#wasted

When I was young, I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. Believe me, never since have I wasted any more time on tobacco. ↗

— Arturo Toscanini

#believe #cigarette #day #first #i

For a long time I believed the opposite of passion was death. I was wrong. Passion and death are implicit, one in the other. Past the border of a fiery life lies the netherworld. I can trace this road, which took me through places so hot the very air burned the lungs. I did not turn back. I pressed on, and eventually passed over the border, beyond which lies a place that is wordless and cold, so cold that it, like mercury, burns a freezing blue flame. ↗

— Marya Hornbacher

#death

Record sales don't really mean anything. For us, the pressure is imagining some 15-year-old kid in Cincinnati who buys our album and doesn't feel like he wasted his pocket money. ↗

— Chris Martin

#anything #buys #cincinnati #feel #his

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

#breeding #flies #got #i #nothing

Every day you must arise and say to your heart, I have suffered enough and now I must live because the light of the sun must not be wasted, it must not be lost without an eye to appreciate it. ↗

— Simone Schwarz-Bart

#arise #because #day #enough #every

Youth is wasted on the young. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#wasted #young #youth

Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won’t suffer the way people do when they have a dream to follow. But when that person looks back – and at some point everyone looks back – she will hear her heart saying, “What have you done with the miracles that God planted in your days? What have you done with the talents God bestowed on you? You buried yourself in a cave because you were fearful of losing those talents. So this is your heritage; the certainty that you wasted your life. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#risks #suffering #wasted #dreams

I never got to see a proper striptease. Not anything even remotely close. I was stupid and went to literary cafés and spent my time on artistic nonsense instead. Now it is too late. I am old and blind. I must content myself with hearing the garments fall. I dictated this. ↗

— Tor Ulven

#resignation #wasted-youth #humor

The only value of wasted time is knowledge. ↗

— Monica Drake

#knowledge #philosophy #wasted-time #inspirational

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#laughed #most #wasted #which