Spending your days waiting to die is no way to live.

Then there is that other appeal, the stronger one, of spending, during certain parts of the year, a ten- or twelve- hour working day…

— Sue Hubbell

“Here am I shedding one of my life-skins and all they will say is, 'Bernard is spending ten days in Rome'.”

— Virginia Woolf

…. Query: How contrive not to waste one's time? Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while. Ways in which this can…

— Albert Camus

The trick is to enjoy life. Don't wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead.

— Anonymous

When you stop waiting for something to happen, you realize that your time goes much faster than those days of waiting

— Nishant Grover

“Anything that waited for them after these next few days could keep on waiting because Alexis was going to take every last second she…

— Lindsay Chamberlin

I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.

— Robert Falcon Scott

The days of waiting for your morning paper to show up in your driveway and tell you what the main stories are? Those days…

— Shannon Bream

All those days of waiting on tables until I could get a role on Broadway, all that time going to school taking lessons, and…

— Marcia Gay Harden

“It isn't that I didn't question why I spent all my days waiting”

— Mizu Sahara

“Why would you turn right on a red light when we can all just sit here behind you waiting to die... #AHOLE”

— Andy Ostrom

“Knitting is a good way to pass the time when you're waiting for something to die.”

— David Demchuk

“If Jem dies, I cannot be with Tessa," said Will. "Because it will be as if I were waiting for him to die, or…

— Cassandra Clare

“Waiting for the bus on Sherbrooke today is like waiting to die. Or what I imagine it would be like.”

— Fanny Britt

I have interviewed so many people who are put into nursing homes or hospices and are just waiting to die. It's a very lonely…

— Misty Upham