--- title: "29 Wasted Years Quotes by 27 authors" description: "Browse 29 Wasted Years quotes by 27 authors. Discover the best Wasted Years sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c3/graham-greene-441_quote_he-watched-her-go-out-of-the-dark-office_1352376.jpg" --- > [“He watched her go out of the dark office like fifteen wasted years.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/he-watched-her-go-out-of-the-dark-office-like-fifteen-wasted-years/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c3/graham-greene-441_quote_he-watched-her-go-out-of-the-dark-office_1352376.jpg) > [I wasted years worrying about what other people thought.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/i-wasted-years-worrying-about-what-other-people-thought/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e39/anonymous-1_fear_i-wasted-years-worrying-about-what-other_415667.jpg) > [I wasted so many years in my youth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-liefeld/i-wasted-so-many-years-in-my-youth/) [Rob Liefeld](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rob-liefeld/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3aa/rob-liefeld-6199_many_i-wasted-so-many-years-in-my-youth-63591_63591.jpg) > [The wasted years ... The wasted youth ... The pretty liars ... The ugly truth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-wasted-years-the-wasted-youth-the-pretty-liars-the-ugly-truth/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e10/anonymous-1_truth_the-wasted-years-the-wasted-youth-the-pr_2123531.jpg) > [No more memories, no more silent tears. No more gazing across the wasted years. Help me say goodbye.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-lloyd-webber/no-more-memories-no-more-silent-tears-no-more-gazing-across-the/) [Andrew Lloyd Webber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-lloyd-webber/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/98a/andrew-lloyd-webber-7392_gazing_no-more-memories-no-more-silent-tears-no_612320.jpg) > [I've wasted the last five years of my life dealing in religious articles. People today find spiritual solace in ballroom dancing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-katchor/i-ve-wasted-the-last-five-years-of-my-life-dealing-in-religious/) [Ben Katchor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-katchor/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bb5/ben-katchor-20692_articles_i-ve-wasted-the-last-five-years-of-my-li_1690335.png) > [This country has wasted too many years pretending it had the luxury of debating climate change.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-de-blasio/this-country-has-wasted-too-many-years-pretending-it-had-the-luxury/) [Bill de Blasio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-de-blasio/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4fe/bill-de-blasio-11259_change_this-country-has-wasted-too-many-years-p_3130726.png) > [I wasted so many years just traveling and sitting in hotels, searching for things, not knowing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergei-polunin/i-wasted-so-many-years-just-traveling-and-sitting-in-hotels-searching/) [Sergei Polunin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergei-polunin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fcb/sergei-polunin-3855_knowing_i-wasted-so-many-years-just-traveling-an_19748.jpg) > [“He'd wasted his entire life. Such people were very dear to those of us who'd only wasted a few years.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denis-johnson/he-d-wasted-his-entire-life-such-people-were-very-dear-to-those-of-us/) [Denis Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/denis-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/35c/denis-johnson-2135_entire-life_he-d-wasted-his-entire-life-such-people_2734789.png) > [If we had known our love would come to this we could have saved our hearts the hurt of wasted years.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blake-shelton/if-we-had-known-our-love-would-come-to-this-we-could-have-saved-our/) [Blake Shelton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blake-shelton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/42f/blake-shelton-2265_heart_if-we-had-known-our-love-would-come-to-t_3058093.jpg) > [“you feel that you’ve wasted your years and yourself it didn’t work for me either but isn’t there always one good thing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/you-feel-that-you-ve-wasted-your-years-and-yourself-it-didn-t-work/) [Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd3/charles-bukowski-73_good-thing_you-feel-that-you-ve-wasted-your-years-a_1355143.jpg) > [“He felt the rush of years, years wasted and years used wisely. He felt time moving through him, as if it were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cathie-pelletier/he-felt-the-rush-of-years-years-wasted-and-years-used-wisely-he-felt/) [Cathie Pelletier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cathie-pelletier/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f9/cathie-pelletier-20205_time_he-felt-the-rush-of-years-years-wasted-a_365592.jpg) > [The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you'll never be able to forgive yourself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mignon-mclaughlin/the-two-main-hazards-of-psychoanalysis-that-it-might-fail-and-that-if/) [Mignon McLaughlin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mignon-mclaughlin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3dc/mignon-mclaughlin-742_able_the-two-main-hazards-of-psychoanalysis-t_1497724.png) > [“We wasted ten years and you're worried about a few thousand miles? Hell, we've got airplanes, we've got email, they've invented fucking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-harvey-berrick/we-wasted-ten-years-and-you-re-worried-about-a-few-thousand-miles/) [Jane Harvey-Berrick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-harvey-berrick/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bab/jane-harvey-berrick-4206_cell-phone_we-wasted-ten-years-and-you-re-worried-a_350474.jpg) > [I have to believe that literature can effect change; otherwise, I would have no purpose in my life and would have wasted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/miguel-syjuco/i-have-to-believe-that-literature-can-effect-change-otherwise-i-would/) [Miguel Syjuco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/miguel-syjuco/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8a/miguel-syjuco-8046_believe_i-have-to-believe-that-literature-can-ef_305902.png) > [“To think that I have wasted years of my life, that I have longed for death, that the greatest love that I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/to-think-that-i-have-wasted-years-of-my-life-that-i-have-longed-for/) [Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/40f/marcel-proust-114_death_to-think-that-i-have-wasted-years-of-my_2834313.jpg) > [My daughters had helped me to stop worrying about my appearance over the years. I wasted so many years thinking I wasn't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/meryl-streep/my-daughters-had-helped-me-to-stop-worrying-about-my-appearance-over/) [Meryl Streep](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/meryl-streep/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e9/meryl-streep-1078_appearance_my-daughters-had-helped-me-to-stop-worry_253206.jpg) > [Through our inattention, we have wasted the years that we might have used to prepare for lessened oil supplies. The next ten…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-s-deffeyes/through-our-inattention-we-have-wasted-the-years-that-we-might-have/) [Kenneth S. Deffeyes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-s-deffeyes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf8/kenneth-s-deffeyes-46003_climate_through-our-inattention-we-have-wasted-t_81340.jpg) > [“Fucking hell." He smoothed her hair back with shaking fingers before turning to kiss her cheek. "All those years wasted, when I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kit-rocha/fucking-hell-he-smoothed-her-hair-back-with-shaking-fingers-before/) [Kit Rocha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kit-rocha/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/855/kit-rocha-1634_gaze_fucking-hell-he-smoothed-her-hair-back-w_2304744.jpg) > [“Maybe it was me who put all the pressure on all those years. Perhaps I was the one who wanted to think…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/trista-hendren/maybe-it-was-me-who-put-all-the-pressure-on-all-those-years-perhaps-i/) [Trista Hendren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/trista-hendren/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/497/trista-hendren-28549_quote_maybe-it-was-me-who-put-all-the-pressure_1565855.jpg) > [You've always asked me to wait, as if we had time in abundance. But time is too precious, Perry. We've wasted years,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lisa-kleypas/you-ve-always-asked-me-to-wait-as-if-we-had-time-in-abundance-but/) [Lisa Kleypas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lisa-kleypas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f51/lisa-kleypas-111_abundance_you-ve-always-asked-me-to-wait-as-if-we_584422.jpg) > [To my friends who are still holding on... A sad thing about life is when you meet someone and fall in love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/to-my-friends-who-are-still-holding-on-a-sad-thing-about-life-is-when/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef2/anonymous-1_fall-in-love_to-my-friends-who-are-still-holding-on-a_2608000.jpg) > [“If it was a mistake not to finish school (it wasn't!), it was an even worse mistake to go to work. ("Work!…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-miller/if-it-was-a-mistake-not-to-finish-school-it-wasn-t-it-was-an-even/) [Henry Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-miller/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba2/henry-miller-179_failure_if-it-was-a-mistake-not-to-finish-school_1045824.jpg) > [“So here I am, in the middle way, having had twenty years— Twenty years largely wasted, the years of l'entre deux guerres…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot-2/so-here-i-am-in-the-middle-way-having-had-twenty-years-twenty-years-2/) [T.S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot-2/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb7/t-s-eliot-2-1761_failure_so-here-i-am-in-the-middle-way-having-ha_2152362.jpg) > [I am sorry to upset my colleagues by saying we wasted four years in opposition, but if you do get so badly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-clarke/i-am-sorry-to-upset-my-colleagues-by-saying-we-wasted-four-years-in/) [Kenneth Clarke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-clarke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c41/kenneth-clarke-14375_am-sorry_i-am-sorry-to-upset-my-colleagues-by-say_5868.png) > [“It depressed him to consider how much energy he had wasted, over the years, in the self-denying posture of apology. From now…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-yates/it-depressed-him-to-consider-how-much-energy-he-had-wasted-over-the/) [Richard Yates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-yates/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/06a/richard-yates-2840_apology_it-depressed-him-to-consider-how-much-en_2144720.png) > [Put the park rangers to work. Lazy scheming loafers, they've wasted too many years selling tickets at toll booths and sitting behind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/put-the-park-rangers-to-work-lazy-scheming-loafers-they-ve-wasted-too/) [Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/22b/edward-abbey-254_behinds_put-the-park-rangers-to-work-lazy-schemi_435211.png) > [“A hundred days wasted out of two years and a bit ... a day when you were not in my heart; not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/evelyn-waugh/a-hundred-days-wasted-out-of-two-years-and-a-bit-a-day-when-you-were/) [Evelyn Waugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/evelyn-waugh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ca/evelyn-waugh-850_two-years_a-hundred-days-wasted-out-of-two-years-a_304066.png) > [So understand Don't waste your time always searching for those wasted years. Face up...make your stand and realise you're living in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/iron-maiden/so-understand-don-t-waste-your-time-always-searching-for-those-wasted/) [Iron Maiden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/iron-maiden/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa4/iron-maiden-24850_golden-years_so-understand-don-t-waste-your-time-alwa_1687777.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/wasted-years/#itemlist", "name": "Wasted Years Quotes", "numberOfItems": 29, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“He watched her go out of the dark office like fifteen wasted years.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Graham Greene" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/he-watched-her-go-out-of-the-dark-office-like-fifteen-wasted-years/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c3/graham-greene-441_quote_he-watched-her-go-out-of-the-dark-office_1352376.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c3/graham-greene-441_quote_he-watched-her-go-out-of-the-dark-office_1352376.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c3/graham-greene-441_quote_he-watched-her-go-out-of-the-dark-office_1352376.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“He watched her go out of the dark office like fifteen wasted years.” — Graham Greene", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I wasted years worrying about what other people thought.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anonymous" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/i-wasted-years-worrying-about-what-other-people-thought/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e39/anonymous-1_fear_i-wasted-years-worrying-about-what-other_415667.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e39/anonymous-1_fear_i-wasted-years-worrying-about-what-other_415667.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e39/anonymous-1_fear_i-wasted-years-worrying-about-what-other_415667.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I wasted years worrying about what other people thought.” — Anonymous", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I wasted so many years in my youth.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Rob Liefeld" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-liefeld/i-wasted-so-many-years-in-my-youth/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3aa/rob-liefeld-6199_many_i-wasted-so-many-years-in-my-youth-63591_63591.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3aa/rob-liefeld-6199_many_i-wasted-so-many-years-in-my-youth-63591_63591.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3aa/rob-liefeld-6199_many_i-wasted-so-many-years-in-my-youth-63591_63591.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I wasted so many years in my youth.” — Rob Liefeld", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The wasted years ... 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Such people were very dear to those of us who'd only wasted a few years.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Denis Johnson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denis-johnson/he-d-wasted-his-entire-life-such-people-were-very-dear-to-those-of-us/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/35c/denis-johnson-2135_entire-life_he-d-wasted-his-entire-life-such-people_2734789.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/35c/denis-johnson-2135_entire-life_he-d-wasted-his-entire-life-such-people_2734789.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/35c/denis-johnson-2135_entire-life_he-d-wasted-his-entire-life-such-people_2734789.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“He'd wasted his entire life. 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He felt time moving through him, as if it were a ghost, a thing that can haunt a man's days and nights.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Cathie Pelletier" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cathie-pelletier/he-felt-the-rush-of-years-years-wasted-and-years-used-wisely-he-felt/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f9/cathie-pelletier-20205_time_he-felt-the-rush-of-years-years-wasted-a_365592.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f9/cathie-pelletier-20205_time_he-felt-the-rush-of-years-years-wasted-a_365592.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f9/cathie-pelletier-20205_time_he-felt-the-rush-of-years-years-wasted-a_365592.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“He felt the rush of years, years wasted and years used wisely. He felt time moving through him, as if it…” — Cathie Pelletier", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 13, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you'll never be able to forgive yourself for all those wasted years.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mignon McLaughlin" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mignon-mclaughlin/the-two-main-hazards-of-psychoanalysis-that-it-might-fail-and-that-if/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3dc/mignon-mclaughlin-742_able_the-two-main-hazards-of-psychoanalysis-t_1497724.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3dc/mignon-mclaughlin-742_able_the-two-main-hazards-of-psychoanalysis-t_1497724.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3dc/mignon-mclaughlin-742_able_the-two-main-hazards-of-psychoanalysis-t_1497724.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you'll never be able to…” — Mignon McLaughlin", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 14, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“We wasted ten years and you're worried about a few thousand miles? Hell, we've got airplanes, we've got email, they've invented fucking cell phones. Jesus, if it comes down to it, I'll even write you a fucking letter.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jane Harvey-Berrick" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-harvey-berrick/we-wasted-ten-years-and-you-re-worried-about-a-few-thousand-miles/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bab/jane-harvey-berrick-4206_cell-phone_we-wasted-ten-years-and-you-re-worried-a_350474.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bab/jane-harvey-berrick-4206_cell-phone_we-wasted-ten-years-and-you-re-worried-a_350474.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bab/jane-harvey-berrick-4206_cell-phone_we-wasted-ten-years-and-you-re-worried-a_350474.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We wasted ten years and you're worried about a few thousand miles? Hell, we've got airplanes, we've got…” — Jane Harvey-Berrick", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 15, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I have to believe that literature can effect change; otherwise, I would have no purpose in my life and would have wasted four years on 'Ilustrado.'", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Miguel Syjuco" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/miguel-syjuco/i-have-to-believe-that-literature-can-effect-change-otherwise-i-would/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8a/miguel-syjuco-8046_believe_i-have-to-believe-that-literature-can-ef_305902.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8a/miguel-syjuco-8046_believe_i-have-to-believe-that-literature-can-ef_305902.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8a/miguel-syjuco-8046_believe_i-have-to-believe-that-literature-can-ef_305902.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I have to believe that literature can effect change; otherwise, I would have no purpose in my life and would…” — Miguel Syjuco", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 16, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“To think that I have wasted years of my life, that I have longed for death, that the greatest love that I have ever known has been for a woman who did not please me, who was not in my style!”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Marcel Proust" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/to-think-that-i-have-wasted-years-of-my-life-that-i-have-longed-for/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/40f/marcel-proust-114_death_to-think-that-i-have-wasted-years-of-my_2834313.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/40f/marcel-proust-114_death_to-think-that-i-have-wasted-years-of-my_2834313.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/40f/marcel-proust-114_death_to-think-that-i-have-wasted-years-of-my_2834313.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“To think that I have wasted years of my life, that I have longed for death, that the greatest love that I…” — Marcel Proust", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 17, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "My daughters had helped me to stop worrying about my appearance over the years. I wasted so many years thinking I wasn't pretty enough and why didn't I have Jessica Lange's body or someone else's legs? What a waste of time.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Meryl Streep" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/meryl-streep/my-daughters-had-helped-me-to-stop-worrying-about-my-appearance-over/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e9/meryl-streep-1078_appearance_my-daughters-had-helped-me-to-stop-worry_253206.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e9/meryl-streep-1078_appearance_my-daughters-had-helped-me-to-stop-worry_253206.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e9/meryl-streep-1078_appearance_my-daughters-had-helped-me-to-stop-worry_253206.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“My daughters had helped me to stop worrying about my appearance over the years. I wasted so many years…” — Meryl Streep", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 18, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Through our inattention, we have wasted the years that we might have used to prepare for lessened oil supplies. The next ten years are critical.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Kenneth S. Deffeyes" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-s-deffeyes/through-our-inattention-we-have-wasted-the-years-that-we-might-have/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf8/kenneth-s-deffeyes-46003_climate_through-our-inattention-we-have-wasted-t_81340.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf8/kenneth-s-deffeyes-46003_climate_through-our-inattention-we-have-wasted-t_81340.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf8/kenneth-s-deffeyes-46003_climate_through-our-inattention-we-have-wasted-t_81340.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Through our inattention, we have wasted the years that we might have used to prepare for lessened oil…” — Kenneth S. Deffeyes", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 19, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Fucking hell.\" He smoothed her hair back with shaking fingers before turning to kiss her cheek. \"All those years wasted, when I could have been loving you.\" The answer was easy, obvious. \"You were.\" He choked on a laugh and coaxed her head back, urging her to meet his eyes. \"Fine, then. All those wasted years, I could have been being loved.\" \"You were that, too.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Kit Rocha" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kit-rocha/fucking-hell-he-smoothed-her-hair-back-with-shaking-fingers-before/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/855/kit-rocha-1634_gaze_fucking-hell-he-smoothed-her-hair-back-w_2304744.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/855/kit-rocha-1634_gaze_fucking-hell-he-smoothed-her-hair-back-w_2304744.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/855/kit-rocha-1634_gaze_fucking-hell-he-smoothed-her-hair-back-w_2304744.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Fucking hell.\" He smoothed her hair back with shaking fingers before turning to kiss her cheek. \"All those…” — Kit Rocha", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 20, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Maybe it was me who put all the pressure on all those years. Perhaps I was the one who wanted to think that staying small all those years would protect me. Being a princess caused me to misuse nearly 30 years of my life. I now call them, “My Wasted Years as the Princess of Nothing.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Trista Hendren" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/trista-hendren/maybe-it-was-me-who-put-all-the-pressure-on-all-those-years-perhaps-i/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/497/trista-hendren-28549_quote_maybe-it-was-me-who-put-all-the-pressure_1565855.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/497/trista-hendren-28549_quote_maybe-it-was-me-who-put-all-the-pressure_1565855.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/497/trista-hendren-28549_quote_maybe-it-was-me-who-put-all-the-pressure_1565855.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Maybe it was me who put all the pressure on all those years. Perhaps I was the one who wanted to think that…” — Trista Hendren", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 21, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "You've always asked me to wait, as if we had time in abundance. But time is too precious, Perry. We've wasted years, when we could have been with each other. Don't you understand how much even one day of loving each other is worth? Some people are separated by distances they can never cross. All they can do is dream about each other for a lifetime, never having what they want most. How foolish, how wasteful to have love within your reach and not take it!\" She clamped her teeth on her trembling bottom lip to steady herself", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Lisa Kleypas" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lisa-kleypas/you-ve-always-asked-me-to-wait-as-if-we-had-time-in-abundance-but/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f51/lisa-kleypas-111_abundance_you-ve-always-asked-me-to-wait-as-if-we_584422.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f51/lisa-kleypas-111_abundance_you-ve-always-asked-me-to-wait-as-if-we_584422.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f51/lisa-kleypas-111_abundance_you-ve-always-asked-me-to-wait-as-if-we_584422.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“You've always asked me to wait, as if we had time in abundance. But time is too precious, Perry. We've…” — Lisa Kleypas", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 22, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "To my friends who are still holding on... A sad thing about life is when you meet someone and fall in love only to find out in the end that it was never meant to be and that you have wasted years on someone who was not worth it. If he is not worth it now, he is not going to be worth it a year or 10 years from now.. LET GO", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anonymous" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/to-my-friends-who-are-still-holding-on-a-sad-thing-about-life-is-when/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef2/anonymous-1_fall-in-love_to-my-friends-who-are-still-holding-on-a_2608000.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef2/anonymous-1_fall-in-love_to-my-friends-who-are-still-holding-on-a_2608000.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef2/anonymous-1_fall-in-love_to-my-friends-who-are-still-holding-on-a_2608000.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“To my friends who are still holding on... A sad thing about life is when you meet someone and fall in love…” — Anonymous", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 23, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“If it was a mistake not to finish school (it wasn't!), it was an even worse mistake to go to work. (\"Work! The word was so painful he couldn't bring himself to pronounce it,\" says a character in one of Cossery's books.) Until I was almost eighteen I had know freedom, a relative freedom, which is more than most people ever get to know. (It included \"freedom of speech,\" which has hung over into my writing.) Then, like an idiot, I entered the lists. Overnight, as it were, the bit was put in my mouth, I was saddled, and the cruel rowels were dug into my tender flanks. It didn't take long to realize what a shithouse I had let myself into. Every new job I took was a step further in the direction of \"murder, death and blight.\" I think of them still as prisons, whorehouses, lunatic asylums: the Atlas Portland Cement Co., the Federal Reserve Bank, the Bureau of Economic Research, the Charles Williams Mail Order House, the Western Union Telegraph Co., etc. To think that I wasted ten years of my life serving these anonymous lords and masters! That look of rapture in Pookie's eyes, that look of supreme admiration which I reserved for such as Eddie Carney, Lester Reardon, Johnny Paul: it was gone, lost, buried. It returned only when, much later, I reached the point where I was completely cut off, thoroughly destitute, utterly abandoned. When I became the nameless one, wandering as a mendicant through the streets of my own home town. Then I began to see again, to look with eyes of wonder, eyes of love, into the eyes of my fellow-man.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Henry Miller" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-miller/if-it-was-a-mistake-not-to-finish-school-it-wasn-t-it-was-an-even/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba2/henry-miller-179_failure_if-it-was-a-mistake-not-to-finish-school_1045824.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba2/henry-miller-179_failure_if-it-was-a-mistake-not-to-finish-school_1045824.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba2/henry-miller-179_failure_if-it-was-a-mistake-not-to-finish-school_1045824.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If it was a mistake not to finish school (it wasn't!), it was an even worse mistake to go to work. 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