Pretend Quotes
Kurt Vonnegut
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
3201Simona Panova
Emotions don’t interfere in my acting, nor in my life.
2982 Simona Panova
And I wasn’t playing a role – I was trying to be myself.
But the harder I was striving, the more I was realizing that I had probably lost that ‘myself’ somewhere between two perfectly performed roles...
4826 Richelle E. Goodrich
Chameleonesque, hobbitish, unicorned, stompled, selfishism, and unwakeable may not be real words, but you do know what they mean.
3966 Rae Carson
I think sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves we’re imagining it. Because it is the most painful kind of hope there is.
2180 Sophie Kinsella
If I behave as though this is a completely normal situation, then maybe it will be ...
4597 Alex Flinn
It's easier to fake it. When you fake it for sixteen years, it becomes part of you, something you don't think about.
4466 Kemi Sogunle
Never pretend to be who you are not. It doesn't take long before the truth gets revealed and you'll be left hurt with the results.
2193 Jennifer Harrison
I have always been quite good at falling in love, but I don’t pretend to know anything about literal happily ever afters.
4936 Iain Thomas
Everyone changes so slowly, they don't even know that they have. And everyone likes to pretend that things are just the same yet they look at you like you could bring something back that's supposed to already be here. But home is a time. Not just a place.
2658 Richelle E. Goodrich
There are things
that make no sense,
that seem unreal,
that can’t be grasped
or understood
or explained,
that maybe don’t even exist…
And still, somehow, those wonderful things touch and change our lives.
Isn’t it strange?
2733 Richelle E. Goodrich
Imagine fantasy and pretend as neither fantastical nor pretended.....and then believe it.
1246 Tommy Tran
We live in a world full of people who are satisfied with pretending to be someone they are not.
1487 Charlie Sheen
The best way to not get your heart broken, is pretending you don't have one.
2398 Emma Abdullah
It's always comforting to tell yourself things are going to be alright, because even if a part of you senses that you're lying, it's comforting to shut it out- shut out reality and pretend- because pretending is nice.
2360 Richelle E. Goodrich
Reality is a background so painted over by our own perceptions that every eye sees the world differently.
3114 Marcia Sirota
On top of the abuse and neglect, denial heaps more hurt upon the child by requiring the child to alienate herself from reality and her own experience. In troubled families, abuse and neglect are permitted; it's the talking about them that is forbidden.
4037 Amit Kalantri
Heroes are hero no matter if everybody is watching them or nobody watching them.
4495 J.D. Stroube
Over the years, I learned to smile or laugh when I was supposed to. I kept my true self hidden; I did not need to unleash my pain on the world around me. Instead, I taught myself to ignore it. I did not realize that the pain was eating away at my soul.
3586 Anthony Liccione
I guess it's better to have a chalk smile, than an ink smile. Where chalk changes with the direction of wind, ink stays as a deep stain. Like rain, sun and hail against a fake plant.
1014 Someone
Humanity is the word we use when we kill in the name of society.
Humanity is the word we use to make them believe we can feel.
Humanity is the word we use to cover up our dreadful crimes.
humanity is the word we use to pretend we are not monsters.
Humanity, humanity, humanity! There, now we are invincible
2173 Rebecca McNutt
So many people spend years (and money) studying to be doctors, lawyers, actors, dancers, business executives and scientists - when you're an author, you can be any of these things, and you don't need a degree or certificate; all you need is an imagination, a dream and an open mind.
3034 Rebecca McNutt
Mandy would much rather have imaginary friends who were real than real friends who were imaginary.
2414 Jodi Picoult
And that was the greatest heartbreak of all- no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect we pretend they are, they are bound to disappoint. As it turns out, kids are more like us than we think: damaged, through and through.
4229 Bill Willingham
We live through the belief of children...Regicide is suicide, citizens. Inscribe that in your hearts. The Great Pretend is a fragile construct.
3328 Jay Woodman
The steady soul and the ego pretender / walk with their arms round each other's shoulders / through the mirage.
3717 Tracy Anne Warren
To give herself a measure of credible autonomy, she had decided to invent a husband. Then, in a subsequent flash of inspiration, she had just as quickly killed him off.
2026 Tiffany Madison
Never trust someone that claims they care nothing of what society thinks of them. Instead of conquering obstacles, they simply pretend they don't exist.
2693 Lucas Sterk
In this world we are all pretenders, and Society is our game
1716 Nichole Chase
Don't you agree that if I act like there is nothing going on, other people will behave that way too?
3548 Dave Eggers
This was a new skill she'd acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and even cheerful, while, in her skull, all was chaos.
4582 Simona Panova
Everybody is equally weak on the inside, just that some present their ruins as new castles and become kings –
2270 Simona Panova
Paranoia. The more you think of an imaginary problem, the more you feel as though it’s real –
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