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“It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness.”

Ifs Grief Hair Sorrow Foolish Pluck Baldness

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“You are reduced / To the after-sorrow / That will last my lifetime. The hair-tearing / Grief of the mother / Whose child has been swept away.”

Children Has Beens Lasts Mother Grief Hair Sorrow Lifetime Swept Away

Book:Elegy: poems

Source: Elegy: poems

“How I will cherish you then, you grief-torn nights! Had I only received you, inconsolable sisters, on more abject knees, only buried myself with more abandon in your loosened hair. How we waste our afflictions! We study them, stare out beyond them into bleak continuance, hoping to glimpse some end. Whereas they're really our wintering foliage, our dark greens of meaning, one of the seasons of the clandestine year -- ; not only a season --: they're site, settlement, shelter, soil, abode.”

Source: Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters

“As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer's long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn't touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn't stop.”

Long Faces Moving Stuff Water Dark Grief Behinds Hair Arms Weight Throat Floating Catching Touch Me Swimmer Slick Long Hair

Book:The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

“Afterward, I curl around her. We lie in silence until darkness falls, and then, haltingly, she begins to talk...She speaks without need or even room for response, so I simply hold her and stroke her hair. She talks of the pain, grief, and horror of the past four years; of learning to cope with being the wife of a man so violent and unpredictable his touch made her skin crawl and of thinking, until quite recently, that she'd finally managed to do that. And then, finally, of how my appearance had forced her to realize she hadn't learned to cope at all.”

Thinking Men Needs Years Made Pain Past Lying Fall Speak Realizing Rooms Grief Silence Darkness Four Wife Hair Horror Skins Response Appearance Violent Four Years Strokes Unpredictable Curls

Author:Sara Gruen

“Fireheart dashed to the warrior's side. Cloudtail was standing stiff-legged, every hair in his pelt on end as if he were facing an enemy. His eyes were fixed on the limp heap of tabby fur huddled at his paws. "Why, Fireheart?" Cloudtail wailed. "Why her?" Fireheart knew, but rage and grief made it hard to speak. "Because Tigerstar wants the pack to get a taste of cat blood," he rasped. The dead cat lying in front of them was Brindleface.”

Ifs Want Made Ends Hard Eye Lying Speak Sides Grief Enemy Blood Fronts Hair Taste Standing Cat Rage Made It Warrior Fixed His Eyes Packs Fur Paws Why Her Tigerstar

Author:Erin Hunter

“Cry your grief to God. Howl to the heavens. Tear your shirt. Your hair. Your flesh. Gouge out your eyes. Carve out your heart. And what will you get from Him? Only silence. Indifference. But merely stand looking at the playbills, sighing because your name is not on them, and the devil himself appears at your elbow full of sympathy and suggestions. And that's why I did it....Because God loves us, but the devil takes an interest.”

Heart Eye Names Heaven Interest Grief Silence Cry Tears Hair Devil Flesh God Love Indifference Shirts Suggestions Elbows Howl God Loves Us

Book:Revolution

Source: Revolution

“It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.”

Made Would Be Grief Kindness Tears Hair Sorrow Heartbreak Adversity Foolish Moving On Breakup Thoughtful Broken Heart Heartbroken Hang In There Baldness

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“These are the folk who may pass into the kingdom of heaven: the grief-stricken, lovers, scholars of a certain obsessive disposition. Brute beasts. Women who have become as men and men who have become as women. Writers of books with long titles. Only those knights who have failed to touch the Grail. Industrious women. You, and I, and a boy named Oleg, and a girl with blue hair.”

Men May Long Book Certain Girl Heaven Grief Boys Hair Lovers Blue Folks Kingdoms Titles Beast Scholar Disposition Knights Brutes Obsessive Kingdom Of Heaven Industrious Blue Hair

Author:Catherynne M. Valente

“Though a country be sundered, hills and rivers endure; And spring comes green again to trees and grasses Where petals have been shed like tears And lonely birds have sung their grief. ...After the war-fires of three months, One message from home is worth a ton of gold. ...I stroke my white hair. It has grown too thin To hold the hairpins any more.”

May Has Beens War Country Home Three White Grief Fire Tree Tears Hair Months Messages Spring Bird Rivers Lonely Gold Green Endure Hills Grass Shed Strokes Three Months Petals White Hair

Author:Du Fu

“Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.”

Women Grief Hair Husband Capacity Gold Thirds Died Extraordinary Affection

Author:Oscar Wilde