66 Quotes About Single Life

If you’re single and you feel like you’re missing out on life, you aren’t alone. According to a study from the University of Chicago, almost half of American adults are single, and there are even more people who are single by choice. While it can be difficult to get through the tough times, we’ve compiled the best quotes about being single so that you can feel less lonely and depressed.

A busy, vibrant, goal-oriented woman is so much more attractive...
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A busy, vibrant, goal-oriented woman is so much more attractive than a woman who waits around for a man to validate her existence. Mandy Hale
Hope for love, pray for love, wish for love, dream...
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Hope for love, pray for love, wish for love, dream for love…but don’t put your life on hold waiting for love. Mandy Hale
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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. Mandy Hale
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Single” is an opportunity to live life on your own terms and not apologize. Mandy Hale
There are some places in life where you can only...
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There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey. Mandy Hale
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After years of searching, I have found my soulmate, and it is myself. The bachelor is content. Oh, he still dates women from time to time, and he listens to the wedding marches sometimes too. But only because he likes them. Marci Shimoff
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Happily Single" is recognizing that you don’t need or want to be rescued from your life by a handsome prince because your life is pretty awesome, as is. Mandy Hale
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Be VERY careful of who or what you entertain when you’re bored. Boredom can get you caught up in some foul stuff. Trust! Stephanie Lahart
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There’s something really cool about knowing that your destiny is SO big that you’re not meant to share it with anyone. At least not yet. Mandy Hale
Be a bit of a challenge not because you're playing...
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Be a bit of a challenge not because you're playing games but because you realize you're worth the extra effort. Mandy Hale
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Women Empowerment Reminder of The Day. Always respect yourself as a woman. You attract what you are, so be very mindful of how you’re representing yourself. If you want respect, you must first learn how to respect yourself, first. Attracting negative attention is never a good thing. Be a woman of substance! Be a woman that both women and men respect, admire, and look up to. Don’t disrespect yourself by lowering your standards and accepting just anything that comes your way. It’s okay to be single! If you want a relationship of substance, you can’t keep entertaining people and things that mean you no good. Think about it! It’s all up to you. Stephanie Lahart
Its better to
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Its better to "stay single" than being "single again Sharfaraz Ahmed
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Don Pedro - (...)'In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.' Benedick - The savage bull may, but if ever the sensible Benedick bear it, pluck off the bull's horns and set them in my forehead, and let me be vildly painted; and in such great letters as they writes, 'Here is good horse for hire', let them signify under my sign, 'Here you may see Benedick the married man. William Shakespeare
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Sabrina: “But you don’t believe in marriage.” Linus: “Yes, I do. It’s why I’ve never married. Samuel Taylor
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When you least expect it is when the person you always dreamt of will finally show up. Shannon L. Alder
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I had always liked staying the night with other families, having your own room with a freshly made bed, full of unfamiliar objects, with a towel and a washcloth nicely laid out, and from there straight into the heart of family life, despite there always being, no matter whom I visited, an uncomfortable side, because even though people always try to keep existing tensions in the background whenever guests are present, the tensions are still noticeable, and you can never know if it is your presence that has caused them or whether they are just there and indeed your presence is helping to suppress them. A third possibility is, of course, that all these tensions were just tensions that lived their own lives in my head. Unknown
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A question that always makes me hazy is it me or are the others crazy' Albert Einstein Victoria Ward
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Some people are severely lonely, all they can do is accept the single life as an example of being free and happy. Anthony Liccione
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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. Mandy Hale
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Single |sin-gle| (adjective) - Too fabulous to settle. Mandy Hale
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Single" means you are brave enough to face the glorious unknown of the unaccompanied journey. Mandy Hale
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She hasn’t got it all figured out...far from it, in fact. But she loves God and she loves to dance…and she’s her own “Better Half.”The bravest woman I know? She is the reason I do what I do. She is The Single Woman.She’s me…and she’s you. Mandy Hale
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Don't ignore the love you DO have in your life by focusing on the love you DON'T. Mandy Hale
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Love shouldn’t require Windex to be clear. It either is or it isn’t. Mandy Hale
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Not everyone has to ride off into the sunset with a man. Some of us just want a tan. Mandy Hale
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A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that next time you feel alone. Mandy Hale
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She has to have four arms, four legs, four eyes, two hearts, and double the love. There is nothing “single” about a single mom. Mandy Hale
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Next time you hit a speed bump otherwise known as the age-old question “Why are you still single?” look ’em in the eye and say: “Because I’m too fabulous to settle. Mandy Hale
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Think about it this way: While being married is about becoming the WIFE you are meant to be, being single allows you to focus on becoming the WOMAN you were born to be. Mandy Hale
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It takes guts and bravery and heart to walk a mile in a single girl’s shoes. And sometimes a fabulous pedicure. Mandy Hale
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Single is a choice, just like Married is. Mandy Hale
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Some steps need to be taken alone. It's the only way to really figure out where you need to go and who you need to be. Mandy Hale
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You don’t need a significant other to lead a significant life. Mandy Hale
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So many people are so terrified to be alone that they settle for a loveless relationship or stay trapped in a miserable one for months and even years on end. But as it turns out, alone means unique, unequaled, and unexcelled. Or in other words: Unparalleled. Unrepeatable. Unable to be imitated or duplicated. Brave. FABULOUSLY ORIGINAL. Mandy Hale
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Single ladies, we are not Damsels in Distress…we are Divas that Impress! Mandy Hale
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Happily Single is holding out for the best and letting go of the rest. It’s saying “I will and I can” to YOURSELF before you say “I do” to someone else. Mandy Hale
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Happily Single is permission to CHOOSE your life rather than having it handed to you, and it’s living life on your own terms instead of those that are expected of you. Mandy Hale
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Happy is still Happy, with or without the Ever After. Mandy Hale
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Not everything in life has to be about finding “The One.” Sometimes a girl just wants to have fun. Mandy Hale
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Single ladies, the only thing we need to be rescued from is the notion that we need to be rescued. Mandy Hale
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Love is a beautiful, wonderful, and even sacred thing, but until it arrives, shouldn’t we give ourselves permission to thrive? Mandy Hale
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There is no such thing as safe sex, since no one can create a condom for the soul. Jayce ONeal
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DNA, DNA, DNA. You never ever deny it, fool. I thought he is my cold enemy. When he died, he became my father. Says Bhutta (Biography) M.K. Bhutta
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Single moms: You are a doctor, a teacher, a nurse, a maid, a cook, a referee, a heroine, a provider, a defender, a protector, a true Superwoman. Wear your cape proudly. Mandy Hale
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Don't let society fool you into believing that if you don't have a girlfriend or boyfriend then you're destined for a life of misery. The Dalai Lama has been single for the last 80 years and he is one of the happiest people on earth. Stop searching for happiness in places outside of yourself, and start finding it where it has always been: within you. Miya Yamanouchi
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Never invest in any kind of relationship with anyone who is not willing to work on themselves just a little every day. A person who takes no interest in any form of self-improvement, personal development or spiritual growth will also not be inclined to make much of an effort building a truly meaningful connection with you. A relationship with only one partner willing to do the work ceases to be a relationship. And as anyone who has been there will tell you - it's pointless to try and dance the tango solo. . Anthon St. Maarten
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Honesty is one of the key elements to a great relationship. If you cannot be honest with your partner, stay single. Kemi Sogunle
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With even the slightest upset, detachment soon followed. I didn’t lose sleep over men, and I was too restless to be tied down. The grass didn’t even have time to grow around my feet before I was planning my next escape — whether it was to another state or out of someone’s life. M.B. Dallocchio
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I never feel alone realizing the fact that my life is my only life partner Munia Khan
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If you can't take care of yourself, you can't take care of someone else. Sahithi Setikam
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I'm OK with being single, but I'm not OK when the time comes where I have to move my furniture around and to change the high ceiling light balls... Hiroko Sakai
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Create you own singleness, your own loneliness, and know that you know this is exactly what you are doing. And feel damn right about it. Margaret Aranda
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We all have our own road to walk. Whether rocky, curving, straight or smooth, what good is a lonely road? It’s when we run and intersect with other roads that defines our road. When road meets road do we get direction, and choices to cross into another life. Anthony Liccione
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The world always said to just be yourself, but it turned out when Evelyn was herself, no guys were at all interested, so she was left with games of make-believe, expressing enthusiasm for whatever the men wanted to do, be it rock climbing or going to a cheese-beer pairing or a Knicks game. Stephanie Clifford
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Do you have one where you’re riding a horse or a camel? Or sitting on a rocket ship? Those are always wildly popular with men looking for sex.– S I N G L E- M I N D E D Lisa Daily
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Dating becomes a cutthroat game of musical chairs with everyone scrambling for available partners to avoid standing alone at 30 when the music stops. Robyn Louis
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If your attached friends are bugging you about being single (favourite accusation: “You’re too picky! ”) turn it around on them. “Do you know any gorgeous single men I could meet?” (This could backfire if they’re keen to set you up and their idea of “gorgeous” is vastly different from yours. And it will be.) Alternatively, be super-sweet and tell them you’re waiting for your ideal partner “just like you did”. (It won’t work if you snigger at this point.). Rosie Blythe
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Every rose has it's thorn, but that doesn't mean you have to put up with a ton of pricks. Kelly Rossi
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Nobody special had come around to replace Duane, and she was moping, going to bed alone every night with a box of Velveeta and a fork. Laura McHugh
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So distracting, so complete is she that she is gone before many realize that she had no escort, she was along, a parade of one. Jerry Spinelli
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So distracting, so complete is she that she is gone before many realize that she had no escort, she was alone, a parade of one. Jerry Spinelli
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What women are concerned in is developing their own individuality, and hence they refuse to call any man master, be he husband or spiritual guide. Personal freedom is more precious to them than the protection of the best men. The women they envy are not those who are simply wives and mothers, but those who by honest intelligent work have attained distinction in any line of effort, and whose creed has been self-reliance. Neith Boyce
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Better be a desperate single with many options than a desperate married with no option. Amen Muffler
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Better be a desperate single with options than a desperate married with no options. Amen Muffler
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When you are feeling sad and lonely because you are single, remember that there are a lot of people stuck in bad relationships who wish they could be in your shoes. Pamela Cummins