Albert Camus Quotes

Well, I'm in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

The bad part about growing older is I'm going bald. The good part is my nose seems to be getting shorter.

After a certain age, you get the face you deserve.

By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

I feel I am a little bit older. Reckon I will start growing a beard next week.

I don't mind my age.

Past middle age, some friends suggested that I should have my eyebags removed, the deepening creases on my face stretched. I often examined my face in the mirror, imagining how I'd look if I followed the suggestion. I decided to retain the old mug. I was too familiar and comfortable with it. And the final hindrance: the cost.

Good looks are not something you earn. But as you get older, how you look is a reflection of the life you've led.

I'm grateful for my lines of wisdom. Of course, there are days when I think: 'Oh my gawd, I look a bit tired.' But I can pull it together if I have to.

You have to know how to evolve with age without trying to hang on to your younger image of yourself from the past.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

I still feel like an immature idiot inside, but I look in the mirror and - as a friend of mine once said- this old guy keeps getting in the way.

I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny - I looked like me.

I was looking in the mirror the other day and I realized I haven't changed much since I was in my twenties. The only difference is I look a whole lot older now.

I've looked in the mirror every day for 20 years. It's the same face.

I feel more grounded and more settled than I ever have. I don't know whether that is to do with my spirituality or whether I'm wiser about life, but as you age you become more selective about what you listen to, devote your time to and who you hang out with.

I love being middle-aged in general. I'm more at peace with myself now. I still have tormented times, but they are few and far between. You don't feel you have to be the centre of your world when you get older. Becoming a mother had been a turning point which stopped me from being the centre of my world.

The older one gets the more one comes to resemble oneself.

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Any young man coming of age has a lot to go through. Peter Parker certainly has a lot of responsibility, and without doubt, so does Pippin - his role, his life, and how he is going to perform it. It's all about choices and how we make them.

If you get a wrinkle, I don't feel that's indicative of your losing ground. That's ridiculous.

I'd never want to go back to being in my twenties or thirties. I was lost and confused and uncomfortable in my own skin.

As you get older, there's a loosening of the ties to the ego and the posturing of who you are and how you behave.

When you get into your 40s, it's all about lighting. It's hard. You have to face whether the way you look is your self-worth or not. Once you get beyond that, it's all about what's in your heart.