“We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.”
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Milan Kundera book Identity
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part One: Lightness and Weight
Variant: For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.
Source: Identity
“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!
“It is a sweet, albeit most painful, feeling
To know we are regretted.”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
The Improvisatrice (1824)
“I don't regret the painful times; I bare my scars as if they were medals.”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
Jim Carrey (1962) Canadian-American actor, comedian, and producer
Carrey: 'Life Is Too Beautiful': Star Talks About Bouts With Depression And His Spirituality http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/11/18/60minutes/main656547.shtml 60 Minutes (21 November 2004)
“It's regrets that make painful memories. When I was crazy I did everything just right.”
Mark Vonnegut (1947) American physician and writer
Source: The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity
“You aren’t old enough to have such regrets.”
“Pain doesn’t respect age, my lady.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Source: Styxx
