And time can heal, but this won’t
So if you’re coming my way, just don’t
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:
From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime
Out of Space—out of Time.
Not heaven itself upon the past has power;
But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.