Charles Bukowski Quotes

I was single for so long, for 42 years.

I am single and not looking to be in a relationship.

Single life is so overrated.

When I was thirty and perhaps forty, I did not want a wife. It was too much fun being single.

I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all, I've never had a husband.

I'm happily single.

I'm what you call a satisfied single. I don't want to give any trip reports when I come home.

I've always been a loner, and I've spent most of my life as a single person.

I've been more single than not in my short life.

I didn't know how it was to be a bachelor. I never felt like one. I think it's a mental state.

I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit my head, there will be no one to make the phone call. But who wants to think about that disaster, I'd prefer not to.

All Bridget Jones did was give us a word for it - singleton - which was the worst possible thing.

A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.

A lot of women are afraid of loneliness, so when they see a woman who can live alone, then they think, 'Hmm, I can do that.' But you need an example, and that is why I am proud to say I have divorced three husbands.

I don't think that because I'm not married it's made my life any less. That old maid myth is garbage.

Singles are always simple.

I think I'll be single my whole life. It's entirely possible I'm going to end up alone. Because I don't want to make any sacrifices for my own development and achieving what I want to achieve, and I don't want a family to get in the way of that.

Not only is it not remarkable to be a single woman, there's no stigma attached. You see more and more women choosing to be single as well as happenstance.

What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.

Solitude is independence.

Single's fun - you don't have to check in with your girl, but it's not easy. I do get lonely.

The single life is not one I willingly chose for myself.

I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.

A man who is not with a woman is a dead man.

It is quite lovely being single, and I much prefer it.