Wasting Time Quotes

“There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.”
― Bill Watterson

“The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”
― Jack London

“Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.”
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

“Your time is way too valuable to be wasting on people that can't accept who you are.”
― Turcois Ominek

“Your hand can seize today, but not tomorrow; and thoughts of your tomorrow are nothing but desire. Don’t waste this breath, if your heart isn’t crazy, since "the rest of your life" won’t last forever.”
― Omar Khayyám, Quatrains - Ballades

“I don't understand women that call themselves a "bitch". It doesn't empower a woman. Rather, it reveals to everyone that you were deeply hurt at one time. Because of the pain your still carrying, you will continue to hurt anyone that reminds you of those moments when you let your guard down and were fooled. Sadly, it sends a clear message to the observant that you are still hurt. If only women would realize that "we all" have moments of stupidity then they would stop comparing themselves to the masses.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.”
― Brian Tracy, Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

“It is named the "Web" for good reason.”
― David Foster Wallace

“But why do only unimportant things?" asked Milo, who suddenly remembered how much time he spent each day doing them.

"Think of all the trouble it saves," the man explained, and his face looked as if he'd be grinning an evil grin--if he could grin at all. "If you only do the easy and useless jobs, you'll never have to worry about the important ones which are so difficult. You just won't have the time. For there's always something to do to keep you from what you really should be doing, and if it weren't for that dreadful magic staff, you'd never know how much time you were wasting.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

“Stop wasting your time looking for the key to happiness… the door is open and unlocked… just walk through it.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“When it comes to love and loss, acceptance is never easy. We can't make someone see all we have to give, make them love us, or make them change. All we can do is move on and stop wasting time.”
― April Mae Monterrosa

“Worry is like a rocking chair-it keeps you busy but gets you nowhere.”
― Katie Dale, Someone Else's Life

“Sometimes exhaustion is not a result of too much time spent on something, but of knowing that in its place, no time is spent on something else.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing."
~ Margaret Thatcher”
― Margaret Thatcher

“So this is it ⎯ what cost me all that time. A man who turned out to be old, a house that turned out to be empty.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

“He did not waste time in a vain search for a place in history.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

“I prefer solitude to companions, since there are so few men who are trustworthy, and almost none truly learned. I do not say this because I demand scholarship in all men -- although the sum total of men's learning is small enough; but I question whether we should allow anyone to waste our time. The wasting of time is an abomination.”
― Girolamo Cardano

“Yes, but there's not time to read nowadays. A fellow has to keep scratching round to make money or he's nobody," cut in Charlie, trying to look worldly wise.

"This love of money is the curse of America, and for the sake of it men will sell honor and honesty, till we don't know whom to trust. Only a genius like Agassiz dares to say, 'I cannot waste my time getting rich,'" said Mrs. Jessie sadly.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Eight Cousins

“You're not going to make it. Best accept it now and not take up more of my time.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“If you don't know what's worth spending your time, ask yourself, if you were to die in five years, what would you do?”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Lately I’m too tired to care
about getting old. I never put my phone down.
I scroll many futures away. I sleep many futures
away, I write them away, the longer I live,
the more the future disappears.”
― Lena Moses-Schmidt

“Time is intentional.
It brings together and also
separates.
For letters dance over the
bridge of four ever.
Knowing what you want is
momentary.
On the contrary
Things change all the time.
Including the things we think we
want.
But time.
Time is something we don't
simply enjoy enough of.
It separates but also brings
Back together.
For letters dance over the
bridge of four ever.
Why waste what can't be
Given back”
― Kewayne Wadley, More Songs to Listen to at Midnight

“You've filled my dreams &
Gave them something beautiful
to believe in.
Inside my mind, inside my skin.
Time remembers everything
And remains the only thing we truly
have abundance of,
We shouldn't waste it.
Any minute one of us
might wake up”
― Kewayne Wadley, More Songs to Listen to at Midnight

“I see all the more reason for debate by the man who does actually 'believe his own lies' - for that debate is at least One versus One. But if even he doesn't believe them then it's really just a waste of time, or rather Won versus None.”
― Criss Jami

“Even before you get to any serious software engineering, the applied part of computing involves a neverending struggle to make machines do what you need them to do—get a document to print, a website to load, a software package to install—in ways that are harrowing and not the slightest bit intellectually interesting. You learn, not about the nature of reality, but only about the terrible design decisions of other people.
(“On being faceless”, blog post on March 6, 2024)”
― Scott Aaronson

“We are ahead of our time in terms of wasting time.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Wasting time is living in self glorification instead of glorifying God as God is time.”
― indonesia123

“What will you say when the Grim Reaper suddenly appears and asks, ‘What do you have to show for your life?’

In a world of many time-consuming pursuits, most utterly inane and many major drags on our creative potential, if your answer is ‘Not much,’ it’s at least worth considering that you’ve spent your time wisely.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“So let’s start with this first question here. [points to a microphone]
"Question: This is more of a comment—
"Answer: Sorry, no. This is not ‘comment and answer,’ it’s ‘question and answer.’ So unless you have a question, please give the mic over to the next person in line.
"[Grumbles, leaves the microphone; scattered applause]”
― John Scalzi, When the Moon Hits Your Eye

“Some people have no times for games. Those are the ones I love to play with.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones