Steve Smith (cricketer) (1989) Australian international cricketer
Steve Smith after ball-tampering incident in March 2018. https://www.cricket.com.au/news/steve-smith-press-conference-ball-tampering-scandal-speaks-regret-bancroft-warner/2018-03-29
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Carlos Castaneda (1925–1998) Peruvian-American author
Source: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe, (1998), Quotations from The Teachings of Don Juan (Chapter 4)
“To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.”
Theodore Dalrymple (1949) English doctor and writer
Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet
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.
“It's better to act and to regret / Than to regret not to have acted”
Mellin de Saint-Gelais (1495–1558) French poet
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.”
Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet
Ibid., p. 111
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Ah, não há saudades mais dolorosas do que as das coisas que nunca foram!
“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.”
N. K. Jemisin book The Broken Kingdoms
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
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