Ingmar Bergman Quotes

Each way means loneliness -- and communion.

Not only is there no question of solitude, but in the long run we may not choose our company.

We are awakening from the dream of isolation, from the dream of loneliness, and it's a terrible shock.

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

You were one person alive and your brain was encased in a skull. There were other people out there. It took effort to be connected.

To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

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.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

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 love people. I hate to be by myself.

I want to be around people, not crickets.

Although I'm perceived as very optimistic and upbeat, it comes out of being the opposite of that - feeling isolated or lonely, looking for meaning and the kinds of things that ease that suffering in life, and finding them in large-scale social interaction, like theater and games.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

If loneliness is part of our essence, that is, our essential nature, that is only because of the way, in practical terms, we actually exist; that is, the way we move and work and live in the world.

The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness.

When even the most strictly logical mind looks round and investigates the phenomena attending its own existence, perhaps the first fact to attract attention by its strongly marked prominence is the remarkable loneliness of man. He stands alone.

I don't like being alone.

Living in a tower, however secure it may feel, is hardly a social attribute.

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

One major challenge within happiness is loneliness. The more I've learned about happiness, the more I've come to believe that loneliness is a terrible, common, and important obstacle to consider.

I'd always lived with people - my family, or had people living with me, because I'd never liked being on my own.

I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.