35 Quotes About Staying Single

Not making your happily ever after a reality does not mean you can not live a fulfilling life being single. These quotes about staying single capture the many reasoning’s and benefits to remaining unattached in a relationship.

“A busy, vibrant, goal-oriented woman is so much more attractive than a woman who waits around for a man to validate her existence.”

“Always remember that you were once alone, and the crowd you see in your life today are just as unecessary as when you were alone.”

“Being brave enough to be alone frees you up to invite people into your life because you want them and not because you need them.”

“Being single doesn’t mean that you know nothing about love. Sometimes being solo is wiser than being in a false relationship.”

“Being single entitles you to not ask someone’s opinion before you do something to mess up your own room, your credit report or even your life.”

“Being single is about celebrating and appreciating your own space that you’re in.”

“Everything else has vanished, so you take them now. Maybe if you’re the one keeping them, I’ll be the one feeling better.”

“Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.”

“He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.”

“Hope for love, pray for love, wish for love, dream for love… but don’t put your life on hold waiting for love.”

“I don’t like to be labeled as lonely just because I am alone.”

“I like being single, I’m always there when I need me.”

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

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

“I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not defined by another person.”

“If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.”

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

“If you can’t take care of yourself, you can’t take care of someone else.”

“If you really are going to be a happy single, you have to stop treating being single as the annoying time that you pass between relationships and embrace it. Rather than focusing on what you lack, focus on what you have: You.”

“If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.”

“It is better to lock up your heart with a merciless padlock, than to fall in love with someone who doesn’t know what they mean to you.”

“My alone feels so good, I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude.”

“Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.”

“Single is an opportunity to live life on your own terms and not apologize.”

“Single is no longer a lack of options – but a choice. A choice to refuse to let your life be defined by your relationship status but to live every day Happily and let your Ever After work itself out.”

“Single is not a status, it is a word that describes a person who is strong enough to live and enjoy life without depending on others.”

“Single is not a status. It is a word that best describes a person who is strong enough to live and enjoy life without depending on others.”

“Some people think it’s wrong, being single isn’t right. But you hurt the right person you’ll be wrong all your life.”

“That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.”

“The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.”

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

“To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.”

“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.”

“When you are lonely for a while don’t get restless, if you had born alone, you are going to die alone then for sometime you can certainly live alone.”

“Without a doubt… the worst part of being a single woman was having to take care of your own car.”

For many, there is a fear associated with being left alone of living life single.