Greta Garbo

I want to be alone.

— Greta Garbo

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

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

— Greta Garbo

I am bewildered by the thousands of strange people who write me letters. They do not know me. Why do they do that?

— Greta Garbo

There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them.

— Greta Garbo

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

— Greta Garbo