Ibid., p. 50
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Um tédio que inclui a antecipação só de mais tédio; a pena, já, de amanhã ter pena de ter tido pena hoje.
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Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Mellin de Saint-Gelais
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Original: Mieux vaut faire, et se repentir / Que se repentir, et rien faire
Source: Quatrains, LXXVIII
“There's no regret more painful than the regret of things that never were.”
Ibid., p. 111
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Ah, não há saudades mais dolorosas do que as das coisas que nunca foram!
Sergey Lavrov
(1950) Russian politician and Foreign Minister
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“I would rather have regrets of excess than regrets of denial.”
Jeanette Winterson
(1959) English writer
“I…regret…what I did. It was wrong. Very wrong. But regret is meaningless.”
Source: The Broken Kingdoms (2011), Chapter 16 “From the Depths to the Heights” (watercolor) (p. 283)
“True remorse is never just a regret over consequence; it is a regret over motive.”
Mignon McLaughlin
(1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.”
Lucille Ball
(1911–1989) American actress and businesswoman
Variant: I'd rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.
Variant: Id rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not done.