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

“If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.”

“I have always thought that if women's hair posed so many problems, God would certainly have made us bald.”

“No music was made from grief, moulded from sorrow.”

“There is no such thing as was—only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow.”

“I lived my grief; I slept mourning and ate sorrow and drank tears. I ignored all else.”

“For there is a certain luxury in grief; especially when we pour out our sorrows in the bosom of a friend, who will approve, or, at least, pardon our tears.”
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“Opportunity is like a bald-headed man with only a patch of hair right in front. You have to grab that hair, grasp the opportunity while it's confronting you, else you'll be grasping a slick bald head.”

“It hurts the bald-head just as much as the thatched-head to have his hairs plucked.”

“The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.”