A majority say sadness is blue. Click a color to add your vote.
Sadness is blue because…
“Tears are technically clear but are associated with blue anyway.”
“Tears are water, and water is most of the time blue.”
“Tears, Inside Out, the expression “feeling blue.” I think blue is officially the color of sadness.”
“Blue is another way to describe sadness, i.e. ‘I’m blue.’”
“Teardrops, Picasso, ‘feeling blue’, Inside Out.”
“I feel like this is self-explanatory.”
“Tears and water are blue.”
“Feeling ‘blue’.
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“If someone is ‘feeling blue,’ they’re sad...”
“Mainly Inside Out, but also tears and the deep dark blue at the bottom of an ocean.”
“‘The Blues.’”
“The movie ‘Inside Out.’”
“Tears are blue.”
“It’s just... gloomy.”
“Tears are blue.”
“Color psychology, I think. Blue is a calming color but when it’s overwhelming—especially if it’s a darker shade—it will make you sad. Also, the expression ‘feeling blue.’”
“Picasso’s blue period, Inside Out, feeling blue, etc.”
“Blue can feel isolating when it’s cloudy outside.”
“Tears are often shown as blue in cartoons.”
“When you’re feeling blue, that means you’re feeling sad.”
“Inside Out and tears.”
“Inside Out.”
“Sadness from inside out is blue and tears are made of water which, if you have alot of it and reflects the sky, becomes blue!”
“‘Why so blue?’”
“Blue is the colour of tears, and you shed tears when you are sad.”
Sadness is grey because…
“Like a grey day—moody.”
“Grey is boring and it makes you feel sad and lonely.”
“Depressing.”
“Sadness is like a rainy day—it’s gray.”
“Grey is a mix of white and black, the perfect harmony between life and death. It is the color of the clouded sky, of the rain that chokes out the light of the sun. It is the middle point between black and white, the sign of good memories beginning to fade...”
“Grey is depressing.”
“It’s not very vibrant.”
“Grey has no colour, matching how you feel with sadness, bland.”
“Grey is cloudy, but the rain has not arrived. It is the slowness in life, and the depression that forms from it is darker and deeper.”
“It gives sad vibes, like its not fully on one side (white), but also not completely on the other side (black).”
“It’s not vibrant; has no spark.”
Sadness is black because…
“ I have nothing but my sorrow and I want nothing more. It has been, it still is, faithful to me.
Why should I begrudge it, since during the hours when my soul crushed the depths of my heart, it was seated there beside me?
O sorrow, I have ended, you see, by respecting you, because I am certain you will never leave me.
Ah! I realize it: your beauty lies in the force of your being. You are like those who never left the sad fireside corner of my poor black heart.
O my sorrow, you are better than a well-beloved: because I know that on the day of my final agony, you will be there, lying in my sheets, O sorrow, so that you might once again attempt to enter my heart. ”
“Obviously.”
“Sadness is dark and dim.”
“Black is empty. Like a void. Like how you feel on a rainy day.”
“Black is a void, and when I am sad, I feel empty.”
“Darkness.”
“Sadness is darkness, and black signifies darkness to me.
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“It’s usually presented as a depressing color.”
Sadness is purple because…
“Purple is gloomy and dark.”
Sadness is orange because…
“Orange is the most forgotten colour. There’s the primary colours then green and purple are pretty but orange is sorta cast away. It’s like how people try to forget about their inner sadness.”