To not pursue the thing one wants would be a waste of one's life.
It is sheer straight waste of life through dogged stupidity.
General, you know you have only to give the order and the attack will be made, but I must tell you that I think it a useless waste of brave lives.
Instead Lee took Longstreet’s advice and surrendered at Appomattox.
Do you remember you shot a seagull? A man came by chance, saw it and destroyed it, just to pass the time.
Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.
The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
I don't think all life is precious. I know people say that all the time, "Life is precious." I think some life is precious, and some life is just a waste of protoplasm. Start over.
In the context of worship, amusement is a waste of time and a waste of life, and therefore a form of sin.
Painfully to attain possession of what we do not want, and then painfully to waste our days in attempting to rid ourselves of it, seems to be a part of our discipline here below.
The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life.
Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst.