Best Pretend Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 2

“Paranoia. The more you think of an imaginary problem, the more you feel as though it’s real –”

Source: Nightmarish Sacrifice

“A deep breath is a technique with which we minimize the number of instances where we say what we do not mean … or what we really think.”

“Sometimes we have to pretend that we don’t care in order to protect ourselves from the fact that we do. And the thing that we have to pretend the most is that this actually works.”

Care Pain Fantasy Protect Caring Denial Justification Pretend Rationalization Self Protection

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I love you too much to let you pretend that you’re something you’re not. And while there might be a lot of pretending going on in your head, there’s no pretending going on in my heart.”

Love Heart Identity Deception Pretending Pretend Best Self Identity Crisis Woke Culture

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We laugh in crowds, then cry alone, Scroll through joy while clutching stones.”

Pain Healing Pretend Sarrow

Book:From July to May

Source: From July to May

“Everybody is equally weak on the inside, just that some present their ruins as new castles and become kings –”

Source: Nightmarish Sacrifice

“I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually cost me something. And what pretending or this sort gives me is the gift of a pretend life.”

“He’d have denied it to his dying breath but Derwent wasn’t as tough as he pretended to be. For the very small number of people he cared about, Derwent would give his all. It made him vulnerable, and every now and then that vulnerability showed.”

Crime Caring Vulnerable Thriller Pretend

Author:Jane Casey

“Truthfully, she hated when people did this to her. Which, for a while, they did all the time, pretend they could reverse the darkness by spreading their pretend sunshine all over you. It is a basic human reflex, that came from the most basic part of the brain. Not the Neocortex or the limbic part, and was an expression of fear not empathy. You cannot take it personally, they want to say the right thing but knew there was no such thing and that sometimes, most times, it was better not to try.”

Grief Empathy Pretend Human Reflex Reverse Darkness

Book:Summer Hours at the Robbers Library

Source: Summer Hours at the Robbers Library

“Heroes are hero no matter if everybody is watching them or nobody watching them.”

Inspirational Humans Philosophy Wisdom Inspiration Motivational Inspirational Quotes Motivation Motivational Quotes Hero Wisdom Quotes Human Pretending Heroes Heroism Pretend Pretence Show Off

Author:Amit Kalantri

“Emotions don’t interfere in my acting, nor in my life.”

Source: Nightmarish Sacrifice

“Even the world’s greatest actor cannot fake an erection.”

“Some disabled people spend a significant amount of their energy on trying to come across as abled or as not that disabled.”

“Some people wish they were as happy as or happy like some people think they are.”

“To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.”

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Whenever someone 'pretends' as perfect, never made a mistake, error, sin in his life, I know that he has never been in the field...”

Sin Mistake Pretend Error

Book:The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership

Source: The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership

“Who we are usually depends on who is—or who we think is—looking at us.”

Character Actors Acting Personality Impression Pretending Sanity Bipolar Pretend Actor

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Be careful some people being good is not who they are . it comes with their job description. When they are off duty .They will show you flames.”

Philosophy Character Success Quotes Good Human Behavior Bad Person Pretend

Author:De philosopher DJ Kyos

“Being a good person is not nearly as honourable as being yourself.”

Character Being Yourself Conformity Be Yourself Pretending Nonconformity Pretend Please Others Be Someone You Are Not Not Be Yourself

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Was she acting entirely consciously? No: women are always sincere, even in the midst of their most shocking duplicities, because it is always some natural emotion which dominates them. Perhaps, having given this young man such a hold on her, by having openly demonstrated her affection for him, Delphine was merely responding to a sense of personal dignity, which led her either to revoke any concessions she might have made or, at least, to enjoy suspending them. Even at the very moment when passion seizes her, it is perfectly natural for a Parisian woman to delay her final fall, as a way of testing the heart of the man into whose hands she is about to deliver herself and her future!”

Love Heart Passion Future Dignity Sincerity Pretend Test Duplicities

Book:Père Goriot

Source: Père Goriot

“Because people who can’t be bothered with manners pretend to be amused by them.”

Manners Amused Pretend

Book:Ninth House

Source: Ninth House

“I don’t pretend to know exactly why I’m here, other than I’m not here to pretend that there’s not a really good reason for why I’m here.”

Life Reason Purpose Destiny Calling Meaning Pretend Ignore

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“how sad that we pretend we are happy”

Sad Happy Pretend Best Quote

Author:Nitya Prakash

“I can pretend it’s all pretend! I can be the life of your death and you can be the death of my life… what a trade-off!”

Life Death Sad Trade Vow Pretend Trade Off

Book:Bittersweet Symphony

Source: Bittersweet Symphony

“Human beings are, necessarily, actors who cannot become something before they have first pretended to be it; and they can be divided, not into the hypocritical and the sincere, but into the sane who know they are acting and the mad who do not.”

Acting Psychology Self Discovery Authenticity Maturity Hypocrisy Sociology Pretend Impressions

Author:W.H Auden

“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.”

Inspiration Fiction Husband Autonomy Pretense Pretend Widow Invent Fictional

Book:The Accidental Mistress

Source: The Accidental Mistress

“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.”

Love Pain Hope Imagination Pretend Ignore

Book:The Bitter Kingdom

Source: The Bitter Kingdom

“For a sane person to sincerely be happy that someone has succeeded, they have to either be profiting or likely to profit from that person’s success, or be that person.”

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

Life Inspiration Action Imagination Attitude Choice Pretend

Book:Mother Night

Source: Mother Night

“I've been a little selfish, I think, telling Leo about Bobby, just because it was a way of helping me to keep his memory fresh. Trouble is, no one lets me talk about him. Frank can't often bear it because he's so steeped in guilt he manages to carry on only by acting as if Bobby never existed. I worry for Frank. Where will it end, all this unresolved grief that has no place to go? His way of coping is to work himself into the ground so that he falls into an exhausted sleep each night, ready to start over again at sunrise.”

Loss Grief Coping Pretend Ignore Exist

Book:Broken Country

Source: Broken Country

“It sucks to be broken and pretend that it's a beautiful version of yourself.”

Beautiful Broke Pretend Version

Author:Nitya Prakash

“You’re beautiful, too. I mean, you’re hot,” I blurted out. “But I always knew you would be.” My eyes widened as I realized what just streamed out of my mouth, and his grin turned into a smile. “Oh my God, I did not just say...any of that out loud.” “You did.” “Ugh.” Tipping his head back, he laughed deeply. And he laughed like he had in those rare instances when something truly amused him. He did so with a freedom I’d envied. I started to place my hands over my flaming face, but he caught my wrists, holding them between us. His eyes were lighter, dancing. “I can pretend you didn’t say that if that makes you feel better,” he suggested. Oh yes, that would be fabulous. I nodded. “I won’t forget it, though.”

Beautiful Forget Pretend Mallory Dodge Rider Stark

Book:The Problem with Forever

Source: The Problem with Forever

“There is one more thing I need. Something that I've needed for days. Weeks. Months. Maybe forever.' The bridge of his nose brushed mine. 'But I know you won't allow it. Not like this.' The pounding in my chest moved lower. 'What... what have you needed for so long?' 'You.' I shuddered. 'So, maybe, just for a few minutes, when no one is looking- when there's no one but us- we can pretend.' Leaning into the cupboard, I felt dizzy, as if I weren't getting enough air into my lungs. 'Pretend?' 'We pretend that there's no yesterday. No tomorrow. It's just us, right now, and I can be Hawke,' he said in the heated space between us. I shook once more. He touched my cheek, sending a bolt of awareness through me. His fingers drifted over my chin, my lower lip. 'You can just be Poppy, and we can simply share a kiss.' 'A kiss?' He nodded. 'Just pretend.' His lips now a whisper against my cheek. 'Just a kiss.”

Want Kiss Jennifer L Armentrout Poppy Poppy Balfour Pretend Wanting A Kingdom Of Flesh And Fire Casteel Casteel Da Neer

Book:A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

Source: A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“Once you drop a mask, you can never wear it again.”

Quotes Actors Acting Mask Cheating Pretending Cheat Lie Act Aphorisms Saying Pretend Actor Reveal Wear Revealed Falsehoods Masking Revealing Truth Behind The Curtain Behind The Smilehe

Book:The New Land

Source: The New Land

“Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days.”

“Will you tell me about the constellations?' I asked him. 'I thought you didn't like me,' he said. 'I can pretend,' I told him. 'For one night.”

Holly Black Constellations The Stolen Heir Suren Wren Oak Oak Greenbriar Pretend

Book:The Stolen Heir

Source: The Stolen Heir

“Children lose interest in their parents when they are left. They are not sentimental. They are passionate and cold. [...] They learn to pretend. And pretense becomes the most active, the realest part, alluring as dreams. It takes place of what we think is real. - pg. 11-12”

Children Dreams Parents And Children Pretend

Book:S. S. Proleterka

Source: S. S. Proleterka

“Disney’s “Doc Mc Stuffins’” Halloween episode “Boo-Hoo To You” explains to young children that Halloween is merely for enjoyment, fun, and is all just pretend.”

Children Fear Halloween Pretend Disney Dr Asa Don Brown Boo Hoo To You

Author:Asa Don Brown

“Pretending is the outcome of desperately wanting to achieve something, but forfeiting it to the whimsy of imagination because we lack the faith to believe that we could achieve it. And if we actually started to pretend that we could achieve it, in time maybe we wouldn’t have to pretend anymore.”

Belief Self Esteem Determination Self Confidence Potential Possibilities Confident Pretend

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Im gonna be a pretender the rest of my life. Pretending i dont wish every girl i kiss isnt you. Pretending i dont wish every girl i sleep with isnt you. Im gonna have to pretend i dont wish my next relationship wont be with you. Pretend that i dont wish the girl i get engaged to isnt you. Pretend i dont wish the girl i marry isnt you. Pretend i dont wish the mother of my kids to be you. Pretend its not you i want to spend the rest of my life with. Everything will be a lie the rest of my life. Thats so hard to accept.”

Love Relationships Sadness Lost Love Pretend I Miss You

Author:Michael A. Perez

“I frequently prefer to ‘pretend’ to live for that allows me to completely avoid the cost I am certain to incur in actually living. However, it also robs me of the rewards. With that being the case, I might be wise to ask where the real cost actually lays?”

Life Choices Wise Cost Personal Growth Fake Live Pretend

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Running’ is driven by panic. ‘Destination’ is driven by thought. And while it’s terribly painful to admit, incessantly pretending that I do the latter doesn’t replace the fact that I’m constantly doing the former.”

“I don't want to swim on the surface anymore and I never want to pretend again that I know you completely. Let me dive deep inside you, take me in and allow me to look into your secrets, make me feel every breath I take and crave for it more. Carry me to your darker side where you are afraid to allow anyone. Pull me deep inside and make me one of your secrets.”

Fear Dark Surface Swim Deep Secrets Dark Side Never Afraid Breath Pretend Inside Complete Allow

Author:Akshay Vasu

“Do we ignore the needy to spite the greedy? Or share and defend despite those who pretend?”

Poor Share Charity Helping Others Richelle Goodrich Spite Richelle E Goodrich Help Richelle Greedy Sharing Needy Helping Hand Pretend Falsification

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

“Flag up your courage high and your fears will salute it in humility. Your fears are like walls without foundations; they are afraid to go down and hence pretend to be strong! Exercise Courage!”

Source: Daily Drive 365

“Sometimes I think people only pretend to like eachother”

Society Pretend

Book:Solitaire

Source: Solitaire

“Don't be afraid. You are never really alone. Just be yourself. You don't ever have to pretend you are someone else. If you try to do that, then you don't have anything to give the world. Accept and give your gifts with love.”

Love Alone Gifts Give Afraid Accept Pretend

Author:Jay Woodman

“I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually cost me something. And what pretending of this sort gives me is the gift of a pretend life.”

“I can be anything – and nothing, and everything at the same time. It all depends on the role I am in.”

Sacrifice Nightmare Pretending Nothing Everything Pretend Anything Role Cardew Nightmarish

Book:Nightmarish Sacrifice

Source: Nightmarish Sacrifice

“I lie more convincingly than I tell the truth.”

Truth Romance Lying Sacrifice Young Adult Nightmare Pretending Lie Convincing Gothic Pretend Tell Nightmarish

Book:Nightmarish Sacrifice

Source: Nightmarish Sacrifice