A plurality say regret is grey. Click a color to add your vote.
Regret is grey because…
“It’s dark like bad but there’s a mix of white cause there’s a little happiness in recognizing your failure.”
“Regret is gray, because gray is associated with sadness, grief, and isolation.”
“Emptiness.”
“It’s like black, but its not as corporeal, so grey.
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“Regret is grey because it fades out.”
“It cloud your mind, like a grey storm that always come back.”
“The dullness of the colour gray reflects this emotion within one.”
“You keep replaying the thing that you messed up in your mind, like a black and white movie, so grey.”
“Regret is dull and useless. The color grey can be beautiful, but if you relate it to regret, it adopts a new feeling.
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“You felt something positive then you suffer as the white darkens.”
“Not quite black (‘what is’) or white (‘what was’), but ‘what could have been.’”
“Regret is an old, bad memory. It fades away, but doesn’t fully evaporate, like a gray cloud.”
“Regret is grey because its a melancholy feeling, a dread-like sensation with no color; just a sinking feeling of something gone wrong.
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“Regret is grey because its a melancholy feeling, a dread-like sensation with no color; just a sinking feeling of something gone wrong.”
Regret is black because…
“It’s like a deep, dark, relentless hole in your heart. The darkness can keep eating away at it.”
“It feels like a black pit in the stomach.”
“Sometimes when you feel regret, you wish you would have said nothing instead of something. And black is nothingness.”
“It’s like a mistaken ink blot on your paper. Something you can’t quite get rid of, but you can ignore if you try hard enough.”
“Black reminds me of emptiness and nothingness, which also reminds me of things I should’ve said or done but didn’t.”
Regret is red because…
“Regret has the same first two letters as red. Also, pain is red, and regret is full of sorrow that feels like something stabbing you in the chest.”
“Like a red stain on a white couch.”
“Regret feels like a hatred for your previous actions and thoughts.”
“Red is the heat you feel, the shame of regret. ”
“You’re mad when you regret something… so that’s why I chose red!”
“It’s an open wound.”
“Regret and red share the first letter, and it gives hints of anger.”
“I feel like red means anger, and regret can make people angry.”
“Red is for pain, and regret is painful. Also red and regret both start with R.”
Regret is purple because…
“Purple can be a very deep color, and so is regret.
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“Regret is sadness and lonely—it’s almost black, but tinted purple. In my head, its a very pretty sort of black iridescent lace, like on a mourning dress from the Victorian era.”
“Purple can be a very deep color, and so is regret.”
“Purple is a mix of red and blue, which I associate with anger and sadness, respectively. Regret is anger at your actions and sadness because of their outcome.”
“As time passes, the pain from regrets slowly evaporates, which is why I don’t feel like regret is an aggressive color. Yet, regrets rarely disappears completely. They persist, they linger, they stand out—similar to how purple stands out from other colors.”
Regret is brown because…
“Regret is created when you keep going back and imagining what you could have done better, and it taints your memories. Brown is tainted by all colors and can easily be created by mixing the wrong colors, and that is the root of regret.”
“Brown is yucky, and regretting something feels yucky.”
“I’m not to familiar with regret, but I know that I’m going to have a lot of it in the future, and that the future feels brown.”
“Regret makes me feel disgusted with myself, and brown is a disgusting color.”
Regret is blue because…
“It flows through you like a river, sometimes rushes and sometimes is still. ”
“Tears. Blue tears going down your face when you regret your life choices and cry.”
“Blue is sad; regret is sad.”
Regret is green because…
“The feeling of realizing you made a mistake is almost like becoming physically ill, and illness is green.”
“Regret is green because that’s the color you turn when you eat something you’ll regret.”
Regret is yellow because…
“It’s just not a colour I would ever use on anything, and every time I have used it, I have instantantly either ruined or failed to achieve what I was working on.”