Albert Camus Quotes About Solitude

• She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region of her heart.

  Albert Camus

  Heart, Waiting, Solitude

  Albert Camus (1964). “The fall, & Exile and the kingdom”, Random House Inc

• Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal” some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.

  Albert Camus

  Self, Giving, Solitude

• In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

  Albert Camus

  Order, Solitude, World

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.157, Vintage

• To understand one's world, one must sometimes turn away from it! To serve better, one must briefly hold it at a distance. Where can the necessary solitude be found, the long breathing space in which mind gathers its strength and takes stock of its courage.

  Albert Camus

  Distance, Breathing Space, Long

• The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Courage, Lying

  Albert Camus (1968). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”

• After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of creation, unbearable solitude and the exhausting crowd, rejection and consent.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Pain, Lying

• Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

  Albert Camus

  Solitude, Religion, Weight

  Albert Camus (1964). “The fall, & Exile and the kingdom”, Random House Inc

• There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value.

  Albert Camus

  Solitude, Poverty, Values

  "Between Yes and No," World Review magazine,"Between Yes and No," World Review magazine, March, 1950.

• In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion; in order to serve others better, one has to hold them at a distance for a time. But where can one find the solitude necessary to vigor, the deep breath in which the mind collects itself and courage gauges its strength? There remain big cities.

  Albert Camus

  Distance, Order, Cities

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.157, Vintage

• For instance, I never complained that my birthday was overlooked; people were even surprised, with a touch of admiration, by my discretion on this subject. But the reason for my disinterestedness was even more discreet: I longed to be forgotten in order to be able to complain to myself... Once my solitude was thoroughly proved, I could surrender to the charms of a virile self-pity.

  Albert Camus

  Self, Order, People

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.85, Vintage

• Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right for me to die alone, after having lived and killed alone.

  Albert Camus

  Solitude, Together, Crime

• Over there, in Europe, all was shame and anger. Here it was exile or solitude, among these languid and agitated madmen who danced in order to die.

  Albert Camus

  Anger, Order, Europe

• Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.

  Albert Camus

  Solitude, Violence, Working Conditions

  Albert Camus, Jean Grenier (2003). “Correspondence, 1932-1960”, p.195, U of Nebraska Press

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