Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

Decay is quiet but ghastly, explosion is dramatic and dreadful. There's not much to choose between the two of them in reality, and most of our lives have sufficient of both. ”

Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life. ”

I don't think I've ever been lonely in my entire life. I love to shut my front door and be on my own. ”

I think it's such a clever idea, that you fall in love when you're 16, and then you have this fantasy about that person for the rest of your life. ”

You never know what life is going to throw at you, really, do you? ”

I now do my own cabaret act, singing and telling stories about my life. ”

The day that changed my life was 3 July 1986, when I went to see American actress and singer Barbara Cook at London's Donmar Warehouse. ”

I should be in an old people's home now, counting the roses in the wallpaper. It's a good life, isn't it? ”

I'm not homophobic. I mean, who cares? You know the state of the world, and you're only here for about 70, 80, years, so why do people worry about somebody's sex life? It's bonkers, really. ”

I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I was evacuated a couple of times for short periods. My schooling was very interrupted, both by frequent moves and by ill health. ”