Quotes About Wasted Years

#1. 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

#2. The thought of three wasted years stretching out behind him was as shocking as if they were still to come.

Belinda Bauer

#3. All those wasted years spent trying to get inconsequential people to like her. She never asked herself why she should like them.

Mhairi McFarlane

#4. If we had known our love would come to this we could have saved our hearts the hurt of wasted years.

Blake Shelton

#5. Some clever children don't discover how bright they are until after they've left school,' continued Mr Holcombe, 'and then spend the rest of their lives regretting the wasted years.

Jeffrey Archer

#6. The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you'll never be able to forgive yourself for all those wasted years.

Mignon McLaughlin

#7. To think that I wasted years of my life, that I wanted to die, that I felt my deepest love, for a woman who did not appeal to me, who was not my type!

Marcel Proust

#8. I had a friend who trained as a lawyer, then became disenchanted and never practiced. He told me that the one benefit of those wasted years was that he no longer feared either the law or lawyers.

Julian Barnes

#9. 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

#10. I wasted years worrying about what other people thought.

Amy Waldman

#11. Too many years fighting back tears. Why can't the past just die? Wishing you were somehow here again, knowing we must say goodbye. Try to forgive, teach me to live, give me the strength to try! No more memories, no more silent tears, no more gazing across the wasted years. Help me say goodbye.

Charles Hart

#12. We have been the most prodigal of people with land, and for years we wasted it with impunity. There was so much of it, and no matter how we fouled it, there was always more over the next hill, or so it seemed.

William H. Whyte

#13. to me. Look how many years we wasted? Don't make the same mistake we did. Tell him, and tell him soon. Or you might lose him." ********************** CHAPTER 28 ********************** Caleb was determined to tell Katie how he really felt about her - even if it meant she would reject him.

Samantha Bayarr

#14. Imagine - four years you could have spent travelling around Europe meeting people, or going to the Far East of Africa or India, meeting people, exchanging ideas, reading all you wanted to anyway, and instead I wasted it at Roosevelt.

Shel Silverstein

#15. I think it killed the performance on a lot of the systems in the Labs for years because everyone had their own copy of it, but it wasn't being shared, and so they wasted huge amounts of memory back when memory was expensive.

Bill Joy

#16. Facebook revamped its search feature. Now you can search for any post that has ever appeared on your page. It's helpful if you want to waste time this year remembering exactly how you wasted time last year.

Conan O'Brien

#17. I was waiting for
something extraordinary to
happen

but as the years wasted on
nothing ever did unless I
caused it.

Charles Bukowski

#18. Years were wasted trying to make him feel better. I never stopped to see if I felt appreciated.

Darian Wilk

#19. When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable).

Elisabeth Elliot

#20. He felt the rush of years, years wasted and years used wisely. He felt time moving through him, as if it were a ghost, a thing that can haunt a man's days and nights.

Cathie Pelletier

#21. This is where I have wasted the best years of my life.

Greta Garbo

#22. Commend him gently, whom the wrath he suckled at his heart has wasted more than years.

Cormac McCarthy

#23. He was in his fifties. He'd wasted his entire life. Such people were very dear to those of us who'd wasted only a few years.

Denis Johnson

#24. She carried the burn of the sun on her body. It was for all of those wasted, dull years.

Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio

#25. Faith is not a crime. Blind obedience should be. Too many years wasted in strict adherence to fabricated laws could damn a religion to oblivion.

Kirsten Beyer

#26. Shouldn't we suppose that many of our most painful ordeals will look quite different a million years from now, as we recall them on the New Earth? What if one day we discover that God has wasted nothing in our life on Earth? What if we see that every agony was part of giving birth to an eternal joy?

Randy Alcorn

#27. A charming eccentric, a piece of blank paper on which the electorate could write its message: You other guys are so wasted that we decided to elect this fool for two years instead.

Stephen King

#28. Thanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.

Man Ray

#29. My hands clench at my sides. I cannot adequately express how tickled I am to know that I wasted four years pursuing a business degree at Oregon State so I could scan and file papers while my incompetent twenty-four-year-old boss supervises.

Winter Renshaw

#30. Those were the years when I was truly happy. Knowing that is both a blessing and a curse. It's good to acknowledge that you found true happiness in your life - in that sense your life has not been wasted. But to admit that you will never be happy like that again is hard.

William Boyd

#31. He'd wasted his entire life. Such people were very dear to those of us who'd only wasted a few years.

Denis Johnson

#32. You know what, the moment I see you, first thing that comes to my mind is, I have just wasted 26 years of my life without you...

Arpit Agrawal

#33. When I started having a couple of beers and loosening up, I realized how many years I had wasted going back to my hotel room alone when I could have gone and just had a beer or two.

Bradford Cox

#34. If I had one night, I'd hold you in my arms,
Find redemption, no more contention,
Keeping you close. Too long, years gone,
Wasted away. One night, our night,
Remember this. I won't forget you,
No I won't forget you. - Red-Eyed Loons

Liza M. Wiemer

#35. Had I mentioned to someone around 1795 that I planned to write, anyone with any sense would have told me to write for two hours every day, with or without inspiration. Their advice would have enabled me to benefit from the ten years of my life I totally wasted waiting for inspiration.

Enrique Vila-Matas

#36. Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it.

Thomas Hunt Morgan

#37. Yes, it is easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter. Ghosts are transparent.

J.K. Rowling

#38. We wasted ten years and you're worried about a few thousand miles? Hell, we've got airplanes, we've got email, they've invented fucking cell phones. Jesus, if it comes down to it, I'll even write you a fucking letter.

Jane Harvey-Berrick

#39. Cause' I don't wanna' spend my life jaded, waiting to wake up one day and find that I've let all these years go by
wasted. Oh I don't wanna' keep on wishing, missing, but still every morning the color of the night, I ain't spending no more time wasted.

Carrie Underwood

#40. As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.

Mary Augusta Ward

#41. I never took a lesson until I was 20, and I'm glad I had those years living the life of a normal person. I don't consider that time wasted.

Glenn Tipton

#42. I am sorry to upset my colleagues by saying we wasted four years in opposition, but if you do get so badly defeated as a party you do have to face up to some painful facts and you do have to change.

Kenneth Clarke

#43. My daddy was determined to make me a dentist and a baseball player. And I loved my daddy but I wasted four years of college trying to do what he wanted me to do, and not what I felt I wanted to do.

Andrew Young

#44. 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

#45. We wasted little time wondering how anyone, even Lizzie, could nurse for five years a smoldering, mounting, murderous hate for anyone as uninteresting as Abby Borden ... we did, however, attach grave importance to Lizzie's 'peculiar spells.

Victoria Lincoln

#46. 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

#47. 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

#48. And people who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives ... and when the bubble has burst they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted.

Nate Saint

#49. I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.

Harry S. Truman

#50. I think I wasted a lot of my youth, falling for girls who were a couple of years older than me.

Eric Bana

#51. 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

#52. I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now ... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to a short story, then to a paragraph.

George Saunders

#53. I lacked the advice and guidance of experienced counsellors and so wasted many years before I realised that one must not pursue several aims at the same time.

Heinrich Harrer

#54. There was a freshness and breeziness, too, and an exhilarating sense of emancipation from all sorts of cares and responsibilities, that almost made us feel that the years we had spent in the close, hot city, toiling and slaving, had been wasted and thrown away.

Mark Twain

#55. Entire years had passed when he was rich enough in time to disregard the loose change of a minute, but now he obsessed over each one, this minute, the next minute, the one following, all of which were different terms for the same illusion.

Anthony Marra

#56. I wasted time writing films. I don't look back on those years as lost, but it wasn't what I should have been doing.

James Salter

#57. Remember that no piece of honestly conducted research is ever wasted, even if it seems so at the time. Put it away in a drawer, and ten, twenty or thirty years down the road, it will come back and help you in ways you never anticipated.

Anthony James Leggett

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

Muhammad Ali

#59. Nazareth wasted no time in anything she did, and years of experience with her brood of nine had given her a firm way of bustling another person along that was impressive even to a professional nurse who did professional person-bustling.

Suzette Haden Elgin

#60. He considered the hard times in his life. All the things he had been afraid of. All those years wasted, he told himself, because I was terrified of being different. That's why all us fifty-four-year-olds end up looking so much alike. All of us are terrified of being different.

Stuart McLean

#61. Scientists are adding an extra second to the year 2015. Yeah. Here's the bad news. You just wasted it listening to this joke.

Conan O'Brien

#62. All those wasted and squandered years when I did nothing but go around looking inside myself until I ended up alone even though I was surrounded by people. But I paid attention only to what was happenstance about them - not their true selves.

Sigrid Undset

#63. A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Muhammad Ali

#64. If you look at the world the same way when you're 50 that you did when you were 20, then you wasted 30 years.

Muhammad Ali

#65. He's completely blown through his younger years like his childhood was one big cigarette to smoke carelessly.

Rebecca McNutt

#66. Put the park rangers to work. Lazy scheming loafers, they've wasted too many years selling tickets at toll booths and sitting behind desks filling out charts and tables

Edward Abbey

#67. I am weary seeing our laboring classes so wretchedly housed, fed, and clothed, while thousands of dollars are wasted every year over unsightly statues. If these great man must have outdoor memorials, let them be in the form of handsome blocks of buildings for the poor

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#68. The money has always been wasted on me. I don't care for beautiful things, funnily enough. I am my father's daughter. The things that excite me are the smell of a wood-burning stove, uncultivated fields. My house is decaying and falling to pieces. It's not had the love it deserves over twenty years.

Alison Moyet

#69. I spent years being angry with God because He never gave me the husband I wanted. All those years gone, wasted! I should have enjoyed each day as it came and recognized that if I remained single it was because God knew singleness was best for me.

Jill Stengl

#70. Don't complain. The Israelites wasted forty years murmuring and complaining in the wilderness, when they could have just obeyed God and entered into their Promised Land.

Joyce Meyer

#71. Through our inattention, we have wasted the years that we might have used to prepare for lessened oil supplies. The next ten years are critical.

Kenneth S. Deffeyes

#72. I wish I could somehow recover all those years I wasted waiting around for him to deal with his issues." Save yourself that sadness if you can, by insisting on nothing less than complete respect.

Lundy Bancroft

#73. Not Speaking has no reflection on what is being thought on the inside, being a non-verbal person with Autism in my early years I've come to value words, they shouldn't be wasted nor abused they should be cherished used positively and productively.

Paul Isaacs

#74. The first twenty years of my life were wasted ... I didn't fit my environment, and I didn't know any other.

Rose Wilder Lane

#75. I've wasted the last five years of my life dealing in religious articles. People today find spiritual solace in ballroom dancing.

Ben Katchor