Erich Fromm Quotes

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Twenty-four hours is never enough for a busy person and way too much for somebody with nothing to do.

One of the surprises of her unoccupied state was the discovery that time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace

it doesn't take long to stay an hour.

There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon, and have nothing further to do. Then comes that hour when you are bored; that's the time for sex.

Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.

time wasted is not always a waste of time.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

Sometimes I get kind of bored if I go like a month or so and I'm not doing anything. At first I'm like, 'Cool, I'll have a little time off and I'll get to hang out with friends,' but then after a little while goes by I'm like, 'Oh,' and I really wish that I could go back and start doing work again.

I'm a person that thinks time is very precious and our only commodity... It's so upsetting when I feel like something has wasted my time.

Here's the deal: I believe - and I attempt to live my life this way - we all have more time than we think we do. We all waste so much time.

Clock watchers never seem to be having a good time.

I'm terrible when I have to fill up free time. My days, if I'm not working, I wake up and figure out a way to kill time until it's time to go to sleep.

I haven't made a movie for a while, but I've watched a lot. It's my major waste of time. I like to work, but also to be waiting for work.

There's never enough time to do nothing!

I think a lot of people have too much time on their hands.

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

The time I kill is killing me.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for you, because time is not a thing you have lost. It is not a thing you ever had.

One can only forget about time by making use of it.

It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.

Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

Killing time is the chief end of our society.