Single Life Quotes - Page 2

• You know why divorce costs so much? Because it is worth it!

  Dan O'Brien

  Divorce, Cost, Knows

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• If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.

  Anthony Storr

  Marriage, Tears, Looks

  Anthony Storr (2015). “Solitude a Return to the Self”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Let not one single life have passed in vain. What really matters is who you love and how you love.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Matter, Vain

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• Everybody thinks theyll never get married at your age. You think you can go on all your life being single, but you suddenly find out that you cant.

  Alan Sillitoe

  Being Single, Thinking, Age

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• I don't live the single life and never really did.

  Tina Fey

  "Keeping It Real with Tina Fey". Interview with Lauren Iannotti, www.marieclaire.com. September 26, 2007.

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• Marriage is ridiculous.

  Goldie Hawn

  Ridiculous

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• In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.

  Marc Chagall

  Love, Life, Art

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• Oh, yeah, I see the world differently now. Actually, when I first had the baby, I was breast-feeding him for two years straight. So we were together for two years of his life, every single day, all hours of the day. So I was two people, and I eventually morphed back into one

  Erykah Badu

  Baby, Years, Two

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• But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie.

  Roberto Bolano

  Running, Art, Lying

  "Last Evenings on Earth". Book by Roberto Bolaño, 2006.

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• He had by now divested himself of schoolboy attitudes. He was unburdened by the desire to be a martyr or a hero. Any thoughts in that direction, Belgica effectively had quashed. Heroism in the corrupt sense of the age almost by definition, meant wanton self-sacrifice and bungling. For neither had he any taste. He wanted rational attainment; victory, but not at any price. No point upon the globe was worth the cost of a single life.

  Roland Huntford

  Life, Attitude, Hero

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• Heaven and hell are not very distant, they are neighbors; only a small fence divides them. You can jump that fence, even without a gate. You go on jumping from this to that. In the morning you may be in heaven; by evening you are in hell. This moment heaven, that moment hell. It is just an attitude, just a state of your mind, just how you are feeling. Many times, in a single life, you may visit hell, and many times you may visit heaven. In a single day also.

  Rajneesh

  Morning, Attitude, Jumping

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• We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything. Anarchism, in all its forms, with the rest. But I have not tried it. They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are we born?

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Sun, Life Is, Form

  "The Dispossessed". Book by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1974.

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• In one sense, reading is a great waste of time. In another sense, it is a great extension of time, a way for one person to live a thousand and one lives in a single lifespan, to watch the great impersonal universe at work again and again That is why I read: I want everything to be okay. That’s why I read when I was a lonely kid and that’s why I read now that I’m a scared adult.

  Mary Ruefle

  Lonely, Reading, Kids

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• Kids aren't going to understand single life in New York City

  Melissa Joan Hart

  New York, Kids, Cities

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• In the social equation, the value of a single life is nil; in the cosmic equation, it is infinite... Not only communism, but any political movement which implicitly relies on purely utilitarian ethics, must become a victim to the same fatal error. It is a fallacy as naïve as a mathematical teaser, and yet its consequences lead straight to Goya's Disasters, to the reign of the guillotine, the torture chambers of the Inquisition, or the cellars of the Lubianka.

  Arthur Koestler

  Errors, Political, Goya

  Arthur Koestler (1952). “Arrow in the blue: an autobiography”

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• I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't.

  James Stockdale

  Politics, Conversation, Stills

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• If you go back to the first single-cell form of life, it clearly possessed the capacity to receive, to utilize, to store, to transform, and to transmit information.

  Dee Hock

  Cells, Information, Firsts

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• I have a lot of friends who are around. I'm having a wonderful time in my life now with my platonic relationships with men and women, because when that sexual tension is off the requirement of the interplay, then you get to who the people really are, and to yourself.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Men, People, Lots Of Friends

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• Intellectuals should never marry; they won't enjoy it; and besides, they should not reproduce themselves.

  Don Herold

  Should, Enjoy

  Don Herold (1930). “Strange Bedfellows: My Crazy-quilt Memoirs, Life-maxims and What-not”

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• I won't say if I'm single or dating or married or divorced. There's boundaries.

  Tyra Banks

  Dating, Married, Boundaries

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• He sleeps fastest who sleeps alone.

  Richard Avedon

  Sleep

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• I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Home, Together, Ideals

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• When a couple decides to divorce, they should inform both sets of parents before having a party and telling all their friends. This is not only courteous but practical. Parents may be very willing to pitch in with comments, criticism, and malicious gossip of their own to help the divorce along.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Couple, Party, Divorce

  P. J. O'Rourke (1983). “Modern manners”, Dell Books

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• If a woman hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky.

  Deborah Kerr

  Men, Lucky, May

  "- That Was One Classy Dame" by Alex, www.glamour.com. October 19, 2007.

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• The little things that made up the fabric of the first six years of my life were suddenly ripped away, and I didn't have anyone around me who loved me. Not one single person.

  Julie Christie

  Years, Firsts, Six

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