“the unpunished crime is never regretted. We weep over the consequence, not over the fault.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)

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English poet and novelist 1802–1838

Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“Weep for life, with its toil and care,
Its crime to shun, and its sorrow to bear;
Let tears and the sign of tears be shed
Over the living, not over the dead!”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist

(21st August 1830) The Legacy of the Roses
The London Literary Gazette, 1830

“The band? It's over. Reunited because of the good cause (Live 8), to get over the bad relationship, and not to have regrets.”

David Gilmour (1946) guitarist, singer, best known as a member of Pink Floyd

Ruling out the possibility of a permanent reunion of Pink Floyd in the Italian newspaper La Repubblica (February 2006)

“A psychological consequence of this is the following: when we analyze a mechanism we tend to over estimate its complexity.”

Valentino Braitenberg (1926–2011) Italian-Austrian neuroscientist

Source: Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology (1984), p. 20

“Since the unfortunate victims pay for the pleasure themselves these are HIGH CRIMES that will go UNPUNISHED because they are self-inflicted.”

Margaret Cho (1968) American stand-up comedian

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, HATING ONESELF

“Your back always
looked small and weak
but we could laugh together
at funny stories.
But if people keep making
the same mistakes over and over
can they really regret them?”

Ayumi Hamasaki (1978) Japanese recording artist, lyricist, model, and actress

Teddy Bear
Lyrics, Duty

“The real horror is mass production. Painting when there is no compulsion to do so… …Pictures like that are all unpunished crimes.”

Bram van Velde (1895–1981) Dutch painter

short quotes, 3 April 1972; p. 86
1970's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde (1970 - 1972)

“If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.”

Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer

Not a Kerouac quote, but by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799), the German scientist, satirist, and Anglophile: http://www.quotes.net/quote/58450
Misattributed

“The true conquests, the only ones that cause no regret, are those made over ignorance.”

Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French

(November 26, 1797) as quoted in Andrew Roberts Napoleon: A Life p. 157

“We regret not having the courage to make such and such decision; we regret much more having made one — any one. Better no action than the consequences of an action.”

Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“the unpunished crime is never regretted. We weep over the consequence, not over the fault.”

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