A plurality say sorrow is blue. Click a color to add your vote.
Sorrow is blue because…
“Sorrow is deep sadness, and sadness is blue.”
“Sorrow is related to sadness, but sorrow is more intense than simply sadness, so sorrow is darker.”
“Sorrow is blue because blue is the colour of tears.”
“Tears.”
“Sorrow and sad are similar, and sad is often depicted as blue.”
“It’s sort of a deep blue. Deep sadness, deep in those blues.”
“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…
“Like a black, black sorrow; a story of such woe!”
“Sorrow reminds me of sparrows. Not only the spelling, but the symbolic meaning too.”
“It’s a dark and emotional color.”
“Sorrow is different than just being sad, which is what I associate blue with, but black is darker and feels more like grief.”
“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…
“It’s the color of a rainy day.”
“Sorrow isn’t vibrant, it’s a dullness that persists and lingers, like grey.”
“Blue is sadness while rey captures the dismal, depressingness of sorrow.
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“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.”