A plurality say grief is black. Click a color to add your vote.
Grief is black because…
“People wear black at a funeral.”
“Grief is black, because it sucks the joy out of life, leaving no colors. It is absence of light.”
“It makes you sad and lonely. ”
“Grief is about loss and black has connotations of emptiness, despite black actually being ‘all colours’ due to absorbing all colours from the sun. Black is a colour of absorbing sadness and the release of emotions.”
“It leaves you feeling empty inside and darkens your days. People also wear black at funerals.”
“Emptiness.”
“Grief is emptiness, and black is the absence of light.”
“Grief is black because its the feeling of emptiness”
“You wear bleak when mourning, which is a time of grief.”
“Sad and dark.
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“As someone whom is grieving right now, my world seems quite dark and black.”
“Grief is black because grief is dark, and so is black. It’s the darkest.”
“Because it’s dark like the grim reaper.”
“Grief is a very dark time.”
“Sad; it is worn at funerals.”
Grief is grey because…
“When coral dies, it turns gray, which makes me sad.”
“It looks like the saddest color.”
“Like a monotone filter over the world.”
“When you grieve something, all of the colour is sapped from the world.”
“It’s both everything and nothing at once, a whole in your chest and the tears in your eyes.”
“Grief is a shadow of despair, but grief is fleeting. Time must go on, and this makes grief a combination of black and white.”
“Grief is gray because when you grieve, the world is gray and murky and everything is blurry. Blurriness is gray for me.”
“Grey is loss and sadness.”
“Grief is grey because it’s empty and devoid of fortune. I can’t think of a single good thing that’s primarily grey.”
“It’s empty and dull.”
“The grey emptiness.”
“Because like a cloudy, rainy, gloomy day. ”
“Because of ashes.”
“Grief is grey because it feels like the dark clouds on a funeral.”
“Feels like there’s gravel in my chest.”
“Because black is more depressed and blue is more sadness, grief is just kind of a mix and its just an empty feeling, like the color.”
“It’s really tough, but not as dark as black since you know they are free from whatever caused them pain.”
Grief is blue because…
“Like tears and sadness.”
“‘G’ is blue and also ‘grief’ is sad and sadness is—obviously—blue.”
“A very dark ocean blue.”
“Like the depths of the ocean, and you can’t swim up unless you make a conscious effort.”
“Grief is sad and painful, and blue is sad and painful.”
“It’s full of sorrow, and blue is associated with sadness.”
Grief is green because…
“The words ‘grief’ and ‘green’ are kinda similar.”
Grief is purple because…
“It’s sad and angry, i.e. blue and red combined.”
Grief is brown because…
“The word just sounds brown.”
Grief is red because…
“It burns.”
Grief is white because…
“Grief is white because too much can blind you, it reflects everything that hits it, and it can be so easily messed up; to the point where you won’t want to do anything... it’s not the perfect metaphor, but I think it works.”
“It’s none of the colours, and all of the colours. It makes you want to bang your head against a wall, cry and scream, break something! Because everything is terrible and the world needs to know you’re upset!”