Best Pretend Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

Society Trust Overcoming Vanity Overcoming Obstacles Pretend Trustworthiness Pretentiousness

Author:Tiffany Madison

“Don’t pretend to be right, because if you are right there’s no need to pretend.”

Lying Deception Fake Wrong Falsehood Right Pretend Correct Incorrect

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Nobility is a lie. A pretence that high standing comes from anything more than money or martial prowess. Any dolt can play the noble, and as you'll discover in time, daughter, it's mostly dolts who do.”

Source: Tower Lord

“Power comes at a price, love," Veliss replied through bared teeth, maintaining the smile she offered to the townsfolk lining the square. "What power?" "All power. The power to rule, to kill, or, in your case this fine morning, the power to incite the lust of the old goat you're about to meet." "Lust? I have no desire to incite lust in anyone." Veliss turned to her with a quizzical expression, her smile suddenly genuine. "Then I'm afraid you're in for a lifetime of disappointment.”

Source: Queen of Fire

“A friend is way less likely than a boyfriend or girlfriend to make us pretend to be someone we are not; or that our family is a good family, or way better, or way less crazy or dysfunctional than it actually is.”

Friendship Relationship Friends Girlfriend Be Yourself Friend Boyfriend Pretense Pretend Someone

Book:On Friendship: A Satirical Essay

Source: On Friendship: A Satirical Essay

“Fear your friends. Beware of your close friends. Be alert to whom you cast your trust. Because not all of them will help you to build your future. Some are just pretending to be. Some are just there because they need your hand. Some are secretly pulling you down. Some are just there because simply they need you. They will leave you anytime. Be careful.”

Friends Careful Betray Traitor Pretend

Author:Nathaniel E. Quimada

“I keep everything hidden because there's nothing about my true self that anyone likes. I'm not difficult, Sebastian. I'm the easiest person around. I don't belong, and I spend all my time pretending I do. Sometimes I get weary of it, and that makes me angry. It's not fair to the people around me when I lose my temper. I say awful things when I'm angry. But it's not fair to me, either, that I was made this way.”

Self Simple Angry Complicated Not Fair Hide Pretend Fair Belong

Book:The Countess Conspiracy

Source: The Countess Conspiracy

“You can only do so much pretending before you become the thing you're pretending to be.”

People Emotion Attitude Personality Human Act Authentic Pretend

Book:An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

Source: An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“I always am in a role, lovely – for you, for them – even for myself. Yeah... Even when I’m alone, I am still in a role – and I myself am the most exacting audience I have ever had.”

Source: Nightmarish Sacrifice

“To ‘pretend’ is to say that I’m willing to waste the precious energy that it takes to pretend, and I’m unwilling to cultivate the bravery that it takes to be real. And I am at a complete loss to pretend that either of these aren’t true.”

Real Truth Fear Honest Honesty Bravery Brave Authenticity Denial Fake Frank Truthful Avoidance Authentic Pretend Avoid False Forthright

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Knowing to do the right thing, but playing stupid to oblige to it, is still lying.”

Honesty Willing Fool Honor Fake Lie True To Yourself Doing The Right Thing Pretend Trick Hurting Yourself Decieve Oblige Acknowlege Facing Reality Hide Playing Stupid

Author:Anthony Liccione

“If I’m pretending I’m either attempting to expand the scope of my world through the magic of my imagination, or I’m attempting to flee the whole of it because of the depth of my fear.”

World Fear Imagination Fantasy Frightened Pretending Pretend

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“And then I did the best thing I knew to do with the strange concoction of sadness and hope brewing inside me. I prayed. I prayed for the people whose initials were on those slivers. Not just for those people, but for the cave people before them and the robot people after them. For real orphans. For all the people who have lost shoes in the road. For kids whose parents play war. For Toodie Bleu Skies and Toodi Bleu Nordenhauer, for M. B. McClean and Douglas Nordenhauer. And all the people who need to find the magic in Make Believe. That, I figured, just about covered the whole world.”

Love Imagination Prayer Make Believe Pretend

Book:Sway

Source: Sway

“To pretend is to do nothing more than imagine life as something wonderful so that we don’t have to incur the pain that it takes to actually make life wonderful.”

Life Pain Suffering Change Imagination Work Imagine Wonderful Sacrifice Influence Commitment Transformation Pretending Transform Pretend Sacrificing

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“There are not nearly as many facts as there are opinions about the facts.”

Facts Justify Manipulate Opinions Pretend Rationalize Perspectives Twist

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A non-disabled person who pretends to be one, only to rely on begging, has unwittingly allowed poverty to monopolise his destiny.”

Poverty Destiny Rely Person Begging Pretend Handicap Disable Monopolize Unwittingly

Author:Elijah Onyemmeri

“A non handicapped person who pretends to be one just to rely on begging, has ignorantly allowed poverty to monopolise his destiny.”

Poverty Destiny Ignorance Begging Pretend Handicap Monopolise

Author:Elijah Onyemmeri

“Nobody can teach you how to like something. You can like it, or you can pretend to like it, in order to make someone happy.”

Teach Pretend

Book:Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights?

Source: Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights?

“Some of those who faked it until they made it are now faking not to have made it.”

Success Spirituality Wealth Successful Impression Broke Privacy Minimalism Pretend Fake It Till You Make It

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“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...”

Source: Nightmarish Sacrifice

“16. Christians should never consult astrologers, psychics, or those who practice witchcraft (see Isaiah 47:13-14). They are usually phonies who only pretend to have extrasensory powers. But in some cases, they are working in cooperation with Satan. Rather than tamper with this evil world, the one true God wants us to bring our needs, problems, and decisions to Him. He has promised to lead us into all truth (see John 8:32).”

Source: Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

“Was goodness still good if you hewed it out of tactical necessity? Was there, Baru wondered, any difference between being good and pretending to be good for your own gain, if you took the same actions in the end? Was there any difference between telling the truth unconditionally, and deploying the truth in service of your agenda, if you told the same truth?”

Truth Goodness Good Pretending Tactics Pretend Tactical Agenda

Book:The Monster Baru Cormorant

Source: The Monster Baru Cormorant

“Even suicidal people can smile.”

Sadness Sad Depression Suicide Smile Unhappy Suicidal Smiling Depressed Pretend

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“People love to pretend they eat centauri honey every day”

People Life Philosophy Life And Living Reality Of Life Pretend People Nature Centauri Honey

Author:Alexander Kraft

“There are people who openly love me; The ones who just love me; The ones who pretend they don't love me; And there are also those who love me, but they still haven't figured it out.”

People Love Pretend Figured

Author:Augusto Branco

“We've been shattered and reconstructed, told to make an effort every single day to pretend we still function the way we're supposed to. But it's a lie, it's all a lie; every person, place, thing and idea is a lie. I do not function properly. I am nothing more than the consequence of catastrophe.”

Lies Story Lie Shattered Pretend Tahereh Mafi Juliette Ferrars Shatter Me Series Unravel Me

Book:Unravel Me

Source: Unravel Me

“May you live a life as holy and perfect as you pretend it to be in Facebook”

Holy Lies Fake Pretend

Author:Maria Nieves

“who did I think we were. who did I think I could make you. this is the oldest mistake, to confuse wanting with magic. silence is the undoing of every spell, and we are experts in the unsaid. even now, I forget to put us in past tense. as if the air in this city were the same. as if love is anything like its speaking.”

Mistake Silence Magic Words Pretending Speaking Spoken Word Pretend Wanting Unsaid

Author:Marty McConnell Emily Kagan Trenchard

“The steady soul and the ego pretender / walk with their arms round each other's shoulders / through the mirage.”

Soul Ego Steady Pretend Pretender Mirage Publishing

Author:Jay Woodman

“I must confess, that my heart is like a frozen lake, only pretends to be firm, to shroud its tearful ache. So tread over this heart, as often as you like, but one of these days, if it feels your warmth strike; its cold, thin surface will abruptly break asunder, and then it won’t resist from pulling you deep under.”

Love Heart Poetry Cold Heartache Warmth Confession Pretend Lake Strike

Author:Akash Mandal

“Νομίζω ότι έχουμε χάσει την ικανότητα μας να είμαστε αυθόρμητοι. Είμαστε όλοι σφραγισμένοι απ'αυτό το χρόνο, είμαστε όλοι προκαθορισμένοι. Έχουμε ξεχάσει το τι είναι να γελάς και να νιώθεις όμορφα γελώντας.”

Joy Fake Spontaneous Losing Yourself Pretend Greek Quotes

Book:Love

Source: Love

“For a moment, I could pretend I was the captain of my own fate.”

Freedom Fate Imagine Pretend Captain Taking Charge

Book:The Girl from Everywhere

Source: The Girl from Everywhere

“Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or pretending to be pained by that.”

“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?”

Inspiring Fantasy Curious Richelle Goodrich Richelle Make Believe Pretend

Book:Secrets of a Noble Keykeeper

Source: Secrets of a Noble Keykeeper

“Humility is the greatest shaper of souls and crafter of character, for it wipes away all the grandiose things that we spend so much of our lives pretending to be, so that we can spend all of our lives being the exceptional person that we were actually created to be.”

Soul Character Identity Humility Personality Living Humble Potential Pretending Possibilities Person Exceptional Souls Lives Pretend Grandiose

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The smiles of the unhappiest are often the widest.”

Depression Suicide Smile Impression Unhappiness Suicidal Smiling Pretend Fake Smile Fake Smiles

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Genuine happiness is not nearly as common as a fake smile.”

Happiness Smile Happy Unhappy Unhappiness Pretense Smiling Pretend Fake Smile Genuine Happiness

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“O woman, father says natural is beautiful so why do you redden your cheeks and blacken your eyes? Why do you remove the hair on your legs and draw them into your brows? Why do you hold your breath lest your stomach show and hold your fart lest they know that you’re a human? O woman, father says natural is beautiful so why do you straighten your hair to curl it next and pretend to orgasm so they think you enjoyed the sex? Why do you dumb yourself down and push your breasts up? Why do you smile when you’re told to and love when you don’t want to? When? When will you stop, woman? Father says natural is beautiful but that is doubtful for what does father know he’s only a fellow.”

“Wind and breeze are separated today Crimson twilight denies to fade away Grass blades turn brown to match the soil We pretend to smile at every turmoil”

“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.”

Years Self Age Pain Struggle Quote Smile Trauma Defense Survivor Learn Laugh Pretend Hidden Inner

Author:J.D. Stroube

“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.”

Pain Sadness Honest Emotions Smile Fake Sincere Ink Changes Afraid Hide Pretend Show Reveal Chalk Being True To Yourself Closet Face The Music

Author:Anthony Liccione

“But in the morning I would always rise and polish the surface of myself, a gleaming, confident young woman, an excellent student and good daughter starting her fourth year at the university, moving smoothly through the world, and even though inside the chaos scraped and railed I would push it into the crevices of the day so it could not be detected.”

Madness Chaos Fake Mask Pretend

Book:Perla

Source: Perla

“Home has always been whichever place I do the least pretending”

Home Pretending Pretend

Book:Poems from the Attic

Source: Poems from the Attic

“The shield wall reeks of shit, and all a man wants is to be home, to be anywhere but on this field that prepares for battle, but none of us will turn and run or else we will be despised for ever. We pretend we want to be there, and when the wall at last advances, step by step, and the heart is thumping fast as a bird’s wing beating, the world seems unreal.”

World Heart Home Wall Battle Bird Man Unreal Despised Run Pretend Shit Field Turn Ever Shield Wing Prepares Reeks

Book:The Flame Bearer

Source: The Flame Bearer

“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.”

Home Past Time Change Return Future Changes Things Place Something Pretend Everyone Same Back Slowly Don T Know

Author:Iain Thomas

“Courage?" I gave a very soft laugh. "I find courage is just another of life's illusions. In the end, we all do what we must.”

Life Believe Humor Courage Honest Illusion Behave Need Laugh Amusement End Do Pretend Pretence Must Deprecating

Book:Queen of Fire

Source: Queen of Fire

“A relationship is very likely to initially make us pretend we are someone we are not; a friendship, to eventually make us pretend we are still someone we used to be.”

Reading Growth Relationships Relationship Personality Dating Personal Development Maturity Self Development Pretend

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“It is usually those whose love is fake that have a compulsion to prove their love.”

Love Romance Romantic Dating True Love Valentine S Day Pretend Fake Love Prove Your Love Prove My Love

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“It's easier to fake it. When you fake it for sixteen years, it becomes part of you, something you don't think about.”

Truth Teenagers Pretend Breathing Underwater

Book:Breathing Underwater

Source: Breathing Underwater

“You stand a better chance of bringing pretend to life through the power of belief than you stand any chance of erasing what's real by refusing to believe.”

Believe Real Truth Belief Richelle Goodrich True Richelle E Goodrich Richelle Unreal Pretend Believing

Book:Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year