Does anyone know the history behind why the color Blue is associated with feelings of sadness or melancholy?

From Wikipedia
In the English language, blue may refer to the feeling of sadness. “He was feeling blue”. This is because blue was related to rain, or storms, and in Greek mythology, the god Zeus would make rain when he was sad (crying), and a storm when he was angry. Kyanos was a name used in Ancient Greek to refer to dark blue tile (in English it means blue-green or cyan).[3] The phrase “feeling blue” is linked also to a custom among many old deepwater sailing ships. If the ship lost the captain or any of the officers during its voyage, she would fly blue flags and have a blue band painted along her entire hull when returning to home port.

So, I guess, blame Zeus.

and green is way better.

No, but I have a really good and dirty joke that involves the color blue, emotions, and Halloween, what better time to post it.

A guy throws a Halloween party and asks all the attendees to come dressed as an emotion.

There’s a knock on the door, and one guest arrives dressed head to toe in blue.

“I get it, you’re sad,” says the host.

The next knock on the door is a person dressed completely in red.

“Aha, you must be anger,” says the host.

Next time the host goes to the door, it’s a person dressed head to to in green.

“Let me guess…envy, right?” says the host.

By this time the host is getting sick of people just dressed as a color and is hoping for something a little bit less predictable.

So he was both pleased and taken aback when the doorbell rang, and he sees a completely naked man, with the exception of a bowl of custard strapped around his groin.

The host thinks for a few minutes, “wait…wait, don’t tell me.” But eventually he’s stumped. “I give up,” he says, “what are you supposed to be.”

To which the guest replies, “I’m fuckin’ dis custed.”

and I have always liked green too, though black and purple rock my world as well…nothin’ against blue though

He was clearly from Massachusetts.

@dalepetrie. Thanks for the joke. LOL

UR welcome Bluefreedom

asmonet – funny, I always heard it as Brooklyn.

I can hardly wait to tell this joke to my son the psychoanalyst….

of course, then, there’s the whole Blues genre in music…

The color blue is also associated with calmness and is used in some logotypes when an association to technology is desired. At least here in Sweden.

Maybe the association to sadness has something to do with tears? They seem to often be depicted as blue.

Actually I have no clue and am of no help. :D

Now you are getting a teensy insight into my persona…acktully its getting more like the custd thing more often…‘specially round election time..

@dale: Well, it might be depends on who says it out loud and the inflection they choose, I originally applied a Boston accent to it because I heard my friend’s father say ‘custard’ once, and it sounded like that in my head. :)

maybe it has to do with the whole art thing. Blue is a cool color, red and green are warm colors, I don’t know, maybe these things are connected.