Greta Garbo

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said 'I want to be let alone!' There is all the difference. ↗

— Greta Garbo

#freedom #privacy #respect #solitude #freedom

There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead. ↗

— Greta Garbo

#am #difficult #get #get married #go

How can one change one's entire life and build a new one on one moment of love? And yet, that's what you make me want to close my eyes and do. ↗

— Greta Garbo

#chance #life #love #change

I'm a completely worthless woman and no man should risk his life for me. ↗

— Greta Garbo

#camille #deject #life #love #worth

Why haven't I got a husband and children?" mused Greta Garbo to the Dutchess of Windsor, "I never met a man I could marry. ↗

— Greta Garbo

#dutchess #honest #husband #man #married

I'm not always sincere. One can't be in this world, you know. ↗

— Greta Garbo

#life #sincerity #world #life

Why should you care for a woman like me? I'm always nervous or sick, or sad or too gay. ↗

— Greta Garbo

#love #love

Perhaps it's better if I live in your heart, where the world can't see me. If I'm dead, there will be no stain on our love. ↗

— Greta Garbo

#death #love #death

I don't want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures. ↗

— Greta Garbo

#cannot #doing #dressed #getting #getting dressed

If you are blessed, you are blessed, whether you are married or single. ↗

— Greta Garbo

#married #single #whether #you