光棍節將至，每年到了這一日，無數單身男女都在為“脫光”而發愁。小編想說，其實單身沒什么好怕的，反而應當趁著年輕，好好享受這段珍貴的時光，不信，看看我們熟識的那些明星作家們是怎么說的：

My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude. - Warsan Shire
我一個人感覺很不錯，只有你的陪伴比我的獨處更甜蜜，我才會需要你。——沃森·賽爾

Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that. - Julie Delpy
很多女人因為害怕單身而逼自己戀愛，然后就開始妥協，失去個性。我是不會那樣做的。——朱麗·德爾比

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
以前，單身說明你沒人要。現在，單身說明你很性感，說明你正從容不迫地挑選自己想要的生活方式，挑選你想要與之一起生活的人。——《欲望都市》

Being single is getting over the illusion that there is somebody out there to complete you and taking charge of your own life. - Omkar Phatakc
不要幻想你的真命天子會來填補你的空缺、接管你的生活。真正的單身需要克服這種錯覺。——奧姆卡爾·帕塔科

If you have to ask someone to change, to tell you they love you, to bring wine to dinner, to call you when they land, you can't afford to be with them. - Sloane Crosley
如果一個人要在你的要求下才會改變、才會說愛你、才會在吃晚飯時帶酒、才會在飛機降落后給你打電話，那你們之間的關系是你無法承受的。——斯勞恩·克羅斯利

When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings. - Elizabeth Gilbert
這些天以來，我孤獨的時候會想：孤獨就孤獨吧，利茲。摸清孤獨周圍的路，做一張地圖，好好跟孤獨相處吧，這可是你從來沒試過的。歡迎前來體驗人生。不要再用別人的身體或感情來填補自己內心的空虛了。——伊利莎白·吉爾伯特

Personally, I, Mindy Kaling want to spend like 80 percent of my life hanging out with women. - Mindy Kaling
我明迪·卡琳想要用80%的人生和女人一起玩。——明迪·卡琳

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. - Anais Nin
一個女人期望著男人給她建造她理想中的世界，而不是自己親手創造，這真是大錯特錯。——阿娜伊斯·寧

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
在我看來，結婚的渴望是存在于女人最根本的思想當中的，這真是令我深感抱歉，而且這種渴望幾乎馬上會被一種同樣根本的訴求，也就是重新單身，所取代。——諾拉·埃夫龍

It is good to be lonely, for being alone is not easy. The fact that something is difficult must be one more reason to do it. - Rilke
孤獨是好事，因為孤身一人并不容易。一件事很困難也是去做這件事的理由。——里爾克

I celebrate myself, and sing myself. - Walt Whitman
我為自己歡慶，為自己歌唱。——沃爾特·惠特曼

Working long hours being single helps because your time is yours. Once you have a family your time isn't all yours anymore. Most of the Mac team, we were in our mid-20's, most of us were single, and we were able to essentially devote our lives to it. - Andy Hertzfeld
爭取長時間單身是很好的，因為單身時你的時間就是屬于你的。一旦你成家了，你的時間就不再全部屬于你了。我們大部分蘋果電腦產品團隊的成員都是25歲上下，大部分都是單身，所以我們可以全身心地投入工作。——安迪·赫茲菲爾德

I love being single. I can come and go as I please and stay out as late as I want to. - Eric Dickerson
我喜歡單身。我想來就來想走就走，想多晚回家就多晚回家。——埃里克·迪克森

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 Courdert
你不需要別人的愛，至少不是以犧牲自我為代價。單身關系就是與自我相處，是生活中真正重要關系。在你一生認識的人中，唯一永遠不會失去的就是你自己。——喬·庫爾德

If we seek paradise outside ourselves, we cannot have paradise in our hearts. - Thomas Merton
如果我們在自我之外尋找樂土，那我們的內心就不會擁有樂土。——托馬斯·默頓

Now I'm feeling how I should. Never knew single could feel this good. - Jason Derulo
現在我知道我該怎么做了，我以前從不知道單身也能讓我感覺怎么好。——杰森·德魯羅

I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don't see things clearly as long as you're still involved. - Dido Armstrong
重回單身真的讓我很享受。我在一段感情中花了很多時間，越臨近結束，這段感情就越艱難。旁觀者清，當局者迷啊。——蒂朵·阿姆斯特朗

I think, therefore I'm single. - Liz Winston
我思，故我單身。——莉茲.溫斯特

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly. - Voltaire
婚姻是唯一對懦弱之人開放的冒險。——伏爾泰

We did not come to remain whole.
我們來不是為全身而退，

We came to lose our leaves like the trees,
我們來是為了像樹一樣落葉，

Trees that start again. - Robert Bly
像樹一樣重新開始。——伯特·布萊

No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness. - Graham Greene
沒有人可以真正地理解他人，沒有人可以安排他人的幸福。——格雷厄姆·格林

To love blindly is to love selfishly, because the goal of such love is not the real advantage of the beloved but only the exercise of love in our own souls. - Thomas Merton
盲目的愛是自私的，因為這種愛不是出于為對方著想，而僅僅只是自我靈魂所做的愛情練習。——托馬斯·默頓

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. - Henry David Thoreau
我從沒找到過比“獨處”更好相處的伴侶。——亨利·戴維·梭羅

I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world. - Mindy Kaling
我把愛情喜劇看作是不入流的科幻，那里的世界用著和正常人類世界不一樣的規則。——明迪·卡琳

Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go. - Hermann Hesse
有的人認為堅持會讓我們變得更強大，但有時候放手才會讓我們變得更強大。——赫爾曼·黑塞

I like being single, I'm always there when I need me. - Art Leo
我喜歡單身，在我需要的時候我自己總會在我身邊。——阿爾特·雷歐

Discover why you're important, then refuse to settle for anyone who doesn't completely agree. - Fisher Amelie
尋找證明自己重要的理由，然后拒絕和不能完全同意的人在一起。——費希爾·艾米麗

I don't like to be labeled as lonely just because I am alone. - Delta Burke
我不想只是因為我是獨自一人就被貼上孤獨的標簽。——德爾塔·伯克

This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something. - Elizabeth Gilbert
心碎是個好兆頭，說明我們曾經嘗試過。——伊利莎白·吉爾伯特

I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself. - Warsan Shire
我沒有愛人，但我擁有愛。我可愛、孤獨，我就屬于我自己。——沃森·賽爾

（來源：滬江英語 編輯：丁一）