Quotes & Sayings About Smiling While Hurting

I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933. — Sally Rand

A friend in need is a pest. — Bobby Heenan

A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them. — Stephen King

And there isn't a chance in hell I'd miss seeing you walk down that aisle. I've fought way too fucking hard for you. — Christina Lauren

Plato, the first true pope of philosophy (sorry, Socrates), argued for a World of Forms above the reality-a transcendent plane of perfect essences, pure and lovely, where nothing ever gets muddy (including the essence of mud.) — N.D. Wilson

Well, I need to stay in France for another six months or so. You'll need to live there with me for a bit before we can buy a house Stateside. — Christina Lauren

He was more than comfortable with the language of imperious persuasion. — Dan Jones

Scholars tell us that there was no word in ancient Latin or Greek for "self" as it is understood in contemporary usage. — James Carroll

I fell in love with Lo like a little girl opening her heart to magic. — Krista Ritchie

I've always thought fairies are like mushrooms, you trip over them when you're not thinking about them, but they're hard to spot when you're searching for them. — Jo Walton

Young people, take heart: the older you get, the fewer commandments you will have the strength to break. — Mark Russell

Bless all useful objects,
the spoons made of bone,
the mattress I cook my dreams upon,
the typewriter that is my church
with an altar of keys always waiting. — Anne Sexton

Hardcore groups were singing songs about Ronald Reagan. I wasn't interested in this and preferred to sing about the darkness shimmering beneath the shiny quilt of American pop culture. I suppose you could say that Sonic Youth was always trying to defy people's expectations. — Kim Gordon

So we grapple with the mysteries, each in our own way. And some of us get to float around on one of them and call it home. — Jandy Nelson