Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s. ”

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over. ”

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. ”

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. ”

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person. ”

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death. ”

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger. ”

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life. ”

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. ”

Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go. ”