The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.
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.
As elsewhere on the site, each quote links to its own page with the source and the editors’ notes. If you want to put a name under a line in a card, check for a flag first.
Most quoted on retirement:
Long is the calm brain active in creation;
Time only strengthens the fine fermentation.
This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past.
You shouldn't chase after the past or place expectations on the future. What is past is left behind.
Old wood to burn! Old wine to drink! Old friends to trust! Old authors to read!
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
The principle of nowness is very important to any effort to establish an enlightened society.