Albert Camus Quotes

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.

I think alone time is good to know how to be alone with your own thoughts. I think it just helps you kind of be a better, more grounded person.

I use solitude as a judge and as a person - a lot.

The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be able to attain.

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.

There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude; and nothing more important.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Being alone & actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.

I happen to be pretty productive when I am in jail. When you are in jail, you have to spend more time with yourself.

I personally think that's incredibly therapeutic to just be alone in your own thoughts and not be freaking out.

The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal. Take long walks in the woods.

The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.

The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.

Travelling alone was like laundry for my thoughts.

In order to survive, you have to be alone with yourself to regenerate the spirit.

To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.

We must relearn to be alone.

Quiet time and solitude are vital to helping me keep perspective. I consider myself fortunate to have so much quiet built into my profession. I spend long hours by myself at my easel. And while I work, I think-of the future, of my loved ones, of God's goodness and the many exciting opportunities that surround me. I ponder the challenges I face, the needs of others, the direction my life is going.

Solitude does not pull us away from our fellow human beings but instead makes real fellowship possible.

A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification.

I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.

Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone.

On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure of what spirit there is.