Quotes About Sad Smiles

#1. Sometimes the children asked Eddie to lift them over his head, and when Eddie complied, he saw the mothers' sad smiles: He guessed it was the right lift but the wrong pair of arms.

Mitch Albom

#2. Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows
Like the wave;
Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men.
Love tends life a little grace,
A few sad smiles; and then,
Both are laid in one cold place,
In the grave.

Matthew Arnold

#3. 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great poet Basho in 1689.

Richard Flanagan

#4. But smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad.

Anne Bronte

#5. Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?

Vikram Seth

#6. Tears of joy are lighter than smiles of sorrow.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#7. How did I not see it? Pain is everywhere. I'm just another sorry story. All these people wearing smiles, dragging themselves around
do they all know already? Do they realize how fast the world can change?

Amy McNamara

#8. Hole ... " He grips Risa's hand tighter. "Hole, Risa, hole ... " And she smiles "Yes, Connor," she says. "You're whole. You're finally whole.

Neal Shusterman

#9. Juniper laughed for real, but one of those fake smiles he considered a plague of the Caucasian race followed. If you're sad, be sad, he wanted to say.

Jo-Ann Mapson

#10. Her laugh was sad and taciturn, seemingly detached from any feeling of the moment, like something she kept in the cupboard and took out only when she had to, using it with no feeling of ownership, as if the infrequency of her smiles had made her forget the normal way to use them.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#11. But wherefore could not I pronounce 'Amen'? I had most need of blessing, and 'Amen' Stuck in my throat.

William Shakespeare

#12. I don't know if I could write ten easy ways to connect with an audience. I know you have to believe in what you're doing, you have to believe in your music, believe in your ability, believe that what you're doing is honest and true and real.

Ramsey Lewis

#13. A shining isle in a stormy sea, We seek it ever with smiles and sighs; To-day is sad. In the bland To-be, Serene and lovely To-morrow lies.

Mary C. Ames

#14. Peeta smiles at me, sad and mocking. Okay. Thanks for the tip, sweetheart.

Suzanne Collins

#15. I had just got married when I started writing my fourth novel. I'd come back from honeymoon, moved into our first house - a gorgeous little carriage house in London - and made my office on the third floor, overlooking the treetops in North West London.

Jane Green

#16. All his smiles were just a little sad around the edges, as if he knew happiness never could last very long

Melanie Benjamin

#17. Indio started forward and took the big man's hand as naturally as he'd taken his mother's. Come on! Maude's making roast chicken and there'll be gravy and dumplings.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#18. The soul's tears are worth more than the heart's smiles.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#19. This is the United States of America. It means we respond to our fellow Americans in times of crisis and emergency and disaster.

Bob Menendez

#20. I lock onto his beautiful blue eyes, memorizing his face. The way his eyes crinkle at the corners when he laughs, the way they flash blue when he's happy and grow dark when he's sad. I'll miss his flop of dark hair and his dimples when he smiles.

Elle Strauss

#21. Belief is harder to shake than knowledge.

Adolf Hitler

#22. The locals died and shrivelled with the autumnal leaves as their plastic, seasonal smiles faded with the last of the holidaymakers.

Moonshine Noire

#23. When I'm sad, she comes to me with a thousand smiles.

Jimi Hendrix

#24. I want him so badly it hurts. But I want all of him. Not just the sex. I want his smiles and his teasing, his smouldering looks. His sad eyes when he thinks nobody's watching. Most of all, I want his heart.

L. H. Cosway

#25. Are you ever afraid to go to sleep? Afraid of what comes next?"
He smiles a sad little smile and I swear it's like he knows. "Sometimes I'm afraid of what I'm leaving behind," he says.

Lauren Oliver

#26. The heart's smiles help wipe away the soul's tears.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#27. Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden ... It is sad that Nature will play such tricks on us poor mortals, inviting us with sunny smiles to confide in her, and then, when we are entirely within her power, striking us to the heart.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#28. The Hollywood image of the movie business is all about ambition and high achievers like James Cameron. But the British film industry is much more about men who wear cravats and work with model trains and hope another series of 'Thomas the Tank Engine' will be commissioned.

Peter Capaldi

#29. Love Egoist
What I find really sad is ... his smiles, his kindness ... are inspired by a love potion and they don't really mean anything!

Bisco Hatori

#30. The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.

Lech Walesa

#31. The funny thing about a smile is that once you wear a smile, the darkness lightens and one does not feel frightened or sad any more.

Deepak Menon

#32. I suggest you all ask your mothers to make you some smiles and keep them in your pockets. If you ever find any one feeling sad or frightened or angry, then you can give them a smile and you will see what a change takes place.

Deepak Menon

#33. The warming springtime of human hope does not give in to the wintry smiles of the cynic and the realist; it blossoms and it perishes in the sad autumnal winds. And then it is born again - for ever and ever.

Richard Stites

#34. You'll meet her. She's very pretty, even though sometimes she's sad for many days at a time. You'll see, when she smiles, you'll love her.

Guillermo Del Toro

#35. I'm touched, Rixon. A bomb. How elaborate. Why didn't you keep things simple and just march inside my bedroom one night and put a bullet between my eyes?

Becca Fitzpatrick

#36. Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#37. In that one moment, I wrapped a thousand others. A lifetime of joy, sorrow, laughter, frowns, smiles, tears ... life!

Faraaz Kazi

#38. Democracy, loudly upheld as a cure for much of the ailing world, has proved no guarantor of political wisdom, even if it remains the least bad form of government.

Pankaj Mishra

#39. One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.

Juvenal

#40. Despite the legacy of slavery, the near extermination of native Americans, and persistent racial, sexual, and social discrimination, the citizens of the United States could plausibly claim, in 1945, to live in the freest society on the face of the earth.

John Lewis Gaddis

#41. Sometimes, people meant it when they smiled. Other times, they smiled because they wanted to mean it.

Shannon A. Thompson

#42. Well, life is like that sometimes", Isabel said. "We learn things too late, and then we don't get to use them.

John Scalzi