In Africa, we filled up all available time busily doing…

Half of the hospital beds in sub-Saharan Africa are filled with people suffering from what are generally known as water-related diseases.

— Rose George

The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage…

— Alexandra Fuller

“The schools wear the blank faces of war buildings, their windows blown blind by rocks or guns or mortars. Their plaster is an acne…

— Alexandra Fuller

In the West, it was believed that attitude and ambition saved you. In Africa, we had learned that no one was immune to capricious…

— Alexandra Fuller

“If you don't use your experience, your past is wasted, and you are betraying yourself.”

— Alan Shepard

“sometimes I think homosexuality is wasted on gay people”

— David Halerin

And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted

— Lin Yutang

“Head full of beer, fists jammed into his empty pockets, halos of blur around the parking lot lights, yup, one more wasted evening, and…

— Jean Thompson

I wasted so many years just traveling and sitting in hotels, searching for things, not knowing.

— Sergei Polunin

I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what got wasted.

— Joan Didion

There is no bigger waste of time than doing 90% of what is necessary.

— Thomas Sowell

I spent 90% of my money on women and drink. The rest I wasted

— George Best

Joel Lane documents a life we don’t quite live, in a city we can’t quite find: half glimpsed and half imagined, we know it’s…

— Chaz Brenchley

“Time wasted can never be compensated”

— Sunday Adelaja

“sometimes when everything seems at its worst when all conspires and gnaws and the hours, days, weeks years seem wasted – stretched there upon…

— Charles Bukowski