Single Quotes

A person who is another man's slave is better than one who is a slave to lust.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Falling in love can be likened to someone, falling from a high building. The possible result will be unconsciousness if not death. Take it that, anybody that falls in love is either unconscious or dead.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

And I never started to plow in my lifeThat some one did not stop in the roadAnd take me away to a dance or picnic. I ended up with forty acres; I ended up with a broken fiddle—And a broken laugh, and a thousand memories,And not a single regret.

~ Edgar Lee Masters

Because cooks love the social aspect of food, cooking for one is intrinsically interesting. A good meal is like a present, and it can feel goofy, at best, to give yourself a present. On the other hand, there is something life affirming in taking the trouble to feed yourself well, or even decently. Cooking for yourself allows you to be strange or decadent or both. The chances of liking what you make are high, but if it winds up being disgusting, you can always throw it away and order a pizza; no one else will know. In the end, the experimentation, the impulsiveness, and the invention that such conditions allow for will probably make you a better cook.

~ Jenni Ferrari-Adler

Taking solitude in stride was a sign of strength and of a willingness to take care of myself. This meant - among other things - working productively, remembering to leave the house, and eating well. I thought about food all the time. I had a subscription to Gourmet and Food & Wine. Cooking for others had often been my way of offering care. So why, when I was alone, did I find myself trying to subsist on cereal and water? I'd need to learn to cook for one.

~ Jenni Ferrari-Adler

She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.

~ Lewis Carroll

The passage is free for those who think you are not good enough for them: at your level, I think the best option is to sit back, relax and listen to a cool music, while watching them pack out of your life, and that's when you feel the intense release from the pit of hell.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

The game never changes, you must be in the secret before you are shown to the public.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

What does an introvert do when he's left alone? He stays alone.

~ Jenni Ferrari-Adler

To be of good quality, you have to excuse yourself from the presence of shallow and callow minded individuals.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Saul stared at his Whisky Sour. He hadn’t heard from Zoe in about a week. Maybe she had lost interest. All at once, the room was filled with people laughing, talking about how wonderful it was to be a couple. He was mildly amused at how disconcerting being alone felt. He had met Zoe about a month ago, when he helped her cross a busy boulevard. Yet, it seemed like he had known her for years. He stepped outside to call and leave another message.

~ Michael Benzehabe

...you needs uh man.” Janie laughed at all these well-wishers because she knew that they knew plenty of women alone, that she was not the first one they had ever seen. But most of the others were poor. Besides she liked being lonesome for a change. This freedom feeling was fine. These men didn’t represent a thing she wanted to know about. She had already experienced them...

~ Zora Neale Hurston

Perhaps it is impossible to understand one's own face. Or perhaps it is because I am a single man? People who live in society have learned how to see themselves in mirrors as they appear to their friends. I have no friends. Is that why my flesh is so naked?

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Being alone is not the same as being on your own.

~ Katy Lee

My alone doesn't always feel good, but I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude

~ Introvertly Bubbly

The lonely people have taught me, that I am not alone.

~ Anthony Liccione

As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way and denied so vehemently an knowledge of his movements that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table--the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

She didn't want to have anything to do with the party. She was tired of feeling like she didn't fit in, but she didn't want to go home, either, because she was a tired of being lonely and she was a little drunk.

~ Candace Bushnell

If you are single and don't want to be. The only regret is staying that way.

~ Suzette R. Hinton

The formula I've figured out: Stop being so damn picky and let go of the mental image of an ideal; talk to more strangers, because it builds confidence and helps you feel more connected; be open to every opportunity, and when you do meet someone you like, keep dating around. And there's the mother of all lessons-the one I'm still working on: follow your instincts and even if you're wrong about him (or her), you'll know better for the next time.

~ Rachel Machacek

Do you have one where you’re riding a horse or a camel? Or sitting on a rocket ship? Those are always wildly popular with men looking for sex.—SINGLE-MINDED

~ Lisa Daily

Join the Revolution! Be your own Brand of Sexy!

~ Susan L. Edelman

Seasoned digital daters are like lions who have had their prey killed, butchered, and served to them on a tray in their artificial habitat for so long that they’ve forgotten how to hunt.

~ Maggie Georgiana Young

Every rose has it's thorn, but that doesn't mean you have to put up with a ton of pricks.

~ Kelly Rossi

Be ashamed not of being single, or, unemployed. That comes standard.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single girl in possession of her right mind must be in want of a decent man.

~ Alexandra Potter

I loved him the way some people are to be loved - from a distance.

~ Sanhita Baruah

It is easy to say, but there is no way I could personally address every single problem in my nation, they are too many. Oh yea, you cannot fix all problems, but you can fix some problems, more importantly you could bring enlightenment to all others around you

~ Sunday Adelaja

The world makes, and hates, bachelors.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

Somewhere along the way people became afraid to be single. To be unmarried, separate from others and lost their individuality searching for it in society’s view of relationships.

~ Sanjo Jendayi

My concern is to help people find out how they could best live their lives to hit the mark almost every single time.

~ Sunday Adelaja

As highly sensitive individuals, we simply cannot stand feeling trapped, constricted or smothered in any way. We highly value our freedom and autonomy, making us particularly prone to staying single for long periods of time.

~ Aletheia Luna

Every night I used to pray that I’d find my people, and finally I did on the open road.We had nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore, except to make our lives into a work of art.

~ Lana Del Rey

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~ Stefan D

Pritchard was lonely, and like most lonely souls, he saw happy couples everywhere.

~ Eleanor Catton

When you are feeling sad and lonely because you are single, remember that there are a lot of people stuck in bad relationships who wish they could be in your shoes.

~ Pamela Cummins

Single life is the best life until you get hit by lonely nights.

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

She was smart and terribly determined, this girl-her will was pure steel, through and through-but she was as human as anyone else. She was lonely, too. Lonely in a way that perhaps only single girls fresh from small Midwestern towns know. Homesickness is not always a vague, nostalgic, almost beautiful emotion, although that is somehow the way we always seem to picture it in our mind. It can be a terribly keen blade, not just a sickness in metaphor but in fact as well. It can change the way one looks at the world; the faces one sees in the street look not just indifferent but ugly....perhaps even malignant. Homesickness is a real sickness- the ache of the uprooted plant.

~ Stephen King

He'd been saving up his love for years and years, waiting for the right personto spend his fortune on.

~ John Mark Green

When there is not a single special person in your life, you have so many special things for saying, and when you have so many special people, you cannot even find one special word for them.

~ M.f. Moonzajer