Quotes About Sadness Behind A Smile

#1. Behind this smile in my face
Lies the dark shadow of emptiness
Hiding from your eyes within my gaze
Concealed with sham happiness.

Alexia Chase

#2. And the stretch-across-your-entire-face smile?

From the people around me. Despite the
lonely, despite the sadness, despite the anger
their smiles make the hearts Aphrodite left
behind beat faster / louder.
They make my heart beat in my chest again.

Darshana Suresh

#3. Oh salty sea, how much of your salt Is tears from Portugal?

Fernando Pessoa

#4. Whether I'm writing about plumbers or psychics or psychic plumbers, I want to find a creative space that imprisons me usefully, so I can deviate with purpose.

Heidi Julavits

#5. Behind every sweet smile, there is a bitter sadness that no one can ever see and feel.

Tupac Shakur

#6. The only one who really knows about the Reichstag is I, because I set it on fire!

Hermann Goring

#7. I wonder, with all the flowers in the garden, how many of them ever think of hanging themselves with the garden hose, if ever they can.

Anthony Liccione

#8. Put your feelings out there to the other person. Let time, the universe, and destiny run its course. Don't overstate your feelings to other person and don't force the square peg.

David Mezzapelle

#9. You know, it's not the people in Hollywood who go to see movies that will make a movie successful; it's the people all around the country; it's word-of-mouth.

Pia Zadora

#10. Um, hate to break it to you, nut Em doesn't need justice", I pointed out, voice heavy with sarcasm. "She needs to not get cut with a knife in the first place. Women are finicky that way - we like not getting cut.

Joanna Wylde

#11. Someone once asked, 'What's your best pickup line?' I said, 'My best pickup line is, 'Hi, my name is Hugh Hefner.'

Hugh Hefner

#12. For a human being, sadness is as powerful as terror. Sadness makes a warrior shed tears of blood.

Carlos Castaneda

#13. I'm sure the president doesn't enjoy being called deporter-in-chief.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#14. I'm not saying therapy is bad, it's just too much work for me. I'm more about embracing my broken self for all that she can be.

Donna Augustine

#15. Behind her smile I could see o many other things, a catastrophic sadness. I had assisted to the selfless guardians of the unfortunate children who suffered infinite loss, their family, their homes, and nature as they had known and trusted.

Patti Smith

#16. I make impact plays. I make game-changing plays.

LeBron James