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Topic·Wasting time✕clear

I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.

Ernest Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises · 1926

★ 2.1

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

1595

★ 3.5

There's nothing so dangerous as sitting still. You've only got one life, one youth, and you can let it slip through your fingers if you want to; nothing easier. Most people do that.

1912

★ 3.5

While we're talking, envious time is fleeing: seize the day, put no trust in the future.

Odes · 23 BC

★ 3.8

The flowers withered, Their color faded away, While meaninglessly I spent my days in the world And the long rains were falling.

914

★ 3.8

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste.

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Sonnets · 1609

★ 4.6

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

1746

★ 5.2