A Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
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I miss good old-fashioned honorable people just trying to make something of life. Simply, without hurting anyone else. I know that makes me a sap.
The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.
Some one has said of a fine and honorable old age, that it was the childhood of immortality.
He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
What is needed is, in the end, simply this: solitude, great inner solitude.
Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.
To a large extent, the aged in our society are ghettoized. Old people are seen as useless, bypassed by history, old-fashioned, in the way. So, not surprisingly, when we reach the official mark of old age, we're supposed to go gently into that good night, to get off center stage and hand over the spotlight. Old age is also surrounded by shame - the myth of impotence and inability.
They make a secret pact with themelves never to think about the future.
Our secret thoughts are rarely heard except in secret. No man knows what conscience is until he understands what solitude can teach him concerning it.
To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone— to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink — greetings!
Honorable, adj.: Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, "the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.".
Life grows darker as we go on, till only one pure light is left shining on it; and that is faith. Old age, like solitude and sorrow, has its revelations.
...what is romance, but a mutual pact of delusion? When the pact ends , there's nothing left.
The greatest tragedy of old age is the tendency for the old to feel unneeded, unwanted, and of no use to anyone; the secret of happiness in the declining years is to remain interested in life, as active as possible, useful to others, busy, and forward looking.
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