Source: Lord Hartington's Resolutions on the Berlin Treaty (30 July 1878).
Eugène Boudin (1824–1898) French painter
Quote of Boudin from Venice, c. 1893-94; as cited in 'Venice, The Grand Canal', by Anne-Marie Bergeret-Gourbin https://www.museothyssen.org/en/collection/artists/boudin-eugene/venice-grand-canal, Museo Thyssen <br class="br">1880s - 1890s
“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
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
Jorge Luis Borges book Other Inquisitions
"The Flower of Coleridge" ["La flor de Coleridge"] — The title of this work makes reference to a line by Samuel Coleridge in Anima Poetæ : From the Unpublished Note-books of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1895), p. 282 : "If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake — Aye, what then?"
Other Inquisitions (1952)
