“A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.”
Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host
Source: The Exploration of Space
“Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.”
— Jane Austen, book Pride and Prejudice
Source: Pride and Prejudice
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Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host
The Exploration of Space (1951)
1950s
“Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
“Only the absurd could have any bearing on reality.”
Edmund Cooper (1926–1982) British writer
Sea-horse in the Sky (1969)
Electra to her mother Clytemnestra, Act 1
The Flies (1943)
“Regret is something for little children.”
Adolf Eichmann (1906–1962) German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer
During cross-examination at his trial, session 96, July 13, 1961, as quoted in Eichmann Before Jerusalem by Bettina Stangneth (2015).
Robert Graves (1895–1985) English poet and novelist
Country Sentiment (1920)
Context: I am an old man
With my bones very brittle,
Though I am a poor old man
Worth very little,
Yet I suck at my long pipe
At peace in the sun,
I do not fret nor much regret
That my work is done.
"Brittle Bones".
Henri Barbusse (1873–1935) French novelist
Light (1919), Ch. XXII - Light
Context: I do not regret my youth and its beliefs. Up to now, I have wasted my time to live. Youth is the true force, but it is too rarely lucid. Sometimes it has a triumphant liking for what is now, and the pugnacious broadside of paradox may please it. But there is a degree in innovation which they who have not lived very much cannot attain. And yet who knows if the stern greatness of present events will not have educated and aged the generation which to-day forms humanity's effective frontier? Whatever our hope may be, if we did not place it in youth, where should we place it?