Hugh Hefner Quotes

Turning 70 was a real shock. I thought, 'I'm on the last lap now.'

I'm approaching 70. Unfortunately, from the wrong direction.

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative.

Retiring is getting ready to die.

I'm not tough anymore, I'm 82.

Old. A viable die-able age.

After you retire, there's only one big event left....and I ain't ready for that.

I'm surrounded by the scene of aging. I myself am in my 70s and not getting any younger. Although I'm very healthy, and I have a lot of energy, and I still feel 50, I'm over 70 and I understand that I am preparing for later.

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

Old age is the verdict of life.

We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but the bringing of these feet together.

My audience is going to die before I do.

Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

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

You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.

To retire is to begin to die.

I don't want to die an old lady.

I don’t like getting old at all, but then again, who does?

Of course, it's no fun getting old and getting sick and dying; we all know that's coming, and it's a bore.

I have no desire to be a centenarian. I think 90 is a great time. You've had a good innings. You have to deal with the cards that have been dealt, of course, but I don't think very old age, if you haven't got your marbles, can be very nice.