Wasted Opportunities Quotes

When I look back on my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost in futilities, errors, laziness, incapacity to live; how little I appreciated it, how many times I sinned against my heart and soul-then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift, life is happiness, every minute can be an eternity of happiness.

Man knows so much and does so little.

Lost time is never found again.

It's the things you don't do, not the things you do, you feel most sorry for.

Our life is our life. If we waste it, we're fools.

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

If fooles should not foole it, they shall lose their season.

Man is doomed either squander his youth, which is the only time he has to store provisions for the coming years and provide for his own well-being, or to spend his youth procuring pleasures in advance for that time of life when he will be too old to enjoy them.

In vain have oceans been squandered on you, in vain the sun, wonderfully seen through Whitman’s eyes. You have used up the years and they have used up you, and still, and still, you have not written the poem.

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.

I almost get annoyed at the fact that I'm not going to use all that I got.

The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers.

When a banana gets rotten people love to tell you that you can make banana bread out of it. I have never seen anyone actually do it.

I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were younger.

Missed opportunities were never superficial wounds; they cut straight to the bone.

Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.

Bargaining chips that you never get to spend are not worth anything

To do nothing but grumble and not to act - that is throwing away one's life.

Nothing seems to me so likely to make people unhappy in themselves and at variance with others as the habit of killing time.

An unused life is an early death.

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.

I hoped we never had to realize all the opportunities we missed in this life.

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

Idle time is the devil's play.

Oh, if I had only known then what I know now, I would have stopped it last year when I was still young.