But regardless of how you feel about your current relationship status, you don’t need a special someone in order to celebrate (and actually enjoy) the holiday of love. So much so that we have the best single on Valentine’s quotes to remind you why you don’t need a valentine to enjoy the day. In fact, being single on Valentine’s Day means just that: you get to spend the day pleasing your forever valentine—yourself! If you’re flying solo this V-day, these single on Valentine’s Day quotes will help you in the mood to celebrate.

75 Single on Valentine’s Day Quotes

  1. “Valentine’s Day is for couples. Us singles have the other 364 days of the year to enjoy ourselves!” — Unknown
  2. “Love sucks. Sometimes it feels good. Sometimes it’s just another way to bleed.” — Laurell K. Hamilton
  3. “Being single doesn’t mean no one loves you. It means that God is busy writing your love story.” – Unknown
  4. “Being single used to mean that nobody wanted you. Now it means you’re pretty sexy and you’re taking your time deciding how you want your life to be and who you want to spend it with.” – Sex and the City
  5. “Happy phony, romanticized, overly commercial, sucks to be single, pretend that it’s love, day!” – Unknown
  6. “Sometimes you have to stand alone to prove that you can still stand.” — Anonymous
  7. “I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.” — Henry David Thoreau
  8. “If being in love is what it means to be free, then this Valentine’s Day my heart is in solitary confinement!” - Unknown
  9. “You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody” – Maya Angelou
  10. “My alone feels so good, I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude.” - Warsan Shire
  11. “S.I.N.G.L.E = Strong, Independent, Noticeable, Generous, Loyal and Enlightened” - Unknown
  12. “I’m single because I was born that way.” - Mae West
  13. “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
  14. “I love being single. I can come and go as I please and stay out as late as I want to.” – Eric Dickerson
  15. “I don’t need a man to make it happen I get off being free I don’t need a man to make me feel good I get off doing my thing I don’t need a ring around my finger To make me feel complete” – Pussycat Dolls, “I Don’t Need a Man”
  16. “This February 14th, take a moment to laugh thoroughly at your singlehood, everybody else does!” - Unknown
  17. “I think, therefore I’m single.” - Liz Winston
  18. “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
  19. “If we seek paradise outside ourselves, we cannot have paradise in our hearts.” - Thomas Merton
  20. “I don’t like to be labeled as lonely just because I am alone.” - Delta Burke
  21. “He sleeps fastest who sleeps alone.” - Richard Avedon
  22. “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
  23. “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
  24. “The course of true love never did run smooth.” - William Shakespeare
  25. “I had every intent of celebrating Valentine’s Day, but when Cupid got around to me it seems he had run out of arrows.” - Unknown
  26. “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.” – Unknown
  27. “I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is ending up with people who make you feel all alone.” - Robin Williams
  28. “Valentine’s Day is a time to celebrate the joy of being in love. Unless you’re single and lonely then it’s called Laundry Day.” – Dane Cook
  29. “Single is an opportunity to live life on your own terms and not apologize.” - Mandy Hale
  30. “Instead of celebrating Valentine’s Day this year, I’m celebrating Discount Chocolate Tuesday.” - Unknown
  31. “You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.” - Wayne Dyer
  32. “Being single is pretty good. It’s a nice sense of irresponsibility.” - Michael Douglas
  33. “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
  34. “I don’t understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine’s Day. When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon.” - Unknown
  35. “A man without a woman is a bachelor. A woman without a man is a genius.” - Maxine
  36. “The thing about Valentine’s Day is that people discover who are single and who to feel jealous of.” - Faye Morgan
  37. “Don’t be sad if you are single on Valentine’s Day. Work hard, achieve something and see, one day, the right person will cross your path.” - Harshal “Harry” Batha
  38. “Happy Valentine’s Day to myself, I love you!” - Unknown
  39. “I like being single, I’m always there when I need me.” - Art Leo
  40. “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.” - Sayali Patil
  41. “It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.” - Marilyn Monroe
  42. “I celebrate myself, and sing myself.” - Walt Whitman 43. “Being single doesn’t mean that you know nothing about love. Sometimes being solo is wiser than being in a false relationship.” - Unknown
  43. “Love stinks.” - J. Geils Band
  44. “The last thing you want to get addicted to is someone.” – Aruho Marvin
  45. “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
  46. “Single life shouldn’t be a diet of junk food, aiming only to please one’s lower appetites. It should be a time of preparation, the veggies that earn our dessert.” ― Amy E. Spiegel
  47. “Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.” - W. Somerset Maugham in “A Writer’s Notebook”
  48. “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.” - Eda Leshan
  49. “You don’t need a significant other to lead a significant life.” ― Mandy Hale
  50. “…the very acknowledgment that women have selves that exist independently of others, and especially independent of husbands and children, is revolutionary.” – Rebecca Traister
  51. “If lovers get half price off on Valentine’s Day, then singles should just get everything for free!” – Unknown
  52. “I love being single. It’s my choice, not a sentence. It’s not a state that I’m in until someone better comes along. Don’t feel sorry for me. I love my life." – Sarah Morgan
  53. “Solitude is the place of purification.” - Martin Buber
  54. “No girl should ever forget that she doesn’t need anyone who doesn’t need her.” – Marilyn Monroe
  55. “When you’re single, all you see are happy couples. When you’re committed, all you see are happy singles.” - Unknown
  56. “Nobody is ever going to be able to fill your shaped hole for you…The gaping hole we all have inside that deeply craves validation, love and comfort.” - Chidere Eggerue
  57. “If you want to be happy, learn to be alone without being lonely. Learn that being alone does not mean being unhappy. The world is full of plenty of interesting and enjoyable things to do and people who can enrich your life.” - Michael Josephson
  58. “Next February I’m going to file a lawsuit against Valentine’s Day for singles’ discrimination.” - Unknown
  59. “Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.” - Henry Rollins
  60. “You’ve got to be fond of yourself enough to support yourself emotionally regardless of the intimate company of someone else.” - Chidere Eggerue
  61. “I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.” - Audrey Hepburn
  62. “Today is Valentine’s Day. Or, as men like to call it, Extortion day.” - Jay Leno
  63. “Happy Valentine’s Day! And if this is news to you, my guess is you’re probably alone. Valentine’s Day is oftentimes a, well, it’s a manufactured day that really doesn’t mean anything.” - Jon Stewart
  64. “Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.” - The Wizard of Oz
  65. “Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies.” - Carrie Bradshaw in “Sex in the City”
  66. “If acquiring a boyfriend was as easy as becoming fat, I certainly would have had one to share my Valentine’s Day with.” - Unknown
  67. “This year’s Valentine’s Day I will enjoy long, romantic walks to the fridge.” - Unknown
  68. “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
  69. “Valentine’s Day: the holiday that reminds you that if you don’t have a special someone, you’re alone.” - Lewis Black
  70. “Being single isn’t the cause of loneliness, and marriage is not necessarily the cure. There are many lonely married people as well.” - Renee Jones
  71. “Being single is about celebrating and appreciating your own space that you’re in.” - Kelly Rowland
  72. “The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.” - Ann Landers
  73. “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
  74. “Yes, it’s a virtue to grow and improve, but it’s important to remember that being single does not mean you’re flawed and in need of fixing. Your relationship or lack thereof has little to do with your worth.” - Jennifer Taitz For the best Valentine’s Day crafts, click here!

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