Liv Ullmann Quotes

I believe that it is sometimes less difficult to wake up and feel that I am alone when I really am, than to wake up with someone else and be lonely.

I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.

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.

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

What good is sitting all alone in your room?

For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated, just communicating with these authors through their sentences helped me.

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

People think it's terribly sad to spend Christmas alone, but it's no sadder, really, than spending any other day alone, is it?

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

I understand being alone. I understand not liking it, wishing for something else.

I was alone more than most kids.

People think being alone is a luxury, but it's crucial: Whatever you're not down with about yourself gets loud and in your face.

We are always in our own company.

being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.

Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely.

I just think that sometimes it is less hard to wake up feeling lonely when you are alone than to wake up feeling lonely when you are with someone else. Some people would be better off alone, but they feel they've got to get hold of someone to prove they're worthwhile.

If one didn't have love, was it better, then, to be alone?

Feeling alone guides the mind.

I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let's face it, we don't often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we.

It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.

So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.