A plurality say sorrow is blue. Click a color to add your vote.
Sorrow is blue because…
“Tears.”
“Reminds me of tears, rain, darker colors and gradients that relate to sorrow.”
“Sad is blue and sorrow is sad.”
“‘Feeling blue’ and blue tears, at least in stylized drawings.”
“Sadness and sorrow are very similar, so because sadness is blue, sorrow is also blue.”
“Sorrow is a kind of a mixture of greys, blues, and whites. Blue is for the sadness, grey is for hopelessness, and white is for getting out of it again.”
Sorrow is black because…
“Blue is sad, but I feel like sorrow is sadder, so its black.”
“Depression comes from sorrow. Depression is black, like a funeral. What’s to say sorrow can’t be black either?”
“The colour of your eyes and the circles underneath darkens, and you carry a dark overall gloom, seen as black.”
“I imagine it is black because I see it as the sister to grief; the solemn night after the initial pain and suffering.”
“Sorrow feels like a void of feeling.”
“Funerals are black.”
“It’s like a pit of despair.”
Sorrow is grey because…
“Well black is death and sorrow is a sad colour, but it doesn’t feel like blue, so it’s grey.”
“It’s not quite a color, its a shade, its not black or white. It doesn’t belong, it’s... sad.”
“It’s like the colour and life is sucked out of it, so it’s sorrowful.”
“Because all the color gets drained out of life.”
“Its mellow, empty, nothing.
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“It’s even more dreadful than sadness, so grey would fit.”
“Because Grey feels like when the world goes numb around you.”
“While sadness and sorrow might be similar, sorrow is objectively worse, but not bad enough to be black, so I’d say gray.”
Sorrow is brown because…
“The word sorrow is similar to sparrows, which are brown.”
“Brown to me is just an all around depressing color.”