Cilla Black Quotes

I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave.

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

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.

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

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

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

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

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

I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me.

I survived turning 60, I was not thrilled to turn 61, I was less thrilled to turn 62, I didn't much like being 63, I loathed being 64, and I will hate being 65. I don't let on about such things in person; in person, I am cheerful and Pollyanna-ish. But the honest truth is that it's sad to be over 60.

I find, to my amazement, that I have reached the age of 90!

The furthest I can see is me being 60.

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.

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

Just hit my 75th birthday, I'm feeling great!

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

Yet there's something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.

What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

I'm the last guy left. That's what happens when you live to 84.

You know, I don't mind dying. The thing that pisses me off is that I won't get to be an old man. I was looking forward to that.

This year, when I turn 65, I thought, 'So weird;' when I was a kid, people who were 65 either retired or died. I'm so nowhere near that.