Being Single Quotes - Page 2

• I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace for me. I never close my door behind me without the awareness that I am carrying out an act of mercy toward myself.

  Peter Høeg

  Single, Loneliness, Blessing

  Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.13, Macmillan

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• Only if the computers really love each other.

  Groucho Marx

  Computer, Love Each Other, Ifs

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• Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Music, Single, Men

  Thomas De Quincey (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas De Quincey (Illustrated)”, p.1549, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  Cesare Pavese

  Single, Loneliness, Boys

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.202, Transaction Publishers

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• The surest way to be alone is to get married.

  Gloria Steinem

  Marriage, Single, Wedding

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• It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am, the more affection I have for them. It is pure affection, and filled with reverance for the solitude of others. Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.

  Thomas Merton

  Single, Brother, Silence

  Thomas Merton (2002). “The Sign of Jonas”, p.280, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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'.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Single, Believe, People

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• Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Single, Spring, Women

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• 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.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Children, Men, Times Have Changed

  "Jennifer Aniston: Women Don't Need Men to Be Good Moms". Press conference at the Four Seasons Hotel, people.com. August 8, 2010.

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• 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.

  Juliette Binoche

  Moving, Past, Thinking

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

  Lisa Kleypas

  Single, Car, Doubt

  Lisa Kleypas (2012). “Rainshadow Road”, p.53, Macmillan

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• You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.

  Dr. Seuss

  Graduation, Self Confidence, Feet

  Dr. Seuss (2017). “Oh, The Places You’ll Go”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

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• 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.

  Aristotle

  Single, Men, Worst Enemy

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

  Sarah Mahoney

  Single, Lonely, People

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• I enjoy being single, but I loved being married.

  Stephanie Mills

  Wedding, Married, Enjoy

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• Better to be quirky alone than unhappy together.

  Anita Hamilton

  Single, Quirky, Unhappy

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

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Strong Women, Favors

  1817 Letter to Fanny Knight,13 Mar.

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• 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.

  Breckin Meyer

  Relationship, Single, Fun

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.

  Eileen Caddy

  Single, Unique, Human Nature

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• Being single doesn't mean your weak. It means your strong enough to wait for what you deserve.

  Niall Horan

  Strong, Mean, Waiting

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• If you are blessed, you are blessed, whether you are married or single.

  Greta Garbo

  Single, Blessed, Married

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

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• Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Single

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

  Tim Walters

  Girlfriend, Waiting, Quitting

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

  Phil McGraw

  Single, Sick, Healthy

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

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

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

  Single, Sleep, Bed

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