Wasted Life Quotes

“Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature — is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

“But this thing that almost never was still beckons, I wanted to tell him. They can never undo it, never unwrite it, never unlive it, or relive it—it's just stuck there like a vision of fireflies on a summer field toward evening that keeps saying, You could have had this instead. But going back is false. Moving ahead is false. Looking the other way is false. Trying to redress all that is false turns out to be just as false.

Their life is like a garbled echo buried for all time in a sealed Mithraic chamber.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“There should never be a time you make time for people who waste your time.”
― Carlos Wallace

“You need to have really wasted your life to envy the young for being young.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The only thing you have to show for a wasted or spent time is that you just realize that you are getting older.”
― Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?

“It doesn’t matter how long you live on planet earth, if by the time your whole life has evaporated, you have not solved the problems you were created to solve, then you wasted your life.”
― Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?

“For fifteen years Mr. Polly was a respectable shopkeeper in Fishbourne. Years they were in which every day was tedious, and when they were gone it was as if they had gone in a flash.”
― H.G. Wells, The History of Mr. Polly

“ 'But it's all too late...my virility's gone and marriage is impossible. My life has certainly been a failure. The best thing I can do,' sighed M. Folantin, 'is to go to bed and sleep.' And as he turned back the sheets and arranged his pillows, his soul offered up a thanksgiving in celebration of the tranquilising benefits of an obliging bed.”
― Joris-Karl Huysmans, Downstream

“To own something and not be aware of it could not only be annoying, but fatal too. That is why most people had all the time but did nothing with it. They died leaving behind no invention or product that they could be remembered for.”
― Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?

“Every man has been called to produce a certain number of products within the time allocated to him to live on earth and failure to hit the target would mean a wasted life.”
― Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?

“It’s not that life is short, but that we waste it doing things that have no relevance to our life's purpose”
― CLEMENT OGEDEGBE, YOUR POTENTIALS - THE SOURCE OF YOUR GREATNESS: ….Secrets to unleashing your full potentials and achieving greater heights in life.

“I never liked to just absorb something somebody else created. I’m too self-conscious, and too critical, I guess, and it always felt like I was wasting time. But after you went away... well, it started to feel like time was wasting me. Every tick of the second hand was like a needle in my skin. Tick, tick, tick...”
― Ryū Murakami, Tokyo Decadence

“Any life wasted or spent is gone and it will never come back.”
― Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?

“Do not waste time for that is equal to wasting life.”
― Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?

“You only live when you maximize your potentials, you only live when you fulfil your purpose and you only live when you achieve greatness. Anything short of that is simply a wasted life, an unproductive life, and a dead life.”
― CLEMENT OGEDEGBE

“I wonder if this is the end, thought Ducane, and if so what it will all have amounted to. How tawdry and small it has all been.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

“Like the sand of the earth, your gifts are countless, and some are stepping on theirs without knowing.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“Take people, make ‘em go to the same place every day, and have ‘em do the same meaningless things. Now that oughtta be a crime.”
― Vincent H. O'Neil, A Pause in the Perpetual Rotation

“His days were light beer: lacking potency and barely intoxicating. Hardly worth investing in and perhaps that was why he barely ever spent anything on them. He was a shipwreck at the bottom of the sea. Something useless and long forgotten about, only to treasure hunters still of worth. Maybe that was what Helen was: a treasure hunter and therefore convinced that she had use for him.
~ As the moon began to rust”
― Sima B. Moussavian

“People are noise: the sort of it that disturbs your thinking. It’s only causing problems and the more of them you gather, the more problematic life gets. Their noise was the very reason why Tom was trying to avoid them and used to keep the doors shut when he heard them outside.
~ As the moon began to rust”
― Sima B. Moussavian

“She had grown now not to blame any man, honest miner or bloody bandit. She blamed only gold. She doubted its value. She could not see it a blessing. She absolutely knew its driving power to change the souls of men. Could she ever forget that vast ant-hill of toiling diggers and washers, blind and deaf and dumb to all save gold?”
― Zane Grey, The Border Legion

“There is nothing like a wasted life.
What you recycled may be used by someone else to make a brand new thing.
Nobody is a waste.”
― Ojingiri Hannah

“Orthodoxy is the departure lounge for irrelevance.”
― Stewart Stafford

“We long to experience the grandest of lives and places. The measure of their magnificence is how small we are within them.”
― Matt Louis McCullough

“The wrong things draw you in like the Sunday-sun the eyes. You would stare straight into it and wonder if there is something somewhere out there, other than depressing sunny days and lonely Sundays: something more. When you would take your eyes out of the sun again, you would only see red spots as if the light had forgotten them on your retina and then you would stand around and ponder why your eyes would always wander towards the sun, although you don't want them to and actually know that it does harm.
~ As the moon began to rust”
― Sima B. Moussavian

“Sometimes you'd just forget the truth like a language you haven't spoken in for years: when you would try again in a quiet hour, you'd only stutter and falter. You would make a fool of yourself and promise you wouldn't ever try again. But over one too many drinks you would be trying, anyway, which would be when fluently you’d speak languages you wouldn’t even know when sober. The truth that sober Tom had unlearned was turning him into an alcoholic. Constantly it kept coaxing him to drink, because he couldn't get it out any other way .”
― Sima B. Moussavian, As the moon began to rust

“Five minutes sound like nothing, but a lot can happen in only five. It doesn't take much longer to father a child and if you do it right, in five you can even die.”
― Sima B. Moussavian, As the moon began to rust

“I have known those whose life was meaningful to everyone that knew them. Yet I’m sure they weren’t preoccupied with knowing their purpose or why they were valued so much. So maybe those of us who struggle to see the importance of our own lives shouldn't worry so much. Some of you may never in this life understand "God's unique will" for you or exactly how to carry out your purpose. But to sleep at night, maybe you should trust that your life matters. Because your life most likely does to Someone.”
― Matt Louis McCullough

“The most dangerous things in life are overeating and the lack of ambition.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Life is a downpayment on a mirage.”
― Jack Freestone