55 Inspiring Quotes About Hair

Every strand of hair tells a story, and sometimes, it takes just a few words to capture the essence of those tales. Whether it's the pride in rocking natural curls, the excitement of trying a bold new color, or the confidence that comes with a fresh cut, our relationship with our hair is deeply personal and universally relatable. In this blog post, we've gathered 55 of the most inspiring quotes about hair. These quotes celebrate the beauty, strength, and individuality that our hair represents. Get ready to be uplifted and empowered by words that honor the glorious crown on your head.

1. “If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.” - Hillary Rodham Clinton

2. “My hair had grown out long and shaggy—not in that sexy-young-rock-star kind of way but in that time-to-take-Rover-to-the-groomer kind of way.” - Jim Butcher

3. “Long hair will make thee look dreafully to thine enemies, and manly to thyfriends: it is, in peace, an ornament; in war, a strong helmet; it...deadens the leaden thump of a bullet: in winter, it is a warm nightcap; in summer,a cooling fan of feathers.” - Thomas Dekker

4. “People always ask me how long it takes to do my hair. I don’t know, I’m never there.” - Dolly Parton

5. “Some of the worst mistakes in my life were haircuts” - Jim Morrison

6. “Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?'Frank Zappa: 'You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?” - Frank Zappa

7. “The night crackled ... Everything had turned to static electricity in the heat. I combed my hair to watch the sparks fly from the ends.” - Janet Fitch

8. “There's a reason why forty, fifty, and sixty don't look the way they used to, and it's not because of feminism, or better living through exercise. It's because of hair dye. In the 1950's only 7 percent of American women dyed their hair; today there are parts of Manhattan and Los Angeles where there are no gray-haired women at all.” - Nora Ephron

9. “And yonder sits a maiden, The fairest of the fair, With gold in her garment glittering, And she combs her golden hair.” - Heinrich Heine

10. “Beware of her fair hair, for she excelsAll women in the magic of her locks; And when she winds them round a young man's neck, She will not ever set him free again.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

11. “WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE: RAPUNZELFor horse thieving, kidnapping, jail breaking, and using her hair in a manner other than nature intended!REWARD” - Shannon Hale

12. “I’ve seen knives pierce the chest,Children dying in the roadCrawling things hooked and baited,Rapists bound and then castrated,Villains singed in public square.Yet none these sights did make me cringeLike when my Love cut all her hair.” - Roman Payne

13. “I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines. ” - Alice Sebold

14. “She was the most beautiful creature on Earth - her hair said so in that language only hair can speak.” - Gabriel Bá

15. “Long hair will send you to hell!” - Hidekaz Himaruya

16. “Like some winter animal the moon licks the salt of your hand,Yet still your hair foams violet as a lilac treeFrom which a small wood-owl calls.” - Johannes Bobrowski

17. “gray hair is gods graffiti” - Bill Cosby

18. “I think that the most important thing a woman can have- next to talent, of course- is her hairdresser.” - Joan Crawford

19. “OK. Yoga position 99.” - Nicholas Reardon

20. “I'm talking about a little truth-in-packaging here. To be perfectly frank, you don't quite look like yourself. And if you walk around looking like someone other than who you are, you could end up getting the wrong job, the wrong friends, who knows what-all. You could end up with somebody else's life."I shrugged again, and smiled. "This is my life," I said. "It doesn't seem like the wrong one.” - Michael Cunningham

21. “Phyllida's hair was where her power resided. It was expensively set into a smooth dome, like a band shell for the presentation of that long-running act, her face.” - Jeffrey Eugenides

22. “No one likes it, apart from blind people, and I'm sure even they can sense it's profound ugliness as it passes by.” - Richard Curtis

23. “Whatever the reason, first place was always Solo, always, always, always, and second place was usually Chewbacca, because if you weren't the one saving the galaxy, you might as well be eight feet tall and covered with hair.” - Charles Yu

24. “This was all very well: Columbanus's success indicates the appeal of his mission. But his activities, for the first time, brought the nature of Celtic monasticism firmly to the attention of the Church authorities -- to western bishops in general, and to the Bishop of Rome in particular. The Irish monks were not heretical. But they were plainly unorthodox. They did not look right, to begin with. They had the wrong tonsure. Rome, as was natural, had 'the tonsure of St Peter', that is, a shaven crown. Easterners had the tonsure of St Paul, totally shaven; and if they wished to take up an appointment in the West they had to wait until their rim grew before being invested. But the Celts looked like nothing on earth: they had their hair long at the back and, on the shaven front part, a half-circle of hair from one ear to the other, leaving a band across the forehead.” - Paul Johnson

25. “Tucker strokes my hair. There's something so tender about the gesture. It might as well have been him whispering I love you.” - Cynthia Hand

26. “All things old become new again. In my youth the athletes had crew cuts and the hippies had long hair. Now the athletes have long hair and the hippies are bald.” - Harley King

27. “It was an odd situation. For a century and a half, men got rid of their own hair, which was perfectly comfortable, and instead covered their heads with something foreign and uncomfortable. Very often it was actually their own hair made into a wig. People who couldn't afford wigs tried to make their hair look like a wig.” - Bill Bryson

28. “I have to be a ginger for 3 weeks.” - Katy Perry

29. “He had the prettiest hair she had ever seen on a man: dark brown, almost black, and soft like sable, it fell down to his shoulders. She wondered what he'd do if she threw some mud in it. Probably kill her.” - Ilona Andrews

30. “Naturally curly hair is a curse, and don't ever let anyone tell you different.” - Mary Ann Shaffer

31. “Her father sagged as relief spread through him. “I thoughtsomething awful was happening.”She frowned. “Something awful was happening. It could havegot stuck in my hair.” - Derek Landy

32. “I’ve seen daggers pierce the chest,Children dying in the road,Crawling things hooked and baited,Rapists bound and then castrated,Villains singed in public square.Yet none these sights did make me cringeLike when my Love cut all her hair.” - Roman Payne

33. “First people lose their hair, then their vices, then their motivation. Then a toupee brings it all flowing back.” - Bauvard

34. “Nico’s hair was combed straight up, stiff with mousse, the tips dyed the color of traffic cones.” - Frederick Weisel

35. “I can just imagine what the humidity has done to my hair. I'm going to meet your family looking like a poodle with a live wire shoved up its butt." - Paige Winterbourne” - Kelley Armstrong

36. “... And the boy whose hair remained the color of lemons forever.” - Markus Zusak

37. “Valerie Jennings had clearly searched deep within her wardrobe for something suitably flattering, only to retrieve a frock of utter indifference to fashion. There had been an attempt to tame her hair, which seemed to have been abandoned, and the fuzzy results were clipped to the back of her head."You look nice," said Hebe Jones.” - Julia Stuart

38. “Guys who know how to use a blowdryer... Their hair is too long!” - Mallory hopkins

39. “Skulduggery.""Fletcher."Fletcher stuck out his hand. Skulduggery observed it for a moment."I'm sorry, what are we doing now?""Shaking hands," Fletcher said. "Like adults. I just want you to know that this past year has changed me. I've grown, as a person. I'm not the same Fletcher you used to know."You look a lot like him.""Well, yeah, but-""And you have the same ridiculous hair.""Can we just shake hands?""Of course we can," Skulduggery said, and they shook. "Now what?""I, uh...I don't really know. What do adults usually do after they shake hands?""Generally, the first thing they do is let go.""Oh, right," Fletcher said, and Skulduggery took his hand back. "So, Skulduggery, how have you been? You're looking well. That's a really nice tie."It's blue.""And such a nice shade."Skulduggery looked at Valkyrie. "You promised me he wouldn't be annoying.” - Derek Landy

40. “A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.” - Coco Chanel

41. “We'll probably never save our souls - but hell, at least we'll get our hair sorted.” - Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi

42. “A prison chaplain in the West of England confessed he had given up one prisoner as hopeless, so stubborn was he against any approach by him, and known throughout the jail as the most truculent and obstinate troublemaker.But one day the governor was told of a visitor who insisted on seeing him. To his surprise, it was a little girl. "He's my daddy," she explained, "It's his birthday." The governor allowed the prisoner to be sent for."Daddy," said the child as he was brought in, "this was your birthday, so I wanted to come and see you." Then taking a lock of hair out of her pocket, she offered it to him. "I had no money to buy a present for you. But I brought this, a lock of my own hair."The prisoner broke down and clasped her in his arms, sobbing. He became a changed man after that and guarded, as his most precious possession, the lock of hair that reminded him that somebody still loved him.” - Francis Gay

43. “Who cuts hair, while she is heart broken. Is it just me"?” - Escapades

44. “I think the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course, - is her hairdresser.” - Joan Crawford

45. “I have a message for your daughter,” said Cale. “I am bound to her with cables that not even God can break. One day, if there is a soft breeze on her cheek, it may be my breath; one night, if the cool wind plays with her hair, it may be my shadow passing by.” And with this terrible threat he faced forward and the procession started once more. In less than a minute they were gone. In her shady room Arbell Swan-Neck stood white and cold as alabaster.” - Paul Hoffman

46. “Not at all. It's why people come. They say it's about looking smart, or beautiful, or professional, but it's not. Gray-haired ladies try to recapture their former brunette. Brunettes want to go blond. Other women go for colors that don't arise innature. Each group thinks it's completely different than the others, but I don't see it that way. I've watched them looking at themselves in the mirror, and they're not interested in conforming or rebelling, they just want to walk out of here feeling like themselves again.” - Antony John

47. “As your abilities begin to grow, your angelic side will start to manifest itself in more noticeable ways.""My angelic side. Great. Like I don't have enough to deal with.""It's not so bad," Mom says. "You'll learn to control it.""I'll learn to control my hair?” - Cynthia Hand

48. “...strands of your hair and tendrils of the wind spin into nothingness the memories of that day...” - John Geddes

49. “...I recall that day on the beach - the sand so brilliant, the clouds so massive, and the wind punishing your hair...” - John Geddes

50. “Man, Grandma, what big hair you have.""The better to style with, my dear.” - Neal Shusterman

51. “He blew himself up.”“Get out! You mean like guts all over the place?”“Not all over the place,” I said. “He was pretty well contained, all things considered.” - Janet Evanovich

52. “I forced myself to breathe deeply; perhaps they would have vanished. Perhaps I'd been imagining them because Brae was gone and I was scared without him, and now that he was back I'd feel safe enough again that they would go away. Perhaps it was just paint or something and would have been washed out by the sea spray earlier. I breathed again, feeling much calmer and then, slowly, opened my eyes.” - Heather James

53. “Don't panic. Say, Hey, no problem. Run a hand through your hair like the whiteboys do even though the only thing that runs easily through your hair is Africa.” - Junot Diaz

54. “Nobody wants to give up a weekend-long excuse to dress up and attempt to outshine one another.” - Elizabeth Eulberg

55. “Elizabeth called it my mane of hair; I called it my bane of hair. However, it was far worse looking when it was short, sticking straight up or out at awkward angles; at least when it was long it almost obeyed gravity.” - Penny Reid