Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it.
~ Erich Fromm
One sin seldom mentioned is that of killing time.
~ Vera Nazarian
A friend to kill time is a friend sublime.
~ Haruki Murakami
And she was really good at that: even since she was a little girl, she could eliminate the hours, knew how to kill the minutes. Without them suffering from it, she put them to sleep.
~ Nicola Lecca
Wishing, like sipping a glass of punch, or pulling aside a bearskin rug in order to access a hidden trapdoor in the floor, is merely a quiet way to spend one's time before the candles are extinguished on one's birthday cake.
~ Lemony Snicket
