Our latest collection of being single quotes on why it might actually be the best way to live. These being single quotes will help you love yourself more.

Although many people view relationships as the best part of life, being single can actually be the most magical, wonderful time of your life.

Being single allows you to do whatever you want, whenever you want, and without the pressures of a relationship. It allows you to experience so much without having to compromise.

In fact, being alone can help you enjoy some of the most productive and liberating years of your life. You can use your single years to grow and evolve as it affords you the opportunity to develop skills and talents you may have forgotten about or didn’t even know you had.

When you’re in a relationship, you tend to live for others and put their needs before yours. But being single means you can make your own rules,

find out who you really are and explore what you want to do with your life.

To celebrate the independence that being alone brings, here is our collection of being single quotes, being single sayings, and being single proverbs, collected from a variety of sources over the years.

Being single quotes that celebrate independence

1. “Being single is definitely better than being with the wrong person” – Hassan Choughari

2. “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

3. “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

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

5. “It takes a strong person to remain single in a world that is accustomed to settling with anything just to say they have something.” – Anonymous

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

7. “I don’t need a man to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we’ll ever have is the one with ourselves.” —Shirley MacLaine

8. “I like being single — I’m always there when I need me.” – Art Leo

9. “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

10. “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

Being single quotes to help you focus on yourself

11. “You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.” – Jo Coudert

12. “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.” – Natalie Lue

13. “I celebrate myself, and sing myself.” – Walt Whitman

14. “If you aren’t good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you’ll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren’t even giving to yourself.” – Barbara De Angelis

15. “You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.” – Maya Angelou

16. “People would be a lot better off if they’d enjoy being single.” – Lewis Black

17. “Discover why you’re important, then refuse to settle for anyone who doesn’t completely agree. – Fisher Amelie

18. “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

19. “Single lady, the man you want might not necessarily be the man you need.” – Martha Macharia

20. “You’re single not because you are not good enough for one, it’s that you’re too good for the wrong one.” – Chris Burkmenn

Being single quotes to inspire self-love

21. “Being single doesn’t make you weak, it means that you are strong enough to be on your own. – Xavier Zayas

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

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

24. “Solitude is the place of purification.” – Martin Buber

25. “Being single doesn’t mean no one loves you… It just means that God is busy writing your love story.” – Anonymous

26. “I don’t need Prince Charming to have my own happy ending. – Katy Perry

27. “People aren’t defined by their relationships.” – Nina Dobrev

28. “You don’t have to be part of a couple to be happy, you know.” – Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

29. “I love single life! Why would it be boring? I mean, I get to travel around and have loads of girls screaming at me, so it’s definitely not boring. However, it can get lonely on the road, but I’m sorted I’ve got good people around me.” – Olly Murs

30. “A broken relationship would make you feel more lonely than when you were single.” – Anonymous

Being single quotes to help you make the most of your life

31. “Too many women throw themselves into romance because they’re afraid of being single.”- Julie Deply

32. “Being single is getting over the illusion that there is somebody out there to complete you.” – Omkar Phatakc

33. “You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself.” – Jo Courdert

34. “Now I’m feeling how I should. Never knew single could feel this good.” – Jason Derulo

35. “No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another’s happiness.” – Graham Greene

36. “I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.” – Henry David Thoreau

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

38. “Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like It.” – John Mayer

39. “I’d rather be alone than unhappy.” – Whitney Houston

40. “The most profound relationship that you can ever have is the one that you have with yourself.” – Anonymous

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41. “Too many girls rush into relationships because of the fear of being single, then start making compromises, and losing their identity. Don’t do that.” – Katy Perry

42. “He is his own best friend, and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.” – Aristotle

43. “People are really concerned about my relationship status. When I tell people I’m happy being single, they don’t believe me. They say: ‘You have to be miserable being alone’.” – Kelly Clarkson

44. “Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore.” – Lady Gaga

45. “A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that next time you feel alone.” – Anonymous

46. “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.” –Anonymous

47. “Single? No, i’m just in a relationship with freedom.” – Anonymous

48. “Bad Relationships are like a bad investment.” – Sonya Parker

49. “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!” – Abigail Rajkumar

50. “If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you’re always going to be disappointed.” – Madonna

Popular being single quotes

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

52. “It’s better to “stay single” than being “single again.”― Sharfaraz Ahmed

53. “There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.”― Mandy Hale

54. “The reason I am single is that I gave my all to people who are not giving me a chance.”― De philosopher DJ Kyos

55. “If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.”― Thomas Hardy

56. “You can’t put a leash on me. I’m unleashable!”― Tiffany Winfree

57. “I love being single. It’s almost like being rich.”― Sue Grafton

58. “All single people are not really single

They all have untold stories behind the scene.”― Ahmed Ali Anjum

59. “Some people are happily single. Some are unhappily married.”

― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

60. “Being with no one is better than being with the wrong one. Sometimes those who fly solo have the strongest wings.”― Nitya Prakash

More being single quotes and sayings

61. “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.” – Unknown

62. “I don’t really do that whole ‘single life’ thing. I’m kind of heads down and get things done.” – Ed Sheeran

63. “There’s something cool about knowing that your destiny is SO big that you’re not meant to share it with anyone. At least not yet.”- Unknown

64. “I’m not single. I’m not taken. I’m simply on reserve for the one who deserves my heart.”- Unknown

65. “I never feel alone realizing the fact that my life is my only life partner.”- Unknown

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

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

68. “I am happy every day, regardless of my relationship status, because I understand that my happiness doesn’t come from a relationship, it comes from within.” – Gregg Michaelsen

69. “As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.” – Hermann Hesse

70. “He sleeps fastest who sleeps alone.” – Richard Avedond

Which of these being single quotes was your favorite?

Many people view being single as something to be escaped and avoided at all costs. But being alone can actually be the best way to live.

Being single means you can truly learn to love yourself and your independence. It provides the opportunity to reflect on life and be more meaningful.

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