Best 169 quotes in «pretending quotes» category

I thought you were supposed to be pretending I don’t exist, not irritating me to death.

It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

It reminds me of how grandmother always had the right costume for me to wear. You wear the right outfit and you feel like the person you're pretending to be.

I've never gone on Facebook and am not sure I understand it. The same goes for Twitter. I have someone sending tweets and pretending to be me, but I don't know why.

It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share of false certainty or dogmatism. I'm really concerned when I see people pretending to know things they clearly cannot know.

I've never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I'm deeply fortunate.

Kill every enemy twice, Wilky said. Better than gettin' shot by a soldier pretending to be dead.

I want a private life, I truly do. I'm not just pretending to want one like lots of celebrities.

Pretending is a virtue. If you cant pretend, you can't be king.

Many of the artists are not pretending to have an objective point of view. They're revealing the subjectivity.

Marlon once said to me about being an actor: Can you imagine going to work every day and pretending to be someone else?

Pretending is a very valuable life skill.

Pretending to be a princess is fun, but it is definitely not a career.

The artist makes his living by pretending, by putting it in a meaningful hole though no such holes exist.

Suicide is kinda dumb to me. If I wanna kill myself I will. It's not hard to die, I could do it like right now. But why is everybody pretending like everything's ok, Everything's not ok. We are more connected than we've ever been, But I feel more alone than I've ever been.

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

The finest thing about a hobby is that you can't do any pretending about it. You either like it or you don't.

There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.

The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.

There is weakness in pretending to know more than you know or in stating less than you know.

Vampires pretending to be humans pretending to be vampires ... How avant-garde!

There's an element of clowning and entertainment to Trump, that makes it surreal and hard to understand to what extent he is pretending to be a fascist or an authoritarian.

The sociopaths - that's the real problem. The whole street demeanor is about pretending to be a sociopath as well so that the real ones can't find you.

To me, mathematics is like playing the violin. Some people can do it - others can't. If you don't have it, then there's no point in pretending.

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

The rhetoric is pretending, constantly pretending that I have been charged with a crime, and never mentioning that I have been already previously cleared, never mentioning that the woman herself says that the police made it up.

The saddest day in the world will be the one when she stops pretending.

Yeah, pretending to ride a horse is actually a lot harder than riding a horse.

Wearing a mask wears you out. Faking it is fatiguing. The most exhausting activity is pretending to be what you know you aren't.

When you're going through a breakup, you should just let yourself feel everything so you can get over it as opposed to pretending everything's okay and dragging it out.

Why had I wasted all my time pretending to be someone I wasn't? I was tired, so very, very tired of standing on my own brakes. I felt...right. I felt free.

We’re multigenerational Squires. (Carl) Which means what? You prance around with tinfoil armor and plastic swords pretending to be knights? (Nick)

What are we afraid of? We're afraid of the truth. We're pretending that we live in a democracy, and we're pretending we're free. The insanity is that we live inside of the false stories that we tell each other.

You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now.

You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there.

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

Above the keyhole the door has a latch. It is pretending to be an authentic old latch. The door is pretending to be an authentic old door. Maybe everything there is isn't authentic any more. Maybe everything there is is a kind of pretending.

Absolutely. No more pretending!

After writing the letter Sybil lost almost two days. "Coming to," she stumbled across what she had written just before she had dissociated and wrote to Dr. Wilbur as follows: It's just so hard to have to feel, believe, and admit that I do not have conscious control over my selves. It is so much more threatening to have something out of hand than to believe that at any moment I can stop (I started to say "This foolishness") any time I need to. When I wrote the previous letter, I had made up my mind I would show you how I could be very composed and cool and not need to ask you to listen to me nor to explain anything to me nor need any help. By telling you that all this about the multiple personalities was not really true I could show, or so I thought, that I did not need you. Well, it would be easier if it were put on. But the only ruse of which I'm guilty is to have pretended for so long before coming to you that nothing was wrong. Pretending that the personalities did not exist has now caused me to lose about two days.

. . . all the little bistros and cafes and shops I'd frequented when I was out there, pretending to live a life.

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...

A young woman forced to keep drunks supplied with beer and siblings with clean underwear—instead of being allowed to pursue something higher —stores up great reserves of vitality, a vitality never dreamed of by university students yawning over their books. (...) The difference between the university graduate and the autodidact lies not so much in the extent of knowledge as in the extent of vitality and self-confidence. The elan with which Tereza flung herself into her new Prague existence was both frenzied and precarious. She seemed to be expecting someone to come up to her any day and say, What are you doing here? Go back where you belong!

All she'd found was that women spent a great deal of time saying they were please when they were not, similing when they were not happy, and pretending their anger and frustation did not exist

An educated theologian: someone who's better at rationalizing what they're pretending to know.

Be who you are, don’t be a pretender, if you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember.

But I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell. Of course, you pretend to be the author. You have to. You think, I now choose to go to lunch, when that monotone beep rings from on high at 12:37. But really, the bell decides. You think you're the painter, but you're the canvas.

But there is nothing more beautiful than being desperate. And there is nothing more risky than pretending not to care.

But that’s only because we have to be that way in order to get on with our lives. Just because people are playing doesn’t mean their hearts aren’t in it.

dear today, i spend all of you pretending i'm okay when i'm not, pretending i'm happy when i'm not, pretending about everything to everyone.