Best 129 quotes in «being single quotes» category

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us

[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.

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.

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

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.

Only if the computers really love each other.

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?

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

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

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

Once you become famous, being single becomes a liability.

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

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.

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.

Single life is so overrated. It sucks.

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

There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.

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.

The mind is what the mind is fed.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

Things usually make sense in time, and even bad decisions have their own kind of correctness.

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

We are betrayed by what is false within

When I am alone I am happy.

What is it like being single? I like it! I like starting each day with a sense of possibility. And I'm optimistic, because everyday I get a little more desperate. And desperate situations yield the quickest results.

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.