If you’re here, reading these quotes about fake smiles, you might be hiding sadness. Sometimes our emotions are troubling and there is pain behind our smiles.
Not every smile indicates that a person is happy, as these sayings and quotations show. Hopefully, the phrases will help you feel less alone, or help you to understand someone on a deeper level.
Feel free to browse this extensive collection of fake smile quotes. Hiding sadness with a smile is something that warrants help and support. Use these sad smile quotes to explain how you’re feeling.
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Fake Smile Quotes
1. “A fake smile may fool the crowd but it never eases the pain.” – Kelly Brook
2. “Fake a smile, no one knows you’re broken.” – Demi Lovato
3. “The saddest people smile the brightest.” – Unknown
4. “Only a best friend can see the pain behind a fake smile.” – Unknown
5. “A fake smile doesn’t make it to your eyes. A real smile is accompanied by smiling eyes.” – Rupert Everett
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6. “You can fake a smile but you can’t fake your feelings.” – Aaron Abelson
7. “Fake a frown, you hurt others. Fake a smile, you hurt yourself.” – Sarah Parker
8. “It’s not a fake smile, it’s called having manners and being polite. It’s human instinct.” – Daniel Craig
9. “I hide hurt behind a fake smile. I wear it all the time. Everyone says how I always look so cheerful. Shows what they know I guess.” – Ellen Hopkins
10. “You can only put on a fake smile for so long, then the truth begins to be disclosed.” – John Corner
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11. “And she will fool everyone with her fake smile and pretend to laugh.” – Unknown
12. “I’ve had a fake smile for so long, I don’t even know if it’s real or not anymore.” – Unknown
13. “Too often, behind that smile of mine, I hide a thousand tears.” – Alex V
14. “A loud smile is often a fake laugh.” – Saahil Prem
15. “I’d rather have a fake smile than a nasty stare.” – Tamara
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16. “A Fake Smile can prevent something bad from happening, but it can also create further misunderstandings.” – Saadat Khan
17. “Pain in heart, fake smile on the face. Life moves on and it becomes a habit.” – Varul Patidar
18. “Genuine happiness is not nearly as common as a fake smile.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
19. “People maybe smiling but look to the eyes because they can’t hide the sorrow, pain, and heartache they’re trying to hide behind their smile.” – Karon Waddell
20. “I can’t really act the way I want to act or say what I want to say all the time. And a lot of times, I cover that up with a smile.” – Hilary Duff
21. “I’m wearing this fake smile” – Daae Alf
22. “Here I was again tonight forcing laughter, faking smiles. Same old tired, lonely place.” – Taylor Swift
23. “Juniper laughed for real, but one of those fake smiles he considered a plague of the Caucasian race followed. If you’re sad, be sad, he wanted to say.” – Jo-Ann Mapson
24. “Bear with me while I plaster on a fake smile and plough through this shit one more time.” – Bill Hicks
25. “A fake smile can only be put on for some time. Because they are easily detected and disclosed.” – Saad Wakeel
26. “Gimme an honest frown over a false smile, any day.” – Gregory David Roberts
27. “And we put on a fake to smile to hide the pain, yet we wish someone would look closely enough and see how broken we really are inside.” – Unknown
28. “I smile not for that I am happy, but sometimes I smile to hide sadness.” – Rahim Chamkanai
29. “A fake smile rarely makes to eyes. The face seems dull instead of full of life.” – Tim Curry
30. “Behind my smile is everything you’ll never understand.” – Unknown
31. “It’s getting harder and harder to wear a fake smile every day because the more I wear it the more I know how much of a lie it is.” – Jack Davenport
32. “I was smiling yesterday, I am smiling today, and I will smile tomorrow. Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.” – Santosh Kalwar
33. “It’s not always the tears that measure the pain. Sometimes it’s the smile we fake.” – Unknown
34. “Girls fake smiles. Guys fake feelings.” – Unknown
35. “You walk through life much easier with a smile on your face.” – Sweet Paul
36. “Behind my smile is everything you’ll never understand” – Dylan
37. “The presence of someone we are angry at often makes us suppress or fake a smile or a laugh.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
38. “A smile is the best way to deal with a difficult situation, even if it’s a fake one. Used properly it can fool anyone” – Sai
39. “A fake smile can hide a million tears.”- Ben Barnes
40. “One day, I want someone to look past my fake smile, pull me close and say No, you’re not okay.” – Unknown
41. “Smiles are like band-aids, they cover up the pain. But still, it hurts.” – Unknown
42. “You look at me and think, ‘he’s so happy’ but there’s so much behind this fake smile that you will never know.” – Unknown
43. “Living with a fake smile, in this fake world.” – Sai Kiran Kaja
44. “Fake smile shines bright, hides the truth in its lies.” – Siim
45. “It’s amazing what you can hide just by putting on a smile” – Unknown
46. “You should step in my shoes, walk for a while, and maybe you will see how hard it is to hold back the tears and fake a smile” – Elizabeth Panos
47. “A smile is the best way to get away with trouble even if it’s a fake one” – Masashi Kishimoto
48. “I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it’s impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren’t feeling twinkly yourself. A mouth smile is different. You can fake a mouth smile any time you want, simply by moving your lips. I’ve also learned that a real mouth-smile always has an eye-smile to go with it, so watch out, I say, when someone smiles at you with his mouth but the eyes stay the same. It’s sure to be bogus.” – Roald Dahl
49. “All it takes is a beautiful fake smile to hide an injured soul… and they will never notice how broken you really are.” – Robin Williams
50. “She had the prettiest eyes & prettiest smile with wounds on her heart and bruises on her soul” – Tanya Gambhir
51. “Sometimes it hurts more to smile in front of everyone than to cry all alone.” – Unknown
52. “I miss those days when my smile was real.” – Unknown
53. “Smile are like band-aids, they cover up the pain. But still it hurts.” – Unknown
54. “Because sometimes you put on a smile, even though you’re going through tough times, but if we look past the smile, we would notice all the pain inside.” – Unknown
Holly Jaskolka is a certified Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) practitioner, yoga instructor, and an impassioned advocate for holistic well-being. Fueled by her love for animals and wanderlust, Holly leads a plant-based lifestyle that she complements with immersive travel experiences. When she’s not jet-setting to uncover the world’s hidden gems, she’s empowering individuals to heal emotionally, particularly those grappling with the aftermath of breakups. Connect with Holly on LinkedIn.
