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Quotes About Wasted

Is socializing all that great? Riots are socializing. Arguably, more damage is done and time wasted in company with others than alone.
~ Anneli Rufus
I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
But it was too late. He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sometimes when I've felt particularly radiant I've though, why should this be wasted on one man.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I weep over a dead life that I carry inside me and never lived.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Greece has great strengths, but much of this potential has been wasted. That's because of a wider political system, but also because of a lack of an institutional framework.
~ George Papandreou
It was not that these emotions were unworthy or inappropriate; it was simply that they were wasted upon the man.
~ Robin Hobb
I have no doubt you'll find it the highlight of your old and wasted life.
~ Lora Leigh
Mixed with this frustration was the suspicion that Northern lives were being wasted because of mismanagement and political meddling, a suspicion reinforced by Lincoln's firing of McClellan, who, despite his poor showing in the field, was widely respected as a military professional. These are the views reflected in Holmes's letter. They were Copperhead views, but one did not need to be a Democrat in the fall of 1862 to share them.
~ Louis Menand
This added a subtle sting to the retribution already darkening over him, for he who had won and wasted love so wantonly all his life now pined for it with a longing which nothing could appease, and pined in vain.
~ Louisa May Alcott
A man's life is wasted when he lives on, so deceived by the joys of life or by its sorrows, that he never becomes decisively conscious of himself as spirit, as self, that is, he never is aware in the deepest sense that there is a God.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Alas, my life is spent in frivolous trifles, which I even forget myself.
~ Alexandre Dumas
time is of all losses the most irrecuperable, for it can never be redeemed.
~ Alison Weir
The place smelled of smoke and sweat, of spilled drinks and sprayed vomit, of desperation and wasted chances
~ Joe Abercrombie
We don't get much time, and time feeling sorry for yourself is time wasted.
~ Joe Abercrombie
I was starting to feel as if I were getting along in years and the recent ones were angry at me. By the time you're fifty you start to realize just how much of your time on earth you've wasted.
~ Joe R. Lansdale
When I consider the narrow limits within which our active and inquiring faculties are confined; when I see how all our energies are wasted in providing for mere necessities, which again 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... when I consider all this... I am silent.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life comes in the form of opportunities, which are easy to recognize, after they have been wasted.
~ Javan
I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life.
~ Ernest Hemingway
The song: Our youth is wasted We will not waste it Remember my name 'Cause we made history Na na na na, na na
~ E. Lockhart
He misliked the very word "interesting," connoting it with wasted energy and even with morbidity. Hard facts were enough for him.
~ E.M. Forster
a lot of lives in Vietnam were wasted by the folks driving those big desks in Washington. It's easy to make a decision when you don't have to look the people in the eye who have to carry it out. And reminding people of that is my purpose with this book.
~ Ed Kugler
Life's a waste of time, time's a waste of life so let's all get wasted and have the time of our life.
~ Anonymous