Liv Ullmann Quotes

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

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.

Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken.

Be alone even when there's a million people around, because tomorrow it will be a different million people.

I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

I was never less alone than when by myself.

Yes, I do seek solitude, but I am never lonely.

There's a difference between loneliness and solitude. You pursue solitude, I think. But loneliness is a completely different isolating thing.

Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone.

Solitude is the human condition in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to split up into the two-in-one, without being able to keep myself company.

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

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

A person has to be by himself a little bit. We weren’t born in a flock. Togetherness drives me out of my mind.

True individuality can be lonely.

I've been living alone for so long, everything about me’s private. I’m surprised anyone’s able to understand a word I say.

Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.

Our age is so gregarious that there is at present a marked prejudice against anyone being alone. It is looked down on, and a need to be alone is almost considered a fault, a weakness, as though if one cannot endure - more - enjoy being with other people every minute one is aloof, unreal, and somehow to be pitied.

But he had gone his way, the grass all mown, And I must be, as he had been - alone, As all must be, I said within my heart, Whether they work together or apart.

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

It is only when a man is alone that he is really free.

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

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.

I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.