Retirement Quotes
Retirement does not have a Wikiquote page, so this one borrows from three that do: work, time and age. The result suits a card or a send-off speech better than a close reading. There are lines about labour well done, about the years running on, and about being old that are rueful more often than sentimental.
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Most quoted on retirement:
Lots of things take time, and time was Momo's only form of wealth.
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
We do not have to wait for the hereafter — it is now that we are one with Christ.
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
The light of other days is faded,
And all their glories past.
God contemplates Himself and all things in an Eternal Now that has neither beginning nor end.
The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
Time,— that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.