once I got fat.

The single life is not one I willingly chose for myself.

He sleeps fastest who sleeps alone.