Quotes about a smile
A collection of quotes on the topic of smile.
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„My child, let your life come into the world of darkness
like a spark of light, without flicker and pure,
and thank them in silence. You know,
my child, they are cruel in their greed and envy,
their words are disguised knives thirsting for blood.
But do not be afraid, my child, go and stand in their hearts,
and let your gentle eyes fall on them like the forgiving serenity of the night.
My child, let them see your face and so they know it
meaning of all things, let them love and love one another.
Go, at sunrise, open and lift up your heart like a blooming flower,
and at sunset, bend your head and silently complete the worship of the day.
Remember, my child, gods and demons, ghosts and elves are fragments of one,
built by the hand of the abyss.
So, move on, go to the shore of the vast darkness,
there, is the Great Meeting of Children,
there, the sea gives a smile to the beach,
there, sing the waves facing death.“
— Alexis Karpouzos 1967
Source: https://dailywisdomwords.com/community-poetry/my-child/
„Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever the fuck you were gonna do anyway“
— Robert Downey Jr. American actor 1965
Robert Downey Jr. on Inside The Actors Studio, quoting Judd Nelson, 2006-07-09
„Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.“
— Mark Twain American author and humorist 1835 - 1910
„In real life, I'm a really smiley person. I smile when I talk and I laugh.“
— Billie Eilish American singer-songwriter 2001
„Nobody knows if Zidane is an angel or demon. He smiles like Saint Teresa and grimaces like a serial killer.“
— Zinedine Zidane French association football player and manager 1972
Jean-Louis Murat, 2004 http://www.theguardian.com/football/2004/apr/04/sport.features
„Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.
Writing a song is so personal. You have to have trust in someone you're working with; otherwise, you're not gonna come out with something that's really you.“
— Billie Eilish American singer-songwriter 2001
https://www.wmagazine.com/story/billie-eilish-new-ep/
„I hate smiling. It makes me feel weak and powerless and small. I've always been like that; I don't smile in any pictures.“
— Billie Eilish American singer-songwriter 2001
https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-books-music/a13040159/billie-eilish-interview/
„If my eyes could show my soul, everyone would cry when they saw me smile.“
— Kurt Cobain American musician and artist 1967 - 1994
„I don't like girls who wear lots of make-up and you can't see their face. Some girls are beautiful but insecure and look much better without the make-up, but decide to put loads on. I like girls with nice eyes and a nice smile.“
— Justin Bieber Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor 1994
Quoted in MTV Justin Bieber: "Girls Look Better Without Make-Up" http://www.mtv.co.uk/news/justin-bieber/202740-justin-bieber, April 2010
„A smile is the universal welcome.“
— Max Eastman American activist 1883 - 1969
Source: The Sense of Humor
„Whatever you see you gotta keep a sense of humor; you gotta be able to smile through all the bullshit.“
— Tupac Shakur rapper and actor 1971 - 1996
„"In twenty years," I said, smiling at her tears, "a man grows humble, Mary. I have stored within me a great fund of affection, with nobody to give it to, and I swear to you, on the word of a soldier, that if there is one of those ladies who can be got to care for me I shall be very proud." Despite her semblance of delight I knew that she was wondering at me, and I wondered at myself, but it was true.“
— J. M. Barrie, book The Little White Bird
Source: The Little White Bird (1902), Ch. 26
„Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they're having a piss.“
— Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
Other sources
Source: Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall
Context: Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums. Graffiti has more chance of meaning something or changing stuff than anything indoors. Graffiti has been used to start revolutions, stop wars, and generally is the voice of people who aren't listened to. Graffiti is one of those few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make somebody smile while they're having a piss.
„Haven't people learned yet that the time of superficial intellectual games is over, that agony is infinitely more important than syllogism, that a cry of despair is more revealing than the most subtle thought, and that tears always have deeper roots than smiles?“
— Emil M. Cioran Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911 - 1995
On the Heights of Despair (1934)
„There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.“
— Emil M. Cioran Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911 - 1995
„The deepest and most organic death is death in solitude, when even light becomes a principle of death. In such moments you will be severed from life, from love, smiles, friends and even from death. And you will ask yourself if there is anything besides the nothingness of the world and your own nothingness.“
— Emil M. Cioran Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911 - 1995
On the Heights of Despair (1934)