Happy Single Quotes

• I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Music, Loneliness, Being Single

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.29, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• 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

  Single, Sexy, Mean

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• I don't like to be labeled as lonely just because I am alone.

  Delta Burke

  Single, Lonely, Being Alone

  "5 Things to Love About Being Single" by Whitney Caudill, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 23, 2013.

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• Being single is pretty good. It's a nice sense of irresponsibility.

  Michael Douglas

  Single, Nice, Happy Valentines Day

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• I love being single. I can come and go as I please and stay out as late as I want to.

  Eric Dickerson

  Being Single, Being Alone, Love Is

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• Being single doesn't necessarily mean you're available. Sometimes you have to put up a sign that says "Do Not Disturb" on your heart.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Single, Heart, Mean

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• I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single.

  Penelope Cruz

  Being Happy, Girlfriend, Being Single

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• Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that.

  Julie Delpy

  Relationship, Romantic, Single

  "Fast Food Dating Your 2 Cents". Book by Peter Sacco and Jennifer Schott, 2011.

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• My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.

  Warsan Shire

  Loneliness, Being Single, Being Alone

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• If we seek paradise outside ourselves, we cannot have paradise in our hearts.

  Thomas Merton

  Being Single, Being Alone, Heart

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.121, Shambhala Publications

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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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  Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

  Hermann Hesse

  Love, Life, Strength

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• I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.

  Warsan Shire

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Single

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• Now I'm feeling how I should. Never knew single could feel this good.

  Jason Derulo

  Being Alone, Feelings, Should

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• But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.

  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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• I love being single. It's almost like being rich.

  Sue Grafton

  Single, Rich, Being Single

  Sue Grafton (2011). “D is for Deadbeat”, p.17, Pan Macmillan

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• How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Inspirational, Dream

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• Being single is about celebrating and appreciating your own space that you're in.

  Kelly Rowland

  Being Single, Space, Appreciate

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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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• Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them. -Carrie Bradshaw

  Candace Bushnell

  Running, Women, Being Single

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• 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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• 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

  Single, Lonely, Loneliness

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• I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

  Walt Whitman

  Sad, Appreciation, Inspirational Life

  "Song of Myself " l. 1 (written 1855)

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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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• I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don't see things clearly as long as you're still involved.

  Dido Armstrong

  Being Single, Being Alone, Long

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