Retirement
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“Live long enough and you’ll come into pensions, a lovely thing. Presents every month from people you didn’t know cared.”
An Open Book (1980)
“When I retired, I found I had not enough money and too much husband.”
in Helen Foster, It’s Hard to Look Graceful When You’re Dragging Your Feet (1983)
“Retirement, I feel, means a new adventure in living — not a stopping.”
A Woman Doctor Looks at Love and Life (1957)
“In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.”
in Count de Falloux, ed., The Writings of Madame Swetchine (1869)
“For millions, the retirement dream is in reality an economic nightmare. For millions, growing old today means growing poor, being sick, living in substandard housing, and having to scrimp merely to subsist.”
Sylvia Porter’s Money Book (1975)
“… I was born and bred an adventurer, with a great zest for change and excitement — and retirement is like prison.”
1950, in Artemis Cooper, ed., The Letters of Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper (1992)
“Retirement revives the sorrow of parting, the feeling of abandonment, solitude and uselessness that is
“Retirement … may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.”
The Coming of Age (1970)
“It’s daring and challenging to be young and poor, but never to be old and poor. Whatever resources of good health, character, and fortitude you bring to retirement, remember, also, to bring money.”
Making the Most of Your Money (1991)
“… how tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day.”
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)
“Work did bestow dignity, status, meaning. Wasn’t that why people dreaded unemployment, why some men found retirement so traumatic?”
Original Sin (1994)