75 Quotes About Wasted-time

"In a strange way, I envied the quality of Morrie's time even as I lamented its diminishing supply. Why did we bother with all the distractions we did?"

"She had to defend him in order to defend herself. That was why people were so prickly about their partners, even their ex-partners. To admit that Duncan wasn't up to much was to own up publicly to the terrible waste of time, and terrible lapses in judgment and taste. She had stuck up for Spandau Ballet in just the same way at school, even after she had stopped liking them."

"Regret for wasted time is more wasted time"

"I never liked to just absorb something somebody else created. I’m too self-conscious, and too critical, I guess, and it always felt like I was wasting time. But after you went away... well, it started to feel like time was wasting me. Every tick of the second hand was like a needle in my skin. Tick, tick, tick..."

"So you can get on with your search, baby And I can get on with mine And maybe someday we will find That it wasn't really wasted time"

"He dreamed of deserts and great empty cities and imagined he could feel the minutes and hours of his life running through him, as though he were nothing but an hourglass of flesh and bone."

"You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted."

"Sometimes to keep it together, you've got to leave it alone."

"Across my life only one work will be written: "waste" _ waste of love, waste of talent, waste of enterprise."