Being Single Quotes

Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us

Some people think it's wrong, being single isn't right. But if you hurt the right person, you'll be wrong all your life.

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

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

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and -- in spite of True Romance magazines -- we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely -- at least, not all the time -- but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

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

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

Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place.

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

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.

No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos.

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

You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.

Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them. -Carrie Bradshaw

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.

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

Women are the victims of war... as widows they've faced the trauma of being single parents and livelihoods of families are affected. A lot of gender-related problems come up in terms of health, education, domestic violence, etc.

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

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.

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 never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

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

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.

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.