Wasted Years Quotes

“Pride is nothing more than false courage without long term solutions.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Oh hawk, what's your damage—
are you here to pick the bones

of the years I laid waste to
like I never loved a thing? So be it.”
― Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems

“But, in yourself, you said that you would write about these people ... and for once it would be written by some one who knew what he was writing of.

But he would never do it, because each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

“For those of you who have childhood memories with pain or loss in them, it probably doesn't take much to recall those grievances and grudges. But as we look at the power of confronting the truth about your past, I hope that you (...) can avoid the waste before the days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, and months turn into years. You can take control. You can avoid those wasted years.

And it's never too late to start.”
― Kevin Leman, What Your Childhood Memories Say about You . . . and What You Can Do about It

“Perhaps, but I have eaten bitter decades up
already, just to choke on what is
something more divine than grief,
having swallowed the glories such suffering brings.”
― Jill Alexander Essbaum, Heaven

“Too much time on my hands, I got you on my mind.
Can't ease this pain, so easily.”
― Iron Maiden, Iron Maiden: Somewhere Back In Time The Best of: 1980-1989: The Best of 1980-1989

“But it’s over. It’s over and you know it-
No League Championships. No FA Cups. No European Cups-
The roar and the whistle. The applause and the adoration-
Finished forever. Second best. Forever.”
― David Peace, The Damned Utd