What do yellow tulips mean? Yellow tulips, it is the colour of a flower of unrequited and hopeless love. The love that contains an everlasting consistency of unsurely holding onto someone. A selfless love, given to a careless person. Otherwise, yellow symbolizes happiness and hope... a light of hope amid a dark path and a void life. She was wrapped by her nightmares. She was trapped in their past, knowing that she had lost something she had never had. YELLOW TULIPS A Novella of NovelisTeen