49 Quotes by Liv Ullmann

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.

If a person is found dead here, a postmorten will always reveal whether he has spent less than three weeks in the city. That is the length of time it takes this pollution to invade the body, after which it is there forever.

Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.

it is only in statistics that people die by the millions. Each person dies individually, in his own predicament.

Choice is the essence of what I believe it is to be human.

What I have always loved most in men is imperfection. I get moved by the wrinkles on the throat of a man. It makes me love him more. I think it is sad that more women don't take the chance that maybe men will be moved by seeing the chin a little less firm than it used to be, that a man will be more in love with his wife because he remembers who she was and sees who she is and thinks, God, isn't that lovely that this happened to her. And be moved by life telling its story there.

We who are alive at this moment are only an infinitesimal part of something that has existed for eternity and will continue when there is no longer anything to show that earth existed. Still, we must feel and believe that we are all.

I believe we come to earth with sealed orders. I believe that only those who lack passion look down on purpose.

I looked into the mirror and saw this middle-aged woman who keeps invading my face.