Top 100 Quotes About Life Wasted

#1. A person with power controls their life and their destiny. They have a mastery. Their moments are aware moments in this world, never wasted.

Frederick Lenz

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#2. The average american spends six months of his or her life waiting for red lights to turn green. six months wasted, waiting for permission to move on.

Megan McCafferty

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#3. Life is never as long as we want it to be, and wasted time can never be recovered.

J.D. Robb

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#4. He had wasted the span of my entire life.

Cameron Dokey

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#5. If I'm wrong about God then I wasted my life. If you're wrong about God then you wasted your eternity.

LeCrae

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#6. If I could get the ear of every young man but for one word, it would be this: make the most and best of yourself. There is no tragedy like a wasted life
a life failing of its true end, and turned to a false end.

Thornton T. Munger

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#7. Time flies, whether you're wasting it or not.

Crystal Woods

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#8. When I got him out he was near froze solid and shivering. He was shaking so hard that I wasted half a glass of whiskey trying to aim it for his mouth. Must have got enough of it into him, though, since it did seem to bring him back to life.

Abraham Lincoln

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#9. If you were to gather all the minutes wasted on insignificant, immaterial yik yak spent throughout the day and add them up, how much misspent time do you think you'd have? One hour? Two hours? Consider the sunk cost on that. It's unacceptable. One minute wasted is one minute too much.

Ari Gold

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#10. PEACEFULNESS: Do not allow life's challenges to disturb your tranquility. Life is far too precious to be wasted on nonessential issues.

Judy Smith

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#11. I believe that, for those who love to write, time spent writing is never wasted. And then isn't it from book to book that we approach the book that we really want to write?

Elena Ferrante

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#12. Please don't miss me too much. Please don't be too sad. Find someone else to love, because you have much love to give and it's a gift that shouldn't be wasted. You , Jesse, were the rose that made my life sweet.I will wait for you in heaven.

Lurlene McDaniel

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#13. The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

Nicolas Chamfort

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#14. You must live everyday of your life or you have wasted that many days of your life ...

Adel Abouhana

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#15. Live life to the foolish coz life is to short to be wasted

Janette Oke

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#16. I have to believe that literature can effect change; otherwise, I would have no purpose in my life and would have wasted four years on 'Ilustrado.'

Miguel Syjuco

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#17. As you know, Joyce was a writer who asked his reader to give him a lifetime," he said. "I am that reader, and I can tell you it was a wasted life.

Philip Levine

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#18. Not to live a kingdom life is to live a wasted life

Sunday Adelaja

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#19. Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving, for life is too good to be wasted in living.

John Sterling

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#20. How do you get up in the morning? Another wasted life it's so boring The system never failed you You failed yourself and all of your friends Now your heart is failing too A total system failure they pronounce you

Juliana Hatfield

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#21. age is no crime but the shame of a deliberately wasted life among so many deliberately wasted lives is.

Charles Bukowski

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#22. Do I rue a life wasted doing crosswords? Yes, but I do know the three-letter-word for regret.

Robert Breault

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#23. Nothing is wasted in the sea; every particle of material is used over and over again, first by one creature, then by another. And when in spring the waters are deeply stirred, the warm bottom water brings to the surface a rich supply of minerals, ready for use by new forms of life.

Rachel Carson

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#24. Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life.

Charles Bukowski

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#25. A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.

Agnes Repplier

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#26. In God's economy, nothing is slag, nothing is wasted. Every relationship we build is a teacher, every experience we have is a coach. In every scar there is a lesson. In every memory there lives potential to make more.

Toni Sorenson

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#27. life is very short, and keeping grievances takes so much energy, it's not worth it. If you don't make something positive for yourself at least, what you have is wasted, gone, and you can't get it back. One thing

Jane Marks

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#28. I believe it is customary to get one's washing over first in baths and bask afterwards; personally, I bask first. I have discovered that the first few minutes are the best and not to be wasted
my brain always seethes with ideas and life suddenly looks much better than did.

Dodie Smith

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#29. To think that I have wasted years of my life, that I have longed for death, that the greatest love that I have ever known has been for a woman who did not please me, who was not in my style! PLACE-NAMES:

Marcel Proust

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

Violet Trefusis

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#31. Infinite Jest is an endurance contest. You manage to get through it and you have no choice but to say you like it. Otherwise, you have to deal with the fact that you just wasted weeks of your life,

Gabrielle Zevin

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#32. A bad or mediocre meal is more than just an unpleasant taste, it is an unnecessary negation of one of life's pleasures - a wasted chance to refine our palates, learn about the world, and share a rewarding experience.

Tyler Cowen

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#33. Thirty was a big deal for me. It was the age where I reevaluated everything - how I approached life and how I thought about myself. When I look at my 20s, or when I look at any period in my life, I think about how much time I've wasted trying to find the right man.

Amy Adams

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#34. If there is anything in life to worry about at all, it's your wasted yesterday. Unfortunately, before you worry about it, you have to waste today doing so. Never worry!

Israelmore Ayivor

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#35. How terrible, Jack thought, to be old and know that your life has been wasted.

Ken Follett

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#36. If I wasted my time worrying, I would be deprived of all the simple joys of life!

Jen Selinsky

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#37. ...life allowed to waste like a tap left running.

Virginia Woolf

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#38. This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust, death, death; I am alive!

Don Marquis

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#39. I'm so sorry that I wasted your time because you really do mean a lot to me and I hope you have a very nice life because I really think you deserve it. I really do. I hope you do, too. Okay, then. Goodbye.

Stephen Chbosky

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#40. I no longer have time for unnecessary drama. I wasted so much time scared, self-conscious and insecure. Life is too short to stress the small things anymore.

Daryl Hannah

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#41. Infinite Jest is a masterpiece," Harvey had said. "Infinite Jest is an endurance contest. You manage to get through it and you have no choice but to say you like it. Otherwise, you have to deal with the fact that you just wasted weeks of your life," A.J.

Gabrielle Zevin

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#42. Getting wasted is never a waste of time.

Jonathan Heatt

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#43. It depressed him to consider how much energy he had wasted, over the years, in the self-denying posture of apology. From now on, whatever else his life might hold, there would be no more apologies.

Richard Yates

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#44. He was conscious of an emptiness that made him see Komako's life as beautiful but wasted, even though he himself was the object of her love; and yet the woman's existence, her straining to live, came touching him like naked skin. He pitied her, and he pitied himself.

Yasunari Kawabata

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#45. Do you want to lead an unfulfilled, wasted life or do you want to be all you were created to be

Sunday Adelaja

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#46. I'm rambling again. Wandering off the point. But this is the true story of my wasted life ...

Mordecai Richler

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#47. Time wasted can never be compensated

Sunday Adelaja

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#48. There is more than one way to lose your life; quickly through violence, or fettered-away and wasted around dreadful, toxic people.

Bryant McGill

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#49. But if there's nothing wrong with me, he thought, then there is something wrong with the world. And if there is nothing wrong with the world, then I have wasted my life and that is the worst mistake of all.

Walker Percy

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#50. She only regretted the time wasted, what was left unsaid. Undone. That if she'd learned something from what had happened, it was that you needed to live life to the fullest. Every day. Balls to the wall. Afraid of nothing. Much less of possible pain to come. Giving yourself unconditionally.

Elle Aycart

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#51. I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life

Ernest Hemingway,

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#52. The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

Muhammad Ali

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#53. Life comes in the form of opportunities, which are easy to recognize, after they have been wasted ...

Javan

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#54. Our whole life is wasted in trying to change others. For a change, try to change yourself! It is easier and at least under your control.

Sanchita Pandey

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#55. A life without increase, production and multiplication is a wasted one

Sunday Adelaja

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#56. Enjoying and displaying are both crucial.
The wasted life is the life without a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples.

John Piper

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#57. I had wasted my life in the pursuit of a career, romance, financial independence and the best heels in town when it seems I could have done more for my self esteem with a .38 calibre handgun

Tyne O'Connell

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#58. It's too bad if a heart lacks fire,
and is deprived of the light
of a heart ablaze.
The day on which you are
without passionate love
is the most wasted day of your life.

Omar Khayyam

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#59. If I find out that you wasted the best years of my little girl's life because of your fine-wine-aging process, I'm going to kill you.

Wesley Chu

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#60. Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.

Orson Scott Card

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#61. Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted ...

C. G. Jung

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#62. Suddenly your whole life is like a car crash, no brakes, gaining momentum, piling up behind you. Your mistakes, missed opportunities, all the time you've wasted, a twisted, rusting heap of scrap metal that can't be salvaged. Overwhelming you. Crushing you.

Debbie Howells

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#63. Control yourself every passing second and make sure that no unit of time is being wasted

Sunday Adelaja

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#64. You can have all the words in the world,but if not said rightly, those words are simply wasted potential.

Joel T. McGrath

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#65. Even a wasted life stands as an important example and therefore can never be useless.

Mark Wallace

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#66. Your life is far too valuable to be wasted on the life that everyone else is choosing.

Joshua Becker

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#67. As a cancer survivor, I am very aware of how many wasted minutes I don't have. The surest way to waste what is left of your life is to worry about what might happen or what might have been.

Shelley Hamlin

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#68. If you have not made somebody's day happier, if you've not appreciated something good that has happened to you and if you have not felt thankful to be alive, then you have wasted that day of your life on earth!

Preeti Shenoy

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#69. I don't believe in heaven and hell. I don't know if I believe in God. All I know is that as an individual, I won't allow this life - the only thing I know to exist - to be wasted.

George Clooney

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#70. A life lived at less than its full potential is a life half wasted.

Tony Clark

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#71. I have become an orchid
washed in on the salt white beach.
Memory,
what can I make of it now
that might please you-
this life, already wasted
and still strewn with miracles?

Mary Ruefle

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#72. 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

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#73. There is no humiliation worse than the consciousness of a wasted
life. It stains the spirit, forestalls hope, and destroys any motive for
action or change.

Peter Ackroyd

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#74. Mortal man! You've wasted your time mostly with wrong and empty beliefs! And now you have started understanding that most important thing in life is existence!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#75. A life lived for art, is never a life wasted.

Macklemore

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#76. The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.

Arnold Bennett

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#77. And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal; you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time.

Donald Miller

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#78. Maybe she has wasted her life dreaming about something that was never entirely real.

Nick Alexander

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#79. The wicked ones make us better persons for those that deserve our attention. Nothing is really lost and wasted in this alchemical dance of life.

Robin Sacredfire

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#80. To not to have entirely wasted one's life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

Charles Bukowski

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#81. No experience is ever wasted. Everything has meaning.

Oprah Winfrey

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#82. As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

T. S. Eliot

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#83. Things happen every day. You can't spend your whole life trying to guard against something happening. If you do that, in my opinion, you've wasted your life.

Tony Stewart

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#84. You will always end up in this city. Don't hope for things elsewhere:
there is no ship for you, there is no road.
As you've wasted your life here, in this small corner,
you've destroyed it everywhere else in the world

Constantine P. Cavafy

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#85. There's no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) 'Do you realize you've wasted your life?

Daniel Dennett

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#86. Sure, a surgeon can stand to look at a mutilated body," Crawford said, crumpling his cup and stepping on the pedal of the covered wastebasket. "But I don't think a doctor can stand to see a life wasted.

Thomas Harris

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#87. Man is a mystery: if you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do not say that you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery, because I want to be a man.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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#88. Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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#89. My greatest fear is time wasted - a life spent. My greatest fear is passing away from this world without leaving a lasting impact.

M.J. Chrisman

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#90. You must not think that I feel, in spite of it having ended in such defeat, that my "life has been wasted" here, or that I would exchange it with that of anyone I know.

Isak Dinesen

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#91. You know, there are so many things you can't control in life, like what
happens to you or how people are going to react to what you do.
It's wasted energy to worry about it. But you can control how you
react. That's the trick.

Katie Kacvinsky

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#92. The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace.'

Max Lucado

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#93. Wasted tries, The many whys, Is it the soul of Compromise?
Lows and highs, Believing in lies, In life we have to improvise.
Frustration and cries, The last leg of sighs, You are the dreamer in disguise!
To the guilt say goodbyes, Open your eyes, Your soul - I do so recognize.

Julieanne O'Connor

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#94. It was through eavesdropping that I learned that you could buy fresh peanut butter at Whole Foods from a machine that grinds it in front of you. I had wasted so much of my life eating stupid old, already-ground peanut butter. So, yeah, I highly recommend a little nosiness once in a while.

Mindy Kaling

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#95. What if I'd wasted my entire life comparing myself with people who didn't really matter? Try as I might, I still can't wrap my mind around it.

David Sedaris

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#96. I think I've wasted some of my time, but used most of it well, and have realized that my life is not separate from other people's lives or from the universe. I think our moments of happiness really come from a feeling of unity.

Gloria Steinem

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#97. A very beautiful day without love, kindness, and gratitude is a very wasted day.

Debasish Mridha

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#98. God created us to live with a single passion: to joyfully display his supreme excellence in all spheres of life. The wasted life is the life without this passion. God calls us to pray and think and dream and plan and work, not to be made much of, but to make much of him in every part of our lives.

John Piper

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#99. I saw something I hadn't realized before: words wasted energy. I would use my strength instead to nurture my belief that my life would unfurl uniquely.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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#100. His own percolator took ten minutes to warm up, and ten minutes without coffee was ten minutes of his life wasted.

Catriona King

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