Being Single Quotes

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.

A wedding seems to be, unless you've been married more than once, so then it's a much more mellow affair - it's one of the biggest decisions you make in your life. Of course, half of marriages fall apart and most people end up being single again anyway.

When you're under audit, you don't give your papers. An audit is - I have been under audit for so many years. Every year, I get audited. For, I think, over 10 years, maybe even 12 years, I have been audited. And I think it's very fair. And I think I'm being singled out.

The mind is what the mind is fed.

I don't dwell in the past; I don't wallow in old events and emotions. I don't waste time on regret. No use going over and over the details of what already happened.

You don't want to not be single because you're scared of being single.

Being single is like liking a Phil Spector record.

Once you become famous, being single becomes a liability.

Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.

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

I think it can be fun to be single and date like when you don't want a relationship. Or when you've just gotten out of a relationship, and, after get over the initial shock, you're thinking, hey, it's kind of cool being single.

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

Better to be quirky alone than unhappy together.

Everyone is lonely sometimes, even married people. But most single women (as well as women with spouses) actually enjoy their solitude.

He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.

Without a doubt... the worst part of being a single woman was having to take care of your own car.

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.

Women are realizing it more and more knowing that they don't have to settle with a man just to have that child. Times have changed and that is also what is amazing is that we do have so many options these days.

People are really concerned about my relationship status. When I tell people I'm happy being single, they don't believe me. They say: 'You have to be miserable being alone'.

The surest way to be alone is to get married.

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

Only if the computers really love each other.

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

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

I am only one, But still I am one. I cannot do everything, But still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

I realized that whatever your path, whatever your calling, the most damaging thing you can do is let other voices define you and drown out your own. You've got to block them out and find that place deep inside you, shaken but still intact, and hold on to it.

Solitude is the place of purification.

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.

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?

The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.

I like relationships and being in love, but I also like being single - you have to embrace all those different things.

There's nothing wrong with being fired.

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.

When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.

He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.

A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.

By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

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.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

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.

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.

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.

Being single isn't the cause of loneliness, and marriage is not necessarily the cure. There are many lonely married people as well.

Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.