An emptiness rules at its core, a rottenness, a silence when one of you retires to bed without saying good night, when you eat together without conversation, when the phone's passed wordlessly to the other. An emptiness when every night you lie in the double bed, restlessly awake, astounded at how closely hate can nudge against love, can wind around it sinuously like a cat. An emptiness when you realize that the loneliest you've ever been is within a marriage, as a wife.
When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch.
The great secret of success is to go through life as a person who never gets used up. That is possible for those who never argue and strive with people and facts, but in all experience retires upon themselves, and look for the ultimate cause of things in themselves.
Carlos Tevez is so rich that when he retires he'll never have to play football again
You never replace a great scholar who retires. If you try to do that, you end up with burnt-out volcanoes.
When a jockey retires, he just becomes another little man
I will never contest election in Nigeria. Whenever my husband retires, I will go back home with him.
the little street Into its gloom retires, secluded and shy.
I don't think anybody ever really just retires where they don't do anything.
