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Quotes About Wasted

Cinquenta anos perdidos. Cinquenta anos gastos sem objetivo, a maltratar-me e a maltratar os outros. Cinquenta anos, quantas horas inúteis… Estraguei a minha vida. Estraguei-a estupidamente.
~ Graciliano Ramos
She left, feeling sullen over her wasted afternoon and wasted bus fare. It was her first experience with the sexological advertiser, though she was to find out he was fairly common. Usually he was some phony calling himself a writer, an agent, or a talent scout, who had found out that for a dollar and a half's worth of newspaper space he could have a daylong procession of girls at his door, all desperate for work, all willing to do almost anything to get it.
~ James M. Cain
It's going to give you nightmares for the rest of your wasted life. Oh, my God, I was so badass. It was all I could do not to give a mwa ha ha!
~ James Patterson
There are so many young women who throw their talent away.
~ Britt Ekland
Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
~ Thomas Gray
with patrons who wasted their quarters on Lynyrd Skynyrd all night long.
~ Tiffanie DeBartolo
Hear that, Mr. De Pfeffel Cantab or whatever your name is? That's the sound of the villa in the South of France you could have bought crumbling to dust.
~ Tim Collins
I am the Terrible Trivium, demon of petty tasks and worthless jobs, ogre of wasted effort, and monster of habit." The
~ Norton Juster
Commend him gently, whom the wrath he suckled at his heart has wasted more than years.
~ Cormac McCarthy
That was all her prayer—not for his soul or his righteousness, but that he might not be wasted. And while he slept, for hours and hours, she thought and prayed for him.
~ D.H. Lawrence
Lost time is never found again.
~ Walter Isaacson
We have squandered a lot of time on this, and the result looks like a gift from the devil's grandmother.
~ Walter Isaacson
Here he produced two immense folded packets, which appeared each to contain a whole ream of closely written manuscript. They had been the labour of the worthy man's whole life; and never were labour and zeal more absurdly wasted.
~ Walter Scott
Heat magazine - the tittering idiot's lunchbreak-pamphlet-of-choice - has caused a bad stink by printing a collection of comedy stickers in its latest issue. Said stickers are clearly designed to be stuck round the fringes of computer monitors by the magazine's bovine readership in a desperate bid to transform their veal-fattening workstation pen into a miniature Chuckle Kingdom and thereby momentarily distract them from the bleak futility of their wasted, Heat-reading lives
~ Charlie Brooker
What point was there otherwise to the suffering he had gone through? What point to his grandfather's death on the very night before his operation? It was a warning, a cautionary call that life was short, too short to be wasted.
~ Chet Williamson
There are few sights sadder than a ruined book.
~ Lemony Snicket
I was wrong when I said that I did not regret the past. I do regret it; I weep for that past love which can never return. Who is to blame, I do not know. Love remains, but not the old love; its place remains, but it all wasted away and has lost all strength and substance; recollections are still left, and gratitude; but...
~ Leo Tolstoy
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste it's fragrance on the desert air.
~ Jane Austen
Many a flower is born to blush unseen,    And waste its fragrance on the desert air.
~ Jane Austen
Every thing was safe enough and she smiled over the many anxious feelings she had wasted on the subject.
~ Jane Austen
I know what you are learning to endure. There is nothing to be done. Just make sure nothing is wasted. Take notes. Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to. Mother
~ Janet Fitch
live life to the foolish coz life is to short to be wasted
~ Janette Oke
Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.
~ Benjamin Franklin
A lot of time was wasted, a lot of energy was wasted, being worried.
~ Timothy Ferriss