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

As quoted in The Observer (17 August 1986).

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English philosopher 1910–1989

Javier Botet (1977) Spanish actor

“What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.”

Hugh Prather (1938–2010) American writer

Source: Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person

“For the first time I realize how perilous peace can be. I appreciate the tightrope that my grandfather has spent his whole life trying to walk. And now, more than ever, I grow terrified that I'm going to make us all fall down.”

Ally Carter book All Fall Down

Source: All Fall Down

“To study the meaning of man and of life — I am making significant progress here. I have faith in myself. Man is a mystery: if you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do not say that you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery, because I want to be a man.”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) Russian author

Personal correspondence (1839), as quoted in Dostoevsky: His Life and Work (1971) by Konstantin Mochulski, as translated by Michael A. Minihan, p. 17
General

“Remember; no matter how desperate the situation seems, time spent
thinking clearly is never time wasted.”

Max Brooks book The Zombie Survival Guide

Source: The Zombie Survival Guide

“All time is wasted that is not spent in seeking God.”

Lahiri Mahasaya (1828–1895) Indian yogi and guru

This adage is attributed to the ancient sage Sukdeva, as quoted in Promise of Immortality: The True Teaching of the Bible and the Bhagavad Gita (2001) by J. Donald Walters. p. 242
Disputed

“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

“The people I know who seem to make unusual efforts at rationality, are unusually honest, or, failing that, at least have unusually bad social skills.”

Eliezer Yudkowsky (1979) American blogger, writer, and artificial intelligence researcher

Honesty: Beyond Internal Truth (June 2009) http://lesswrong.com/lw/101/honesty_beyond_internal_truth/

“I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I've spent my entire life trying to get over it.”

Judy Garland (1922–1969) actress, singer and vaudevillian from the United States

“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

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

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