“This loving person is a person who abhors waste — waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste. As if we were going to live forever.”

“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.”

Joshua Ferris (1974) American author

“Life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, so let's all get wasted and have the time of our lives.”

Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist

“Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason […] When we waste time, we waste happiness.”

L. Frank Baum (1856–1919) Children's writer, editor, journalist, screenwriter

“Wasting our time? This is a waste of time, to live in peace and plenty with my wife and children? May I waste the rest of my life, then.”

Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist

“time wasted is not always a waste of time.”

Terri Blackstock (1957) American writer

“To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to spend or waste, and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.”

Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker

“Regret for wasted time is more wasted time”

Mason Cooley (1927–2002) American academic

“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

“Life is a waste of time. Time is a waste of life. Get wasted all the time and you'll have the time of your life.”

Billy Connolly (1942) British comedian