Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
Lillian Hellman
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Lillian Hellman
Age: 79 †
Born: 1905
Born: June 20
Died: 1984
Died: September 30
Actor
Author
Autobiographer
Librettist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
New Orleans
Louisiana
Lillian Florence Hellman
Always
Meant
People
Alone
Means
Else
Thought
Without
Mean
Loneliness
Something
Lonely
More quotes by Lillian Hellman
Fashions in sin change.
Lillian Hellman
Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.
Lillian Hellman
Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.
Lillian Hellman
If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point.
Lillian Hellman
Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.
Lillian Hellman
People change and forget to tell each other.
Lillian Hellman
Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
Lillian Hellman
Fear comes with middle age.
Lillian Hellman
failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
Lillian Hellman
It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
Lillian Hellman
If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
Lillian Hellman
Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation
Lillian Hellman
My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.
Lillian Hellman
Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.
Lillian Hellman
You lose your manners when you're poor.
Lillian Hellman
I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
Lillian Hellman
You are what you are. It is my opinion that trouble in the world comes from people who do not know what they are, and pretend to be something they're not.
Lillian Hellman
God forgives those who invent what they need.
Lillian Hellman
No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
Lillian Hellman
Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.
Lillian Hellman
