Walter Pater Quotes

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

I really have this sense that time is passing, and it's important to do what you have wanted to do.

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Life is shockingly short; I don't want to waste that many days.

Life is too short to sit around doing nothing.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down, I try to fill the hours more meaningfully.

My theory is 98 percent of all human endeavor is killing time.

As far as I know, you only get one shot at this life. It only goes round once and time is precious. When I'm not working, you'd better spend that time with someone important.

I just don't want to watch TV, and I know that life is short. I feel like I couldn't do all the things I wanted to do if I had several lifetimes to do them in.

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Life is not a waste of time.

I want to live life, not just spend it.

Mostly I just kill time," he said, "and it dies hard.

Emptiness and boredom: what a complete understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair and boredom.

I haven't have fun for a long time," Kaia said with a pout. "Me, either. Except with myself, but I don't suppose that counts." "It does the way I do it.

A man living without conflicts, as if he never lives at all.

Now I feel life is really short and I have to take care of things.

I think that it's a crime to say you are bored when time is so precious and there are so many things to do in life: read, learn, watch.

Once I lived in time as a fish in water, breathing it, drinking it, sustained by it. Now I kill time and time kills me.

Life is short ... so why waste it doing something dumb?

Only now do I understand the war against boredom, the lost cause of empty hours, of empty days and nights.

Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn, and moreover my mother told me as a boy (repeatedly) 'Ever to confess you're bored means you have no inner Resources.' I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored.