Anti Valentines Day Quotes - Page 2

• When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Single

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.67, A&C Black

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• If love means never having to say you're sorry, then marriage means always having to say everything twice.

  Estelle Getty

  Sorry, Memorable, Mean

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• Avant-garde means never having to say you're sorry.

  Marc Ribot

  Love, Movie, Romantic

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• For the taxable investor, indexing means never having to say you're sorry.

  William J. Bernstein

  Love, Movie, Romantic

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• Being an American means never having to say you're sorry.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Love, Movie, Romantic

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.70, Penguin

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  Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies.

  Candace Bushnell

  Love, Single, Butterfly

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• You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Happiness, Hurt, Thinking

  Melissa de la Cruz (2010). “The Van Alen Legacy: Number 4 in series”, p.148, Hachette UK

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• You're not a coward just because you don't want to hurt people.

  Veronica Roth

  Hurt, People, Coward

  Veronica Roth (2014). “Divergent Series Ultimate Four-Book Collection: Divergent; Insurgent; Allegiant; Four”, p.60, Harper Collins

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• Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Love, Sarcastic, Depressing

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• I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

  Sexy, Funny Sex, Married

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• To love blindly is to love selfishly, because the goal of such love is not the real advantage of the beloved but only the exercise of love in our own souls.

  Thomas Merton

  Real, Being Single, Being Alone

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.3, Shambhala Publications

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• I'm dating a woman now who, evidently, is unaware of it.

  Garry Shandling

  Valentines Day, Single, Funny Love

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• Love is like war; easy to begin, hard to end.

  Ann Brashares

  Life, Funny Love, War

  FaceBook post by Ann Brashares from Apr 08, 2013

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• Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Loneliness, Being Single, Single Life

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.67, A&C Black

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• You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self.

  Jo Coudert

  Inspirational, Being Single, Self

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.131, iUniverse

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