William Faulkner - Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.
George Henry Lewes - The only cure for grief is action.
Wendell Berry - Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone.
Shakespeare, Sonnet I - My grief lies onward and my joy behind.
C.S. Lewis - Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love. It follows marriage as normally as marriage follows courtship or as autumn follows summer.
William Shakespeare - Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak Whispers the o’re-fraught heart, and bids it break.
Barbara Mikulski - Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.
Jerry Doyle - I believe in financial retirement. I don't necessarily believe in physical retirement.
Sylvia Townsend Warner - Total grief is like a minefield. No knowing when one will touch the tripwire.
Seneca - The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
Melanie M. Koulouris - Life is a beautiful collage of priceless moments and memories, which when pieced all together creates a unique treasured masterpiece.
General George S. Patton - It is foolish to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
Lyndon Baines Johnson - All I have I would have given gladly not to be standing here today.
Ronald Reagan - Wherever a beautiful soul has been there is a trail of beautiful memories.
Barry Ritholtz - 'Returnless risk' is not how you prepare for a decent retirement.
Arthur Schopenhauer - Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.
Terry Pratchett - Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?
Nikita Gill - You are gone, but thank you for all these soft, sweet things you have left behind in my home, in my head, in my heart.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.
Ghandi - Here are no good-byes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.
Abhinav Bindra - I am done; I have announced my retirement, so there is no reconsideration. I am not going to shoot again.
Barton Gellman - We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.
Earl Grollman - Grief is not a disorder, a disease or a sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve.
Pema Chodron - Healing comes from letting there be room for all of “this” to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.
A.A. Milne - How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing - Everyone can master a grief but he that has it.
F. Scott Fitzgerald - I wish I had done everything on earth with you.
Ann Widdecombe - That's the joy of retirement - you're not trying to develop a career any more.
Michelle McCool - Retirement has been wonderful.
Emily Dickinson - That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.
Denis Waitley - A good life is a collection of happy moments.
J.R.R. Tolkein - I will not say: Do not weep; For not all tears are evil.
Helen Keller - What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes part of us.
Thomas Moore - Earth has no sorrows that heaven can’t heal.
Fred MacMurray - I was fishing with director Frank Capra once and we talked about retirement.
Bill Flores - I am philosophically opposed to raising the retirement age. I misspoke and said I was not philosophically opposed.
Marcel Proust - We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.
C.S. Lewis - Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.
Dr. Seuss - Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.
Shakespeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost - Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!
William Cowper - Grief is itself a medicine.
Davy Jones - It used to be 65 when you went into retirement. Before that, when you got into your 50s, you were getting older.
Joan Hickson - Retirement is fatal. Luckily, in my profession, you don't have to retire.
Victoria Alexander - There are three needs of the griever: To find the words for the loss, to say the words aloud and to know that the words have been heard.
George Eliot - She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with It as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
J.M. Barrie - God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
Samuel Johnson - While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
Renoir - The pain passes, but the beauty remains.
Toussaint Louverture - I accept everything which is favorable for the people and the army; for myself, I wish to live in retirement.
Carol Vorderman - For now I'm building up stories for the retirement home!
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