For love was a kind of folly, a losing game. The greatest of all Wastes of Time. But then, that depended on what you thought time was for.

About This Quote

This quote is a part of a poem called “The Waste Land” written by T.S. Eliot. It has many meanings including the whole world wasting its time, love being a waste of time, the love that is wasted, and the concept of how time is wasted.

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