As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.
I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.
I like going out and I like being single, but a growing part of me would rather just stay home, cook food with someone I really like, and do nothing.
I need relationships, but sometimes when I am in one I feel claustrophobic. It is about feeling that I still have my freedom, that I have choices. I don't look back on the past because I like to live in the present. I know this makes some people think I probably never cared, but I need my freedom and I like to keep moving.
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
Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self.
Man would be "otherwise. " That's the essence of the specifically human.
Once you become famous, being single becomes a liability.
It is quite lovely being single, and I much prefer it.
Single life is so overrated. It sucks.
It is therefore vital for you to understand that being single-" separate, unique, and whole"- is most essential to, and the foundation of, not only marital relationships but all relationships.
We are betrayed by what is false within
There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.
The part that's difficult is being single, at 41, after 10 years of marriage and two kids. That's like having a bunch of money in a currency of a country that doesn't exist anymore.
People should get married because they have finally seen the folly of being single: "Oh, this is all just kind of a bad magic trick. I just keep bending over to reach for this wallet on a string. How much longer am I gonna do that?"
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.
It is not only possible to be the person you pretend to be, but there is less effort involved.
Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.
Originality is. . . a by-product of sincerity.