If you’re not coupled up on Valentine’s Day, then Feb. 14 is just Singles Awareness Day (SAD). Being single isn’t the worst thing in the world, though. Here are some quotes to hopefully cheer you up about not having a valentine.

  • “I like relationships and being in love, but I also like being single – you have to embrace all those different things.” — Dominic Monaghan (actor)
  • “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 (author)
  • “As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.” — Hermann Hesse (author)
  • “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 (rapper)
  • "As a self-described idealistic, I never consider myself as single. I like to say that I’m in between romances at the moment.” — Carl Henegan (author)
  • “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 (author)
  • “Being single is about celebrating and appreciating your own space that you’re in.” — Kelly Rowland (singer)
  • “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 (author)
  • "My alone feels so good, I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude." —Warsan Shire (poet)
  • "It seemed to me that the desire to get married — which, I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women — is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge, which is to be single again." — Nora Ephron (filmmaker)
  • “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 (author)
  • “You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.” — Maya Angelou (author)
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Here, an Indian vendor adjusts heart-shaped pillows hanging from a tree at a roadside stall ahead of Valentine's Day in Jalandhar, Feb. 9, 2018. Shammi Mehra/AFP/Getty Images
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