“I suffered from post-natal depression after Rowan was born. I had a healthy, beautiful baby girl and I couldn't look at her. I couldn't hold her, smile at her. All I wanted was to disappear and die.”
A smile costs nothing and changes everything — or so the saying goes. These quotes explore the power of a simple expression to lift moods, build connections, and make the world slightly less serious than it insists on being.
“I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.”
“I suffered from post-natal depression after Rowan was born. I had a healthy, beautiful baby girl and I couldn't look at her. I couldn't hold her, smile at her. All I wanted was to disappear and die.”
“I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.”
“Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.”
“If you're able to help some people and make them smile and make them realize that life is good, then that's worth so much more than buying a pair of shoes.”
“Usually, if you smile at them and show some interest in the toy, they will give it to you. That's a straight up Democrat move!”
“If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest.”
“She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.”
“Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There's still that part of me that wants to hold my head up, make eye contact and smile.”
“There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.”
“They might not need me but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.”
“Laughter is day, and sobriety is night a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.”
“I had ordered long legs, but they never arrived. My eyes are weird too, one is gray and the other is green. I have a crooked smile and my nose looks like a ski slope. No, I would not win a Miss contest.”
“You know when someone's over-flattering you in a way. You smile but you can't believe it.”
“I'm really exciting. I smile a lot, I win a lot, and I'm really sexy.”
“The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.”