5 Albert Camus Quotes on Solitude

Albert Camus quotes on solitude

97. Manhattan. Sometimes from beyond the skyscrapers, across of thousands of high walls, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia in the middle of the night, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.

122. Even men without a gospel have their Mount of Olives. And one must not fall asleep on theirs either.

127. Every ethic based on solitude implies the exercise of power.

181. One of the temptations of an artist is to believe himself solitary ...But this is not true. He stands in the midst of all, in the same rank

232. To force solitude on a man who has just come to understand that he is not alone, is that not the definitive crime against man?