Retired August

Famous quotes containing the words retired and/or august:

“Business, old man, I said, retire from business, it has retired from you.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)

“Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is essentially an interruption of habits, it can be replaced by new habits. Constituting, as it does, a void, it is soon filled up by a real “horror vacui.””
—J. August Strindberg (1849–1912)