„While, like a ghastly rapid river,Through the pale doorA hideous throng rush out foreverAnd laugh — but smile no more.“

— Edgar Allan Poe

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„The chief indignant grins a ghastly smile.“
— Homér
„He comes silently and unannounced; yet all--how strange--yea, all recognize Him, at once! The population rushes towards Him as if propelled by some irresistible force; it surrounds, throngs, and presses around, it follows Him…. Silently, and with a smile of boundless compassion upon His lips, He crosses the dense crowd, and moves softly on.“
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
„twice I have lived forever in a smile“
— E.E. Cummings
„Frank heard a laugh behind him. He glanced back and couldn't believe what he saw. Nico di Angelo was actually smiling."That's more like it," Nico said. "Let's turn this tide!“
— Rick Riordan