Being Single Quotes

• 

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

  Cyrano de Bergerac

  Single, Hiking, Working Alone

  62 Copy quote

• This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Heartbreak, Stay Strong

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.260, A&C Black

  54 Copy quote

  Show source

• Solitude is the place of purification.

  Martin Buber

  Single, Faith, Inspiration

  Martin Buber (2012). “I and Thou”, p.109, eBookIt.com

  115 Copy quote

  Show source

• Being single used to mean that nobody wanted you. Now it means you're pretty sexy and you're taking your time deciding how you want your life to be and who you want to spend it with.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Single, Sexy, Mean

  63 Copy quote

• Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that.

  Julie Delpy

  Relationship, Romantic, Single

  "Fast Food Dating Your 2 Cents". Book by Peter Sacco and Jennifer Schott, 2011.

  60 Copy quote

  Show source

• Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

  Voltaire

  Marriage, Humorous, Being Alone

  31 Copy quote
• 

  No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

  William Blake

  Love, Motivational, Cute

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.114, Pearson Education

  84 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Katie Couric

  Single, Block, Voice

  17 Copy quote

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Music, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.29, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

  42 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Single

  "The Book of Good Cheer : A Little Bundle of Cheery Thoughts‎" by Edwin Osgood Grover, (p. 28), 1909.

  50 Copy quote

  Show source

• My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.

  Warsan Shire

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Single Life

  204 Copy quote

• If you have to ask someone to change, to tell you they love you, to bring wine to dinner, to call you when they land, you can't afford to be with them.

  Sloane Crosley

  Love You, Being Alone, Wine

  Sloane Crosley (2010). “How Did You Get This Number”, p.132, Granta Books

  35 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Sue Grafton

  Single, Rich, Single Women

  Sue Grafton (2011). “D is for Deadbeat”, p.17, Pan Macmillan

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Flower, Envy

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.447, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

  37 Copy quote

  Show source

• I must learn to love the fool in me the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.

  Theodore Isaac Rubin

  Single, Hurt, Hate

  42 Copy quote

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

  Renee Jones

  Marriage, Single, Lonely

  12 Copy quote

• When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.67, A&C Black

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Single, Sexy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  56 Copy quote

  Show source

• I love being single. I can come and go as I please and stay out as late as I want to.

  Eric Dickerson

  Being Alone, Love Is, Self Love

  7 Copy quote

• Being single is pretty good. It's a nice sense of irresponsibility.

  Michael Douglas

  Single, Nice, Happy Valentines Day

  38 Copy quote

• Being single is about celebrating and appreciating your own space that you're in.

  Kelly Rowland

  Space, Appreciate, Single Life

  6 Copy quote

• 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?

  Christine Feehan

  Lonely, Thinking, Like Being Alone

  16 Copy quote

• The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.

  Omar Khayyam

  Single, Thoughtful, Soul

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.122, University of Virginia Press

  71 Copy quote

  Show source

• Don't cry for a man who's left you--the next one may fall for your smile.

  Mae West

  Funny, Smile, Break Up

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

  54 Copy quote

  Show source

• I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don't see things clearly as long as you're still involved.

  Dido Armstrong

  Being Alone, Long, Single Relationship

  9 Copy quote