Regret, a wistful, somber work by John Sanborn in The FEAR Quartet, serves as a testament to our tortured relationship with time, decisions, and their ensuing emotional reverberations. Entwining itself with the larger narrative of the collection, this piece seeks to expose the anguish that festers when decisions are incessantly tormented by hypotheticals and the ghost of what might have been, proffering a reflection on the inevitability and acceptance of regret.

Satisfaction is distorted by regret concerning our decisions as if each splinter of time could be (or should be) regulated by choice – resulting in paralysis as it’s unreasonable to deliver a verdict without the passage of time. When we yield, we must live with regret. - John Sanborn