Top 1200 Wasted Life Quotes & Sayings

God, how I have wasted my life.

The saddest thing in life is wasted talent, and the choices you make will shape your life forever.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.

The saddest thing in life is wasted talent and the choices you make will shape your life forever.

I have not wasted life, but life hath wasted me.

Once people start to think they've wasted parts of their life, or they're wasting their life as they speak, that means there's going to be great dramatic and comedic tension.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

I'm just used to leaving and being like, "I feel like I wasted their time and I definitely wasted my own time." I often leave auditions thinking that that person is now permanently mad at me.

If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.

A life that is never willing to change is a great tragedy - a wasted life. Change is a necessary part of a growing life, and we need change in order to remain fresh and to keep progressing.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

We told him to get on with it. We liked wasting time, but almost nothing was more annoying than having our wasted time wasted on something not worth wasting it on.

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

I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life.

Life lived somehow for love is life never wasted.

I like being old, even if the names I hear are more and more unfamiliar. Maybe, to paraphrase Goethe who said that, "Youth is wasted on the young," we should add that "Age can be wasted on the aged," unless one's capacity to wonder increases.

I love the idea of the big life - the life that matters, the life that makes a difference. The life where stuff happens, where people take action. The opposite of the life where the girl can't even speak to the boy she likes; the opposite of the life where the friends aren't even good friends, and lots of days are wasted away feeling bored and kind of okay, like nothing matters much.

My father always said, 'The saddest thing in life is wasted talent.'

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

You can’t have wasted a life you’ve barely lived.

Life is too short to be wasted in finding answers. Enjoy the questions.

he who finds he has wasted a shilling may by diligence hope to fetch it up again; but no repentance or industry can ever bring back one wasted hour.

Everybody wasn't always wasted. Why is punk rock about getting wasted? Isn't it punk rock to be sober and change the world? I thought it was about challenging capitalism? How are you going to challenge capitalism if you're wasted?

I wasted the 1980s. I wasted every minute at Cambridge talking to people who knew more about music than I did.

For some, the fear of coming out is so great, they can continue to live an inauthentic life. But at a certain point, the pain becomes too much to bear. For me, having one more day pass by where I wasn't living my true self seemed like such a wasted opportunity, such a wasted life.

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

It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.

What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted - it was borrowed, spent, and wasted.

I thought I was so ugly for so long, and I wasted so much of my life on this dumb notion.

Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, it's about days very wrongly invested in a love affair.

No effort is ever wasted, although some pay dividends later than you think. Do not imagine that you "wasted your time" because something didn't turn out right. There is no such thing as "waste" in the Universe. Everything - everything - yields benefit. It's true. And your life will show you this. So don't decry the "effort that failed." All things lead to your highest good. You just may not know it yet.

Don't forget: one of the saddest things in life is wasted talent.

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

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

Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life.'

Truly life is wasted on the living.

Joel Lane documents a life we don’t quite live, in a city we can’t quite find: half glimpsed and half imagined, we know it’s out there somewhere. Waiting, maybe. Mixing fear with desire, reputation with regret. Touching the blood-beat of our secret hunger with the rhythms of a music that never felt alien till now. Wasted lives, with never a wasted word. It’s an extraordinary achievement: vivid as neon, real as rain. Devastating.

I stagnated in prison a long time, and I have wasted most of my life.

No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.

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

If I sit idle for one day, I feel 24 hours of my life are wasted.

Among life's regrets is all the time wasted being early for everything.

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.

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

I look back on the time I've wasted, and I'm just glad I wasted it while I still had the chance.

We've got one shot at this life, and to not be productive with what we've been given, to me, is a travesty. I think the biggest waste is when a human life is wasted. It's unforgivable.

We have to live life with a sense of urgency so not a minute is wasted.

A busy life is a wasted life.

What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted – it was borrowed, spent, and wasted.

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.

The saddest thing in life is wasted talent

Life is wasted on the living.

Fear's useless. Either something bad happens or it doesn't: If it doesn't, you've wasted time being afraid, and if it does, you've wasted time that you could have spent sharpening your weapons.

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

Tell the truth. All the time. About everything. What's the alternative to radical honesty? Waste. Wasted time, wasted money, wasted possibilities-a wasted life.

A life which did not touch the life of others is a wasted life!

Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.

The perfect blossom is a rare thing. You could spend your life looking for one and it would not be a wasted life.

You’re seventeen,” Magnus said. “You can’t have wasted a life you’ve barely lived.