Smiling But Dying Inside Quotes

#1. There are a lot of people who can slide on talent their whole lives; they're just naturally gifted. I've never considered myself one of those people. I enjoy outworking the opposition.

Zac Efron

#2. She tells everyone she's an introvert." Cordelia sniffed. "It's a sad, psychological malady. Comes from reading way too much Kafka.

Ellen Hart

#3. Writing a play is like smashing that [glass] ashtray, filming it in slow motion, and then running the film in reverse, so that the fragments of rubble appear to fly together. You start - or at least I start - with the rubble.

Tom Stoppard

#4. Should we Knights, in years to come, dwindle into memory, perhaps the world will recall that in the days of our demise we stood, hewing at the fetters of captive men.

A.S. Peterson

#5. I suppose it's easier to see the way out of anything when you've found your way out of that maze. When you're stuck in the middle, in a series of dead-ends making circles, it's difficult to make any sense of anything.

Cecelia Ahern

#6. Glasses clinked and voices rubbed each other.

Maya Angelou

#7. We were meant to survive because of our minds' ability to reason, our ability to live with frustration in order to maintain our virtue. We wore smiling masks while dying inside.

Anchee Min

#8. If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots I would burn my [Gulliver's] Travels.

Jonathan Swift

#9. If God can make a firefly's butt light up like a star, then anything is possible. Anything.

Charles Martin

#10. Sick of crying, tired of trying, yes I'm smiling, but inside I'm dying

Unknown

#11. Sometimes the hardest part is telling the world you've been dying silently on the inside every day, and only surviving by smiling and faking it.

H.J. Bellus

#12. If I love you more than you love me, I'm as good as dead. Yet I can't make myself take it back. I can't just walk away from you, because every time you pass by me without smiling, without touching my hand, or at least making eye contact, it feels like I'm dying inside.

Rachel Vincent

#13. Chickens are brave till the foxes come at night; mortals are courageous till the death comes at twilight.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#14. Talk? Well, it's just Muff Potter, Muff Potter, Muff Potter all the time. It keeps me in a sweat, constant, so's I want to hide som'ers." "That's just the same way they go on round me. I reckon he's a goner. Don't you feel sorry for him, sometimes?" "Most always - most always. He ain't

Mark Twain