I didn't expect you to have learnt to smile yet. When one is born, one only knows how to cry. It's only very gradually that one learns to smile. (Halldór Laxness)

I didn't expect you to have learnt to smile yet. When one is born, one only knows how to cry. It's only very gradually that one learns to smile.

Halldór Laxness

Related topics

born cry expect learn smile yet

Related quotes

Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times. And a very small number really. View quote
Brandon Lee
[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth. View quote
Stephen Hawking
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself. View quote
Truman Capote
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime. View quote
Erich Fromm
It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way. View quote
Ernest Hemingway