Albert Camus Quotes

I longed to be forgotten in order to be able to complain to myself.

Self-absorption intensifies isolation, but permits it to go unnoticed.

All my life I had feared imprisonment, the nun's cell, the hospital bed, the places where one faced the self without distraction, without the crutches of other people.

The numbing mind-ream of knowing you're alone not because people won't accept you but because you find so little worth accepting. An imposed solitude is better than simply tolerating your company in waiting for something better. So loneliness is not such a terrible thing when you consider that the alternative to thought provoking solace is to be surrounded only by remindings of why that solitude is preferable.

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.

I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.

I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.

I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.

In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it.

When you are alone and too tired even to turn on any of your devices, you let yourself linger in a past stacked among your pillows.

The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

When you hear a solo piano, there's a solitude about just one instrument playing. It can be beautiful; it can be sad.

I would go home and be this insular girl who listened to music and brooded in her bedroom.

One of the saddest things I've ever done is download 'I'm A Teenage Dirtbag' by Wheatus and play along with it with my headphones on. Oh, God. If you were to walk in and see me do that, you would really worry for me.

I sit at my window gazing The world passes by, nods to me And is gone.

I am more sensitive than other people. Things that other people would not notice awaken a distinct echo in me, and in such moments of lucidity, when I look at myself, I see that I am alone, all alone, all alone.

When people looked at him they had the feeling of being shut out. He did not shut them out. He shut himself in.

And sleep, that sometime shuts up sorrow's eye, Steal me awhile from mine own company.

Why has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone.

I spent most of my time talking to God more than to people.

From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone else’s. She read books at enormous speed and judged them entirely on her ability to remove her from her material surroundings. In almost all the unhappiest days of her life she had been able to escape from her own inner world by living temporarily in someone else’s, and on the two or three occasions that she had been too upset to concentrate she had been desolate.

Poets knew that isolation in nature, far from people and things man-made, was good for the soul, and he'd always identified with poets.

The sound of loneliness makes me happier.

There was something special about being in a strange place, all alone in a mass of people even if you had just screwed up your life, or perhaps especially if you had just screwed up your life.