75 Single on Valentine's Day Quotes for Strong, Independent Women Who Are Flying Solo

Valentine's quotes for the single ladies.

Alright, ladies living the solo life—whether you're glad about it (or not), February 14 is officially here and you're single on Valentine's Day.

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

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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”

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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

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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

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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

44. “Love stinks.” - J. Geils Band

45. “The last thing you want to get addicted to is someone.” – Aruho Marvin

46. “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

47. “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

48. “Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.” - W. Somerset Maugham in “A Writer's Notebook”

49. “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

50. “You don’t need a significant other to lead a significant life.” ― Mandy Hale

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51. “...the very acknowledgment that women have selves that exist independently of others, and especially independent of husbands and children, is revolutionary.” – Rebecca Traister

52. “If lovers get half price off on Valentine’s Day, then singles should just get everything for free!” – Unknown

53. “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

54. “Solitude is the place of purification.” - Martin Buber

55. “No girl should ever forget that she doesn’t need anyone who doesn’t need her.” – Marilyn Monroe

56. “When you’re single, all you see are happy couples. When you’re committed, all you see are happy singles.” - Unknown

57. “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

58. “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

59. “Next February I’m going to file a lawsuit against Valentine’s Day for singles’ discrimination.” - Unknown

60. “Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.” - Henry Rollins

61. “You’ve got to be fond of yourself enough to support yourself emotionally regardless of the intimate company of someone else.” - Chidere Eggerue

62. “I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.” - Audrey Hepburn

63. “Today is Valentine's Day. Or, as men like to call it, Extortion day.” - Jay Leno

64. “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

65. "Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable." - The Wizard of Oz

66. “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”

67. “If acquiring a boyfriend was as easy as becoming fat, I certainly would have had one to share my Valentine’s Day with.” - Unknown

68. “This year’s Valentine’s Day I will enjoy long, romantic walks to the fridge.” - Unknown

69. “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

70. “Valentine's Day: the holiday that reminds you that if you don't have a special someone, you're alone.” - Lewis Black

71. “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

72. “Being single is about celebrating and appreciating your own space that you're in.” - Kelly Rowland

73. “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

74. “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

75. “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

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