![It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness.
[Lat., Stultum est in luctu capillum sibi evellere, quasi calvito maeror levaretur.]](/assets/img/quote-photos/it-is-foolish-to-pluck-out-ones-hair-for-sorrow-as-if-grief-could-be-assuaged-b.jpg)
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Grief ... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too much. Up till this I always had too little time. Now there is nothing but time. Almost pure time, empty successiveness. C. S. Lewis
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I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.
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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble. Agnes Repplier
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Strange that grief should now almost choke me, because another human being's eye has failed to greet mine. Charlotte Bronte
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Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive. The sternest-seeming stoic is human after all, and to burst with boldness and good-will into the silent sea of their souls is often to confer on them the first of obligations.
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The vehemence of emotion, stirred by grief and love within me, was claiming mastery, and struggling for full sway; and asserting a right to predominate: to overcome, to live, rise, and reign at last; yes,--and to speak.
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Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair. It is a true tale of grief and trial, and sorrow, young man," returned Mr. Brownlow, "and such tales usually are; if it were one of unmixed joy and happiness, it would be very brief. Charles Dickens
grief loss grieving
And can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up!
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A blight had fallen on the trees and shrubs; and the wind, at length beginning to break the unnatural stillness that had prevailed all day, sighed heavily from time to time, as though foretelling in grief the ravages of the coming storm. The bat skimmed in fantastic flights through the heavy air, and the ground was alive with crawling things, whose instinct brought them forth to swell and fatten in the rain.
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I never wore a single fedora filming L.A. Noire. It took about an hour and a half to do the hair - it was a very precise process. Aaron Staton
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We were trapping and rotating, but sometimes we were a hair slow. Casey Durham
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Above all, one hideous figure grew as familiar as if it had been before the general gaze from the foundations of the world - the figure of the sharp female called La Guillotine. It was the popular theme for jests; it was the best cure for headache, it infallibly prevented hair from turning gray, it imparted a peculiar delicacy to the complexion, it was the National Razor which shaved close: who kissed La Guillotine looked through the little window and sneezed into the sack.
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... when the locked door opens, and there comes in a young woman, deadly pale, and with long fair hair, who glides to the fire, and sits down in the chair we have left there, wringing her hands.
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When I'm not at work, I put deep conditioner in my hair and wear a baseball cap. I'll just roll around on the off-days with goop in my hair, and then just rinse it out. Sarah Rafferty
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The easier your hair is to manage the happier you'll be with it and the prettier you'll feel. Diane von Furstenberg
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When I'm in the Switzerland backcountry and nobody around looks like me, people were like, 'Can I touch your hair?' Dhani Jones
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I've never wanted anybody to like me because I had long hair or short hair, or that they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I smile. David Allan Coe
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There is, I am convinced, no picture that conveys in all its dreadfulness, a vision of sorrow, despairing, remediless, supreme. If I could paint such a picture, the canvas would show only a woman looking down at her empty arms.
sorrow despair prodigious
There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.
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Slight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment. Charles Caleb Colton
sorrow abstinence remains
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
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There isn't a new sorrow in the world -- they're all old ones -- but we can all find new happiness if we look in the right way. Myrtle Reed
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There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy. Jane Austen
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich. Alan Paton
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Wisely weigh our sorrow with our comfort. William Shakespeare
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Be of comfort, and your heavy sorrow Part equally among us; storms divided, Abate their force, and with less rage are guided. John Heywood