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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