What color is yearning?

Yearning is yellow because…

• “The glorious, golden times you yearn for.”
• “I see yearning as a crown, and crowns are golden.”
• “When you’re yearning, you’re looking towards a light, or hope. I imagine the light to be yellow.”
• “It’s that excitement and anticipation for something bright, like the beautiful yellow sun coming out from behind the clouds.”

Yearning is pink because…

• “Yearning is pink because when you yearn for someone, you feel love.”
• “ Raw feelings.”
• “When yearning for something my heart feels very pink.”
• “Soft and intimate; wanting to be seen without screaming to be seen.”

Yearning is blue because…

• “It’s stretching your arms up to reach the sky and knowing you’ll never quite succeed.”
• “It’s sad and lonely. ”

Yearning is red because…

• “Red is passion. Passion is an intense want. That’s yearning. ”
• “Red is passion, love, jealousy, anger: all of the things that I think yearning encapsulates.”

Yearning is orange because…

• “Warm, curling, crawling like fire.”
• “Because it’s close to red which is the color of love. Orange is yearning for love.”

Yearning is green because…

• “Like the green light from The Great Gatsby.”
• “In a way it’s jealousy.”

Yearning is white because…

• “Yearning is white because this colour feels just blank, but it’s so overwhelming, just like yearning is to me.”