“The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.”

— Gabriel García Márquez, book One Hundred Years of Solitude

Chapter 10 http://books.google.com/books?id=pgPWOaOctq8C&q=%22The+secret+of+a+good+old+age+is+simply+an+honorable+pact+with+solitude%22&pg=PA199#v=onepage <br class="br">Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude." by Gabriel García Márquez?

Gabriel García Márquez218

Colombian writer 1927–2014

David Gemmell (1948–2006) British author of heroic fantasy

Source: Fall of Kings

“Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.”

George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism

Source: Persons and Places (1944), p. 61

“Honorable things, not secretive things, are sought by good men.”
Honesta enim bonis viris, non occulta quaeruntur.

Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman

Book III, section 38
De Officiis – On Duties (44 BC)

“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.”

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature

Source: The Aleph and Other Stories

“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.”

Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer

Variant: The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

“From 'What Happened to Auden'
His later manner leaves your neck-hair flat,
Not standing up as Housman said it should
When poetry has been achieved. For that,
In old age Auden simply grew too good.”

Clive James (1939–2019) Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator and memoirist

Poems and song lyrics

“Friends are admiring my age and health, and asking me the secret to live to such an age in good health. I usually answer them frankly: I have never paid attention to my health and age.”

Peter Chung Hoan Ting (1928) Malaysian catholic priest

Archbishop Emeritus Peter Chung celebrates his 90th birthday http://www.heraldmalaysia.com/news/archbishop-emeritus-peter-chung-celebrates-his-90th-birthday/44331/1 (September 21, 2018)

“We cannot rekindle the morning beams of childhood; we cannot recall the noontide glory of youth; we cannot bring back the perfect day of maturity; we cannot fix the evening rays of age in the shadowy horizon; but we can cherish that goodness which is the sweetness of childhood, the joy of youth, the strength of maturity, the honor of old age, and the bliss of saints.”

Henry Giles (1809–1882) Irish minister

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 287.

“they simply never understand,
do they,
that sometimes solitude
is
one of the most beautiful
things
on earth?”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

“Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.”

Philip Roth book Everyman

Source: Everyman (2006)

“The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.”

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Gabriel García Márquez218

Related quotes

Related topics