Liv Ullmann Quotes

I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.

I can't be alone.

Fear is the loneliest feeling. You can be in a throng of people, but if you're afraid, you're on your own.

the lonliest sound in the world is other people making love.

It occurred to her suddenly, sharply, that she wanted to be in love... She wanted not to feel so damned alone in the world.

People who were born alone are defined by feelings like "Who's gonna be with me when I die? Who will ever understand me? Will I always feel so alone? Maybe if I write a book..." and you forget that that doesn't help you so much.

Marriage will not solve "aloneness."

It's better to wake up alone knowing that you're alone, than waking up with someone and still be lonely

Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other people. The happiness which can be achieved along this path is, as we see, the happiness of quietness. Against the dreaded external world one can only defend oneself by some kind of turning away from it, if one intends to solve the task by oneself.

I've never been lonely. I've been in a room... I've felt suicidal, I've been depressed. I've felt awful ... awful beyond all , but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude.

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 find running life quite hard, and I like sharing that. Obviously, the companionship, being loved and loving, is fantastic. But I don't feel that I couldn't live without a boyfriend or lover or husband.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.

I am never bored, never short of anything to do and I don't even ever feel lonely. I am quite gregarious and I get out and about a lot, but sometimes it is just wonderful to be on your own.

I really don't like that modern notion of 'I don't need anyone.' I see a lot of young women feeling they have to be that way, they have to be hard, in a way. And what does that bring them? They're just going to be lonesome. They're going to be, at best, lonesome and capable, at worst, lonesome and hard. And is that what we want? No.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter.

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.

I can go days without meaningful human interaction.

I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be.

Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different.

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

I have many good friends, but I tend to keep to myself anyway. It's odd, doing things and having no one to share them with.

It's no fun being lonely.