Top Single Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Single quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Peter Høeg
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
Collection: Single
Image of Bruce H. Lipton
You may consider yourself an individual, but as a cell biologist, I can tell you that you are in truth a cooperative community of approximately fifty trillion single-celled citizens.
- Bruce H. Lipton
Collection: Single
Image of Sarah Jessica Parker
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
Collection: Single
Image of Simone Weil
Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection, there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sigh that you will recognize it.
- Simone Weil
Collection: Single
Image of Philip Sidney
They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
- Philip Sidney
Collection: Single
Image of Sarah T. Bolton
Voyager upon life's sea, To yourself be true, And whate'er your lot may be, Paddle your own canoe.
- Sarah T. Bolton
Collection: Single
Image of Theodore Isaac Rubin
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
Collection: Single
Image of April Masini
There is a lot of relief for daters who are serious about wanting to be in a relationship. This comes in the form of what appears to be dramatic changes like speed dating and Internet dating.
- April Masini
Collection: Single
Image of Eda LeShan
When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death-ourselves.
- Eda LeShan
Collection: Single
Image of Rita Mae Brown
I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.
- Rita Mae Brown
Collection: Single
Image of Louis Sullivan
Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.
- Louis Sullivan
Collection: Single
Image of Geraldine Lee Wei Ling
I knew I could not live my life around a husband, now would I want a husband to live his life around me. Of course, there are any number of variations in marital relationships between those extremes. But there is always a need for spouses to change their behaviors or habits to suit each other. I have always been set in my ways and did not fancy changing my behavior or lifestyle.
- Geraldine Lee Wei Ling
Collection: Single
Image of Geraldine Lee Wei Ling
I am 54 years old and happily single. In addition to my nuclear family, I have a close circle of friends. Most of my friends are men. But my reputation is such that their female partners would never consider me a threat.
- Geraldine Lee Wei Ling
Collection: Single
Image of Stephanie Coontz
Singlehood is not longer a state to be overcome as soon as possible. It has its own rewards. Marriage is not the gateway to adulthood anymore. For most people it's the dessert - desirable, but no longer the main course.
- Stephanie Coontz
Collection: Single
Image of Madonna Ciccone
If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.
- Madonna Ciccone
Collection: Single
Image of Delta Burke
I don't like to be labeled as lonely just because I am alone.
- Delta Burke
Collection: Single
Image of Harville Hendrix
Many divorced or widowed people do with their singleness what they should have done before they married for the first time: live alone, find their own rhythms, date a variety of people, go into therapy, develop new friends and interests, learn how to live with and care for themselves.
- Harville Hendrix
Collection: Single
Image of Harville Hendrix
Singleness would be recognized as a vital stage of the journey to maturation, a time to learn about who we are, to learn responsibility and self-sufficiency, to identify our true desires, and to confront our inner strengths and demons.
- Harville Hendrix
Collection: Single
Image of Anita Hamilton
Single gals aren't all a bunch of Bridget Joneses, desperate for love.
- Anita Hamilton
Collection: Single
Image of Anita Hamilton
Better to be quirky alone than unhappy together.
- Anita Hamilton
Collection: Single
Image of Sarah Mahoney
Everyone is lonely sometimes, even married people. But most single women (as well as women with spouses) actually enjoy their solitude.
- Sarah Mahoney
Collection: Single
Image of Katie Couric
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
Collection: Single
Image of Michael Douglas
Being single is pretty good. It's a nice sense of irresponsibility.
- Michael Douglas
Collection: Single
Image of Robert I. Sutton
The best single question for testing an organization's character is: What happens when people make mistakes?
- Robert I. Sutton
Collection: Single
Image of Abbie Hoffman
You are talking to a leftist. I believe in the redistribution of wealth and power in the world. I believe in universal hospital care for everyone. I believe that we should not have a single homeless person in the richest country in the world. And I believe that we should not have a C.I.A. that goes around overwhelming governments and assassinating political leaders, working for tight oligarchies around the world to protect the tight oligarchy here at home.
- Abbie Hoffman
Collection: Single
Image of J. C. Macaulay
Keep your heart right, even when it is sorely wounded.
- J. C. Macaulay
Collection: Single
Image of Roger Babson
I have not been able to find a single useful institution which has not been founded either by an intensely religious man or by the son of a praying father or a praying mother. I have made the statement before the chambers of commerce of all the largest cities of the country and have asked them to bring forward a case that is an exception to this rule. Thus far, I have not heard of a single one.
- Roger Babson
Collection: Single
Image of Florence King
Of all the old maid's blessing, the greatest is carte blanche. Spinsterhood is powerful; once a woman is called "that crazy old maid" she can get away with anything.
- Florence King
Collection: Single
Image of Judy Carter
About age 30 most women think about having children, most men think about dating them.
- Judy Carter
Collection: Single
Image of David Steindl-Rast
A single crocus blossom ought to be enough to convince our heart that springtime, no matter how predictable, is somehow a gift, gratuitous, gratis, a grace.
- David Steindl-Rast
Collection: Single
Image of Mark Twain
Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.
- Mark Twain
Collection: Single
Image of Thomas Merton
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
Collection: Single
Image of Chuck Palahniuk
I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.' A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Collection: Single
Image of Guy Ritchie
I'm single again and I wouldn't have it any other way. I'm loving it at the moment. This is what I've been missing.
- Guy Ritchie
Collection: Single
Image of Alfred Lord Tennyson
But while I breathe Heaven's air and Heaven looks down on me, And smiles at my best meanings, I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Collection: Single
Image of Chuck Palahniuk
Ever since college, I make friends. They get married. I lose friends.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Collection: Single
Image of Kelly Rowland
Being single is about celebrating and appreciating your own space that you're in. I couldn't have lived alone before. I always needed someone to share my space but now I like being by myself. If I want to be with people then I see my friends; if I want a date then I'll have one.
- Kelly Rowland
Collection: Single
Image of Yanni
I don't dwell in the past; I don't wallow in old events and emotions. I don't waste time on regret. No use going over and over the details of what already happened.
- Yanni
Collection: Single
Image of Charlotte Bronte
The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.
- Charlotte Bronte
Collection: Single
Image of William Carlos Williams
When I am alone I am happy.
- William Carlos Williams
Collection: Single
Image of Sienna Miller
I've had somebody on the end of the phone, maybe, but I haven't been living with anyone or been in a proper relationship, and it's been really great. And now I'm completely on my own. I think I've grown up a lot.
- Sienna Miller
Collection: Single
Image of Deepak Chopra
There is a restless kind of consumer shopping for partners, as if the "right one" can be found by totting up a potential mate's pluses and minuses until the number of pluses matches some mythical standards.
- Deepak Chopra
Collection: Single
Image of Charlie Munger
What's the best way to get a good spouse? The best single way is to deserve a good spouse because a good spouse is by definition not nuts.
- Charlie Munger
Collection: Single
Image of Kelly Clarkson
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
Collection: Single
Image of Candace Bushnell
I think that one of the things that has changed the perception is that there are so many more single people. In New York City, it's 47 percent. When you have that many people who are single, they have a bigger voice and they're more willing to speak and say, 'We're not miserable, we're not sitting at home waiting for Mr. or Ms. Right, we're having a good time.' And I think single people have better friendships.
- Candace Bushnell
Collection: Single
Image of Kelly Clarkson
I'm not that girl who's really concerned with it. I've dated a bit and it's just draining to me. If it's not going to happen natural, obviously it's going to be someone in the industry because that's the only time people ever really see me.
- Kelly Clarkson
Collection: Single
Image of Sara Quin
I've been having a lot of dance parties alone in my apartment while learning to cook. Part of my quest to be an attractive single is to learn how to cook and sew and get a license.
- Sara Quin
Collection: Single
Image of Cameron Diaz
It's been nice not having a boyfriend. I could be in a relationship if I wanted to be, but I haven't finished doing what I'm doing. I like boy, a lot. I'm boy crazy. That hasn't changed since I was very young.
- Cameron Diaz
Collection: Single
Image of Publilius Syrus
He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.
- Publilius Syrus
Collection: Single
Image of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Collection: Single