Albert Camus Quotes About Age

• People don't love each other at our age, Marthe—they please each other, that's all. Later on, when you're old and impotent, you can love someone. At our age, you just think you do. That's all it is.

  Albert Camus

  Love, Thinking, People

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.33, Vintage

• To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.

  Albert Camus

  Passion, Age, Aging

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1942-1951”

• Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

  Albert Camus

  Birthday, Men, Age

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.57, Vintage

• Thus, I always began by assuming the worst; my appeal was dismissed. That meant, of course, I was to die. Sooner than others, obviously. 'But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow.' And, on a wide view, I could see that it makes little difference whether one dies at the age of thirty or threescore and ten-- since, in either case, other men will continue living, the world will go on as before. Also, whether I died now or forty years hence, this business of dying had to be got through, inevitably.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Differences, Views

• I felt as I hadn't felt for ages. I had a foolish desire to burst into tears. for the first time I'd realized how all these people loathed me.

  Albert Camus

  People, Tears, Age

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

• At the age of 40, having ordered meat very rare in restaurants all his life, he realized he actually liked it medium and not at all rare.

  Albert Camus

  Age, Meat, Restaurants

• To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing.

  Albert Camus

  Passion, Forgiving, Age

• But the world itself has no reason, and I can say so, I who have experienced it all, from the creation to the destruction.

  Albert Camus

  Age, Experience, World

• Old married people look so much alike that they have the same number of hairs in their ears.

  Albert Camus

  Marriage, Hair, Numbers

• Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day when crime puts on the apparel of innocence, through a curious reversal peculiar to our age, it is innocence that is called on to justify itself. The purpose of this essay is to accept and study that strange challenge.

  Albert Camus

  Challenges, Age, Peculiar

  Albert Camus (1965). “Caligula and Cross purpose”

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