Singlehood Quotes & Sayings

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I was born in New Jersey but grew up mostly in Florida. My dad died when I was 8. — John Joseph Adams

What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily. — Christopher Morley

And I know that a king protects his people, or he is no king at all. — George R R Martin

The earth is the Lord's. Psalm 24 basically says the earth is God's property. We have been given the privilege and responsibility of living on earth to see it isn't ruined. — Allen Johnson

You should have married a nice girl in her twenties so you can have dozens of babies,'Jane Louise said. 'Instead of the president of the Withered Crone Society. — Laurie Colwin

Some of them ask him with pity, and some ask him with suspicion: the first group feels sorry for him because they assume his singlehood is not his decision but a state imposed upon him; and the second group feels a kind of hostility for him, because they think that singlehood is his decision, a defiant violation of a fundamental law of adulthood. — Hanya Yanagihara

Singlehood is not longer a state to be overcome as soon as possible. It has its own rewards. Marriage is not the gateway to adulthood anymore. For most people it's the dessert - desirable, but no longer the main course. — Stephanie Coontz

Many are busy looking for a life partner and they lose touch of their life's purpose. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Some people aren't touchy-feely, but I grew up in a family where you'd walk into the family room and there'd be five people on the couch with an arm here, an arm there, everyone scratching and taking turns. — Chris O'Donnell

Tomorrow awaits to become yesterday. Remnant shall only be a smile, a frown or a tear! Let's store what we may! — Deeba Salim Irfan

Being single isn't a terminal disease."
"Try telling that to my mother. — Alexandra Potter

Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it. — Lisa Alther

It seems to me that if God felt it best to delay marriage into the latter part of your twenties, He would also see fit to delay the hormonal urge to want to have sex. Or perhaps it was never His intent to delay marriage in an effort to "become more independent," "enjoy singlehood," and "build our careers. — Vicki Courtney

I see harmony in everything. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The more experience and insight I obtain into human nature, the more convinced do I become that the greater portion of a man is purely animal. — Henry Morton Stanley

Women blame men for their own singlehood. — Tracy McMillan

I've heard that we come on earth in pairs, get separated only to meet once again through marriage. So whoever is there on this earth for me will eventually get paired with me. Till then, I'll enjoy my singlehood. — Rani Mukerji

By trying to grab fulfillment everywhere, we find it nowhere. — Elisabeth Elliot

Singlehood is a problem to be solved. Even the bishops in singles wards are impatient with us, frustrated with the amount of time they spend away from their families, dealing with violations of the law of chastity. There's an easy solution, we're often reminded. "Just choose one," said one bishop to a male friend of mine, and indicated, like a game show host, the array of available women before him. — Nicole Hardy

Singlehood is about finding and committing to the love of your life. I'm talking about the literal love of your life. Being in a place of self-sufficiency, strength, independence, comfort, confidence, and happiness is what matters. No relationship, no matter how seemingly perfect and compatible you are, can give you these things. You have to find them within. You have to bring them to your relationship. Because in the end, you don't have to be alone to be single. And being single doesn't mean that you are alone. — Elisa Lorello

I'm always so excited about what I do that I try to get everyone to feel that way. — Missy Franklin