We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest. Horace
Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. Harry Emerson Fosdick
The worst death for anyone is to lose the center of his being, the thing he really is. Retirement is the filthiest word in the language. Whether by choice or by fate, to retire from what you do - and makes you what you are - is to back up into the grave. Ernest Hemingway
I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make. Thomas Jefferson
A childish feeling, I admit, but, when we retire from the conventions of society and draw close to nature, we involuntarily become children: each attribute acquired by experience falls away from the soul, which becomes anew such as it was once and will surely be again. Mikhail Lermontov
If you really want to annoy me, ask me when I'm going to retire from rock n' roll. Bruce Dickinson