“A true friend sees the pain in your eyes, even when you have a big smile on your face” or “A real/true friend is someone who sees the pain in your eyes, while everyone else believes the smile on your face” is a friendship saying that has been printed on many images. “A true friend is someone who sees the pain in your eyes while everyone else believes the smile on your face” was posted on the newsgroup find friends on November 21, 2005. Authorship is unknown.
   
“A real friend is someone who can see the pain in your eyes when the whole world believes the smile on your face” was posted on Twitter by PricillaMariaBrown on November 9, 2009. “A real friend is someone who sees the pain in your eyes while everyone else believes the smile on your face” was posted on Twitter by Jesslyn Chitra on February 15, 2010.
   
”@smileey_bear: A true friend sees the pain in your eyes, even when you have a big smile on your face” was posted on Twitter by Suck My Persuasion on October 21, 2012.
     
     
Google Groups: find friends
**The Best Quotes**
aim
11/21/05
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“A true friend is someone who sees the pain in your eyes while everyone else believes the smile on your face”
     
Google Groups: BSACET
Good Morning!
ManishKumarGupta
9/27/06
Othe
A true friend is someone who sees the pain in your eyes while everyone else still believes the smile on your face… 
   
7 May 2007, Argus Leader (Sioux Falls, SD), “Friendship is an aspect of life we can control” by Shirley Halleen, pg. 4D, col. 3:
Some unknown author has said, “A friend is someone who sees the pain in your eyes while everyone else believes the smile on your face,” and, “A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart.”
     
Jemima’s Journal
Are you a Good Friend?
July 27, 2007
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COMMENTS
Angele Says:
July 28, 2007 at 3:01 am
Blog hopping!
🙂
Good friends are so rare to find nowadays…
“A true friend is someone who sees the pain in your eyes while everyone else believes the smile on your face.”
 
Twitter
Vick Grayson
@VickGrayson
A true friend is someone who sees the pain in your eyes while everyone else believes the smile on your face…
8:39 PM - 28 Apr 2009
     
Twitter
PricillaMariaBrown
@LalaBrown816
A real friend is someone who can see the pain in your eyes when the whole world believes the smile on your face
3:47 PM - 9 Nov 2009
   
Twitter
Jesslyn Chitra
@JESSLYNCHITRA
A real friend is someone who sees the pain in your eyes while everyone else believes the smile on your face
9:50 PM - 15 Feb 2010
     
Twitter
FairFashion Magazine
@Fairfashionmag
A real friend is someone that can see the pain in your eyes when others still believe in that smile on your face. <3

11:40 AM - 28 Mar 2010
 
Twitter
Suck My Persuasion ✌
@yawhitegirl
”@smileey_bear: A true friend sees the pain in your eyes, even when you have a big smile on your face.”
9:02 PM - 21 Oct 2012
 
Twitter
Vicky
@Vicky95H
RT @iUglyTruth: A true friend sees the pain in your eyes, even when you have a big smile on your face.
9:07 PM - 21 Oct 2012
 
Google Books
Who Is Your Friend?
By Martin N. Kwaning
Xlibris LLC (Xlibris.com)
2013
Pg. 11:
“A true friend is someone who sees the pain in your eyes while everyone else believes the smile on your face.”
Unknown Author
 
Google Books
Worthy a Friend:
Search What You Want and Discover It!
By Sichangwa Andrew
Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse
2014
Pg. 37:
A real friend is one who sees the pain in your eyes while everyone else still believes there is a smile on your face.
   
Google Books
Devoted: Satan’s Rebels MC Series, #5
By Kira Johns
Published by author
2016
Pg. ?:
A true friend is someone who sees the pain in your eyes while everyone else believes the smile on your face.