Liv Ullmann Quotes

ليس مهمًا الوصول، بل الالتزام دائمًا بالطريق، بالتحرُّك المتواصل.

أعتقد أنه أقلّ صعوبة أحيانًا أن أستيقظ وأشعر أني وحيدة حين أكون كذلك، على أن أستيقظ مع إنسانٍ آخر وأكون معه وحيدة.

العديد من أحلامي لم يتحقَّق أبدًا، لكني اكتشفتُ ما لم أحلم به قط: أنَّ الواقعَ يمكن أن يكون رائعًا حتى عندما لا تكون الحياة كذلك.

It is better to wake up alone, knowing you are alone, than to wake up with someone, still being lonely.

لا يمكن لأحدٍ أن يُقنعني بالتخلِّي عن شيءٍ اليوم لصالح احتمالاتٍ تخصُّ الغد، أو لوعودٍ مستقبليّة.

لقد نسيتُ كم هي حقيقيةٌ، تجارب الطفولة تلك التي نسميها نحن البالغون خيالًا جامحًا. بالنسبة إلى الطفل هي ليست خيالًا: الخوف من أن يترك وحده، والذئب الخبيث، والعتمة في الخزانة -كلها حقيقية. لكننا نُطلقُ عليها أسماءًا لنجعلها أشياءًا أخرى. إننا نقول عن الشيء الحقيقي إنه خيال - وهذا بالذات هو الخيال.

أنا أولًا وقبل كل شيء كائنٌ بشريّ.

لعلَّ النضجَ يعني أيضًا أن ندع الآخرين يُحقِّقون ذواتهم.

أتمنى أن أجدَ اثنين من النّاس ينموان معًا، جنبًا إلى جنب، وكل منهما يجلبُ الفرحَ للآخر، بدون أن يكونَ على أحدهما أن يُسحقَ لكي يبقى الآخرُ قويًا.

Books have always been living things to me. Some of my encounters with new authors have changed my life a little. When I have been perplexed, looking for something I could not define to myself, a certain book has turned up, approached me as a friend would. And between it's cover carried the questions and the answers I was looking for.

لعل من الحمق أن يولع الإنسان بشخص سيرحل قبله بوقت طويل

الأشخاص الذين تلامستْ حياتهم يحتاجونَ إلى تجديد الاتصال، حتى بعد أن يذهب كلٌ منهم في اتجاهٍ مختلفٍ، حتى إنْ أصبحتْ حياةُ كلٍ منهم الجديد جزءًا مما يتقاسمونه الآن. لا أحدَ يمتلكُ أي شخصٍ آخر. إننا معًا يملكُ كلٌ منا الآخر والطبيعة والزمن. الأمرُ بهذه البساطة.

إنَّ الخطرَ يوجدُ حين تنعدم الوسائل لمكافحته.

أريد أن أكتب عن الحب - عن كوني كائنًا بشريًا - عن العزلة - عن كوني امرأة

ليتنا فقط جميعًا نتقبّلُ أنه لا فرقَ بيننا في القيَم الإنسانية، مهما كان جنسنا، ومهما كان نوع الحياة التي اخترنا أن نعيشها.

We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked; not just pitter-patter, but “real” talk. We shouldn’t be so afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable. It’s so much easier to be together when we drop our masks.

Only then, when no situation or character is obviously good or evil, is it truly interesting to act.

الحياة قصيرة جدًا ولا يمكن لأحد أن يقنعني بالتخلي عن شيء اليوم لصالح احتمالات تخص الغد أو لوعود مستقبلية

ثمّة حقيقة للأحاديث - وأخرى للحياة.

إننا معشر الأحياء في هذه اللحظة ما نحن إلا جزء متناهي الصغر من شيءٍ وُجِد إلى الأبد وسيظلُ مستمرًا حين تصبحُ الأرض أثرًا بعد عين.

أخشى أن أزعج الآخرين ، أخشى أن أؤذي مشاعرهم ، أخشى أن أدمر تنكري كفتاة مهذبة

إنّنا بحاجةٍ إلى الحبّ ونرغبُ في منحهِ.

لقد حققت حلمًا واحدًا ولملمت عشرة أخرى جديدة عوضًا عنه

أري نفسي أشبه بمنخل تنفذ من خلالي مشاعر الجميع لكني لا أقدر بأي حال أن أحتفظ بها

هل الوجهة مهمة -أم أنّ المهمّ هو القيام بالخطوة الفعلية لاجتياز عتبة الباب؟ إنها الإرادة للالتقاء بعالمٍ يقعُ خلف أمان المرء الراسخ.

لعل ما أفتش عنه على الدوام هو مملكة الطفولة الضائعة

You let go. And that’s a good lesson to learn in life. Let go. Don’t grow into a bitter and ‘What if?’ and ‘What if I’d done this?’ Never, never. Let go.

I was lonely, but that loneliness belonged to me, it was nothing he created. Nobody creates your loneliness. Nobody creates that darkness you have in your tummy. You know, because we all have that. It’s how we deal with it, that’s what makes the difference.

I hope that two people can grow together, side by side, and bring joy to each other. Without one having to be crushed so that the other may stay strong. Perhaps maturing is also to let others be. To allow myself to be what I am.

Det er bedre å våkne alene og vite at en er alene, end å våkne sammen med noen og allikevel være ensom.

Once you are with someone lovely, part of that loveliness will always be with you. Once you are with a genius, some of that will be with you. It’s contagious to be with good people...

I had the library as a fixed point every day.... A place to be, a place to belong.

Fear is a prison from which love can never emerge.

Nós, que estamos vivos, neste momento, somos apenas uma parte infinitesimal de algo que existe há uma eternidade e continuará a existir, quando não houver mais nada servindo como prova da existência da Terra. Entretanto, precisamos sentir e acreditar que somos tudo. Essa é a nossa responsabilidade — não apenas para conosco mesmos, mas para com tudo e todos com quem partilhamos o nosso tempo de existência.

Nothing ever comes to an end. Wherever one has sunk roots that emanate from one’s best or truest self, one will always find a home. To return is not to revisit something that has failed. I can walk along the old paths without bitterness that other feet are now taking pleasure in them. The sea is there just as it always has been.

The Touch is a fine companion piece to the film that preceeded it: En Passion (1969), which is generally known in English as The Passion of Anna but would be far better translated as ‘A Passion’, as it’s protagonist is not Anna (Liv Ullmann) but the reclusive divorcé Andreas (von Sydow), who undergoes a passion in the biblical sense of a process of suffering. He, like Karin [in The Touch], is touched by the interest shown in him by a new acquaintance and responds by trying to give - and hence receive - love; like Karin too, he finds that such an ambition is not that easy to achieve, since other people are not always as straightforward or accepting as we’d like them to be. Like The Passion of Anna, The Touch ends on an image of solitude, indecision, immobility - but also of freedom and open-endedness. A pause before an unknown future; a moment of truth and self-awareness. A glimmer, then, of hope.

I live, rejoice, grieve, and I am always struggling to become grown up. Yet every day, because something I do affects her, I hear that young girl within me. She who many years ago was I. Or who I thought was.....Some mornings I decide to live her life, be something other than what ordinarily is my daily role. I snuggle close to my daughter before she is awake, feel her warm, peaceful breathing, and hope that through her I may become what I wished to be.

We come into this world with sealed orders.

It is good to put behind one the desire to live the life of the surroundings. Get to know oneself better, understand the reason for one’s needs. Perceive more clearly the motivations of others and recognize my own fear and insecurity in them.

I made better contact with others. I found respect when I became independent, ceased to cling. Ceased to rely so desperately on others for my own happiness. Demands and expectations on other people’s behaviour, in order to make me secure, vanished. Not quite. Not forever. But I never reverted to the old state.

It is feeling itself that has driven her work between credits, curtains, and book covers for all these years. Or perhaps more specifically, yearning. To Ullmann, so much of the human condition—and, acutely, her own—is constantly "seeking a way out of the misery of being unseen.

I am always quoting a sentence of Kierkegaard's even though he may not have written it: 'We come into this world with sealed orders.