Best 129 quotes in «being single quotes» category

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.

I honestly think being single's great. Being in a relationship's great. It's all about the timing.

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.

I'm really enjoying being single. I'm not even looking to meet anybody, which is so freeing.

I'm not necessarily happy being single. It's not really that cool.

I'm not single, I'm just wait for my girlfriend to quit playing hide and seek.

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

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.

Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

It is quite lovely being single, and I much prefer it.

It is not only possible to be the person you pretend to be, but there is less effort involved.

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.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

It is therefore vital for you to understand that being single-" separate, unique, and whole"- is most essential to, and the foundation of, not only marital relationships but all relationships.

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

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

I've been on so many blind dates, I should get a free dog.

I ... would guess maybe about one or two out of five men is suited for marriage and probably four out of five women are better at marriage than being single and would like to be married.

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

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.

Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?

Love is two minds without a single thought.

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.

Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.

Only if the computers really love each other.

My mom always said I liked to stir the pot with a glittering spoon.

Once you become famous, being single becomes a liability.

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.

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

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?

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

People would be a lot better off if they'd enjoy being single.

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.

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.

[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.

Single life is so overrated. It sucks.

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

Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.

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

The mind is what the mind is fed.

When I am alone I am happy.

There's nothing wrong with being fired.

There's nothing wrong with being single and not getting married and being, you know, just an old single lady. Who cares?

The sandwich he made was bologna and cheese, his favorite. All the sandwiches he made were his favorites; that was one of the advantages of being single.