Quotes About Wasted

But luck can be spent, like money; and lost, like a memory; and wasted, like a life. If

My home was a provisional space in which the present was always wasted in dreaded anticipation of the future.

Kostbare tijd, die niet meer te achterhalen is, heb ik vermorst.

Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do

see how all our energies are wasted in providing for mere necessities, which gain have no further end than to prolong a wretched existence; and then that all our satisfaction concerning certain subjects of investigation ends in nothing better than a passive resignation

A human life the treasure of the world cannot buy; nor can it redeem one which is misspent; nor can it make full and complete and beautiful a life which is dwarfed and warped and ugly.

For me, the saddest thing in the world is always lost potential. That is always the most heartbreaking thing, when there's something left to be mined from a situation or a person that goes unexplored; that's a tragedy to me.

Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.

Most men die at age 25, but aren't buried until 70.

Is there anything so wretched as to look at a man of fine abilities doing nothing?

Lost time is never found again." ~ Benjamin Franklin

Remember that lost time does not return.

There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.

I sometimes wonder how many hours of my life I have wasted bitching about keyboards. The use of keyboards and synthesizers is the Roe v. Wade of '80s metal. It was-without question-the lamest instrument a band could use.

She thought (...) of the incalculable amount of tenderness contained in the world; of the fate of this tenderness, which is either crushed, or wasted, or transformed into madness; of neglected children humming to themselves in unswept corners; of beautiful weeds that cannot hide from the farmer and helplessly have to watch the shadow of his simian stoop leave mangled flowers in its wake, as the monstrous darkness approaches.

Out of love, No regrets-- Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets-- Though the return Be never.

Calling something "work" doesn't make it a more noble use of time than anything else. Work that doesn't advance you toward the life you want is still wasted time. You will never get those hours back, and we only get so many. Wrote Shakespeare in Richard II, "I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

I am like one who died young. All my life might have been.

varieties of sunken cheek, cadaverous

man who reviews his own life, as I do mine, in going on here, from page to page, had need to have been a good man indeed, if he would be spared the sharp consciousness of many talents neglected, many opportunities wasted, many erratic and perverted feelings constantly at war within his breast, and defeating him.

Although I myself, due doubtless to defective skill, have to work pretty hard, I do not believe in too hard work... A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.

So I dreamed. Aye one remembers With a sigh those dear Septembers; And I start, as well I may: I have wasted half a day.