I recently turned 60 years old. Practically a third of my life is over.

The line is a characteristic Woody Allen joke built on bleak arithmetic and self-deprecation. By treating sixty as “practically a third” of a life, the speaker implies an absurdly long lifespan (around 180 years), turning what is usually a milestone associated with aging into a comic expression of denial and wishful thinking. The humor also depends on Allen’s familiar persona: anxious about mortality yet determined to deflate it with wit. Beneath the gag is a recognizable human impulse to reframe time passing—using exaggeration to soften the emotional weight of getting older.