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.
You don't want to not be single because you're scared of being single.
You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.
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.
The mind is what the mind is fed.
I don't mind being single. In fact, I like it.
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.
[Robert Downey was being singled out for] selective prosecution. He's a sweet guy who never did harm to anyone except himself. He's been doing drugs for 20 years and functioning for 20 years, and in those 20 years there've been hundreds of people who've been getting high constantly and behaved very destructively and have not been arrested. Robert's real problem is he gets caught.
Because it's one of those things I never expected in my lifetime," he told me. "Like a comet. Or world peace. I'm just used to you being single." For some reason, that bothered me. "What, you don't think any guy would ever be interested in me?" Actually," said Adrian, sounding remarkably serious, "I can imagine lots of guys being interested in you.
You're born single, you die single, but why not being in a relationship is some special 'single' status, I don't understand. Life is less stress being single, I have to admit.
I think there's a level at which you think that there's a reason that you're being singled out, that you're being chosen. As a kid, I was always mistaken for a girl. Before you reach that age where your sexuality starts to display itself, kids can look very androgynous, and I guess I leaned more toward the feminine. All those things were very hard, growing up, because you're trying to create an identity, and you're feeling shameful about the one that you're making. So, I identified with it a lot.
I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that is something which is important for me to learn to do.
Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.
Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place.
You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.
You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. Of all the people you will know in the lifetime, you are the only one you will never leave or lose.
When you're under audit, you don't give your papers. An audit is - I have been under audit for so many years. Every year, I get audited. For, I think, over 10 years, maybe even 12 years, I have been audited. And I think it's very fair. And I think I'm being singled out.
Learning to enjoy being single involves the ability to experience everything through your own essence, instead of living vicariously through a spouse or partner.
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.
A wedding seems to be, unless you've been married more than once, so then it's a much more mellow affair - it's one of the biggest decisions you make in your life. Of course, half of marriages fall apart and most people end up being single again anyway.
About age 30 most women think about having children, most men think about dating them.
I had enough time being single to know I have no regrets about being married!
I want to be better at being single, and I want to be better at feeling okay about being single. I don't need a boyfriend.
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