Daya Quotes

I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a familiar sense of self-reliance and autonomy - is what I know; that feeling is as comfortable and comforting as it might be for a different kind of person to stay.

I'm used to living alone, and I like it that way. You become so selfish living alone...I'd make a terrible husband anyway.

I've always been very independent. Even in relationships, I'm focused on the quality of my life and not enmeshing myself so much with somebody else's experience. But I think there's incredible value in being married.

Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.

I'm actually quite self-sufficient, so it might look as if there isn't room for anyone in my life. That isn't entirely the case.

I believe in love, but I don't sit around waiting for it. I buy houses.

Remember we're all in this alone.

If I find the person that I love, it is because I love them, not because I will be dependent on them.

Even if you're independent, I think you get lonely.

I'm somewhat of a solitary person.

Never say never, I find I get claustrophobic in a relationship.

When you're independent, you're with somebody because you want to be there not because you feel like you have to be there.

To live in relationship and yet remain independent, that is what courage is.

At times it seems as if arranging to have no commitment of any kind to anyone would be a special freedom. But in fact the whole idea works in reverse. The most deadly commitment of all is to be committed only to one's self. Some come to realize this after they are in the nursing home.

I’d like to take care of someone but at the same time I like girls who are independent.

Personally, I'd rather grow old alone than in the company of anyone I've met so far. I don't experience myself as lonely, incomplete, or unfulfilled, but I don't talk about that much. It seems to piss people off--especially men. (Kinsey Millhone)

To remain alone did not seem to me a terrible fate, no worse than being falsely joined to another person.

Iran is independent and independence is not tolerated.

Today I will not wait for someone to come to my aid. I'm not helpless. Although help may come, I'm my own rescuer. My relationships will dramatically improve when I stop rescuing others and stop expecting others to rescue me.

The ability to produce every necessity of life renders us independent in war as well as in peace.

My inventory of people who can save me is down to just me.

I learned very soon to get along by myself.

If you fear loneliness, then don't get married.

No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.

I don't like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.