Single Quotes

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

~ Aristotle

If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

A busy, vibrant, goal-oriented woman is so much more attractive than a woman who waits around for a man to validate her existence.

~ Mandy Hale

Hope for love, pray for love, wish for love, dream for love…but don’t put your life on hold waiting for love.

~ Mandy Hale

I was always an unusual girl.My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean.

~ Lana Del Rey

Who are you?Are you in touch with all of your darkest fantasies?Have you created a life for yourself where you can experience them?I have. I am fucking crazy.But I am free.

~ Lana Del Rey

Single is no longer a lack of options – but a choice. A choice to refuse to let your life be defined by your relationship status but to live every day Happily and let your Ever After work itself out.

~ Mandy Hale

Single” is an opportunity to live life on your own terms and not apologize.

~ Mandy Hale

I once had a dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events some of those dreams dashed and divided like a million stars in the night sky that I wished on over and over again, sparkling and broken.But I didn't really mind, because I knew that it takes getting everything you ever wanted, and then losing it to know what true freedom is.

~ Lana Del Rey

There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.

~ Mandy Hale

Single is not a status, it is a word that describes a person who is strong enough to live and enjoy life without depending on others.

~ Prixie

When you are lonely for a while don't get restless, if you had born alone, you are going to die alone then for sometime you can certainly live alone.

~ Amit Kalantri

Always remember that you were once alone, and the crowd you see in your life today are just as unecessary as when you were alone.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

You don't have to be part of a couple to be happy, you know.

~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Happily Single is recognizing that you don’t need or want to be rescued from your life by a handsome prince because your life is pretty awesome, as is.

~ Mandy Hale

she was completely wholeand yet never fully complete

~ Maquita Donyel Irvin

A single thread of hope is stronger than all the chains that bind you.

~ Jeffrey Fry

...unforgivingly, and forcefully magnificent...

~ Maquita Donyel Irvin

Fantasy like thought that no man could rainJust let her reignRun wild with her unafraidOf any rain stormsThey only wash the mud away and make wayFor double rainbows and sunny days

~ Maquita Donyel Irvin

...I fell asleep and had a dream that a king was liquidated by a group of kind faces....

~ Maquita Donyel Irvin

...I fell asleep and had a dream that a king was liquidated by a group of kind faces...

~ Maquita Donyel Irvin

Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

To ask a man whether or not he has a girlfriend is to talk about his sex life. If you disagree with that, then how in the name of God do you differentiate between a man’s girlfriend and a girl that is a friend to the man?

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Some people would have killed themselves and/or someone else if they were single, and some people would not have done that.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There’s something really cool about knowing that your destiny is SO big that you’re not meant to share it with anyone. At least not yet.

~ Mandy Hale

The depths of her thoughts will have you never wanting to surface for air...

~ Maquita Donyel Irvin

Never let your fear of the unknown and things being too difficult make your choices for you in life. One of the saddest lessons in life is finding out that your fear made the situation worse than what it was and a braver person stole the dream you gave up on.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I mean what else is there for a woman to do if she doesn't want to go from the parental to the marital home with nothing in between? 'An educated woman,'Millie amended. 'An educated woman,' Ursula agreed.

~ Kate Atkinson

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

~ Michel De Montaigne

Everything else has vanished, so you take them now. Maybe if you're the one keeping them, I'll be the one feeling better.

~ Daniel Handler

I don't talk with everybody because i am not everybody, i am single.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Its better to stay single than being single again

~ Sharfaraz Ahmed

Most single people are sick of married people presenting themselves as both available and interested, when indeed they are merely “playing.” Oh, yeah… and cheating. Gee, that is attractive. Not! Others could not care less what someone’s marital status might be.

~ Cathy Burnham Martin

Learning starts with single word WHY.

~ Saadshah

LOVE, is the most powerful thing that makes my world turn upside down.

~ Bernie Yaras

I think we are going to have to love ourselves. Fuck.

~ Liz Tuccillo

By nature independent, gay, even exuberant, seductively responsive and given to those spontaneous sallies that sparkle in the conversation of certain daughters of Paris who seem to have inhaled since childhood the pungent breath of the boulevards laden with the nightly laughter of audiences leaving theaters, Madame de Burne's five years of bondage had nonetheless endowed her with a singular timidity which mingled oddly with her youthful mettle, a great fear of saying too much, of going to far, along with a fierce yearning for emancipation and a firm resolve never again to compromise her freedom.

~ Guy De Maupassant

I didn't come looking for you the day you uninvitedly appeared on my doorstepHow did we go from nonchalant conversation me waiting for you to turn me off with corny jokes and mind dumbing conversationto loveTo love and mind blowing chemistry that I've yet to make sense of What are you here to teach me?

~ Maquita Donyel Irvin

She was rare, few and far betweenShe suspected he would be as wellAnd the thought of two rare, few and far between individualsDoing all that was necessary for that rare, few and far between Meeting to occurDrove her to write

~ Maquita Donyel Irvin

A thousand times, people may have touched each other, but never ever sensed a single vein of oneness or complicity in the wilderness of their inner world, since obdurate mental impediments have been barricading the road to understanding and propinquity. (“A thousand times”)

~ Erik Pevernagie