Source: For One More Day
Source: Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life (1954), p. 76.
“It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it. Life is long enough.”
Non exiguum temporis habemus, sed multum perdidimus. Satis longa vita.
De Brevitate Vitae ("On the Shortness of Life", trans. John W. Basore), Ch. 1
Moral Essays
“The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.”
The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
Variant: "No life is a waste," the Blue Man said. "The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone."
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Meniti Bianglala
Malcolm Gladwell, in Cheryl Glenn, et al Harbrace Essentials http://books.google.co.in/books?id=WWgIAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT165, Cengage Learning, 1 January 2011, p. 165
“We think about time as something not to waste, not as something to invest.”
Part II, Chapter 7, MTQ: Material, Time, Quality, p. 93
2000s, How Life Imitates Chess (2007)
“That so much time was wasted in this pain.”
Christ, Old Student in a New School (1972)
Context: That so much time was wasted in this pain.
Ten thousand years ago he might have let off down
To not return again!
A dreadful laugh at last escapes his lips;
The laughter sets him free.
A Fool lives in the Universe! he cries.
The Fool is me!
And with one final shake of laughter
Breaks his bonds.
The nails fall skittering to marble floors.
And Christ, knelt at the rail, sees miracle
As Man steps down in amiable wisdom
To give himself what no one else can give:
His liberty.
