Best 129 quotes in «being single quotes» category

I enjoy being single, but I loved being married.

I am much better employed from every point of view, when I live solely for my own satisfaction, than when I begin to worry about the world. The world frightens me, and a frightened man is no good for anything.

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.

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

I don't like to be labeled as lonely just because I am alone.

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.

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

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

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.

If you help yourself to the benefits of being married when you are single, you're likely to help yourself to the benefits of being single when you're married.

I had enough time being single to know I have no regrets about being married!

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

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 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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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 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?

Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us

Love is two minds without a single thought.

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

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

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.

Once you become famous, being single becomes a liability.

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.

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.

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

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.