Best 169 quotes in «pretending quotes» category

There is something more horrible than to live with an unhappy person and that is to live with someone who is pretending to be happy!

There's a great deal of power in pretending.

There's no room for me in your world; It's time I stopped pretending. But nothing hurts me more Than a friendship when it's ending.

There's no use of pretending to be good in front of people who are also doing same to us.. Mutual Deceptions don't lead anywhere !!

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.

Throw off your grief,' doubters imply, 'and we can all go back to pretending death doesn't exist, or at least is comfortably far away.

Today's zealots are mostly those pretending to be anti-religious.

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?

We gotta be willing to let it hurt. You know, all this notion that acting is “yeah it’s pretend” and yes we enjoy it and yeah we can have a good time with it. But if you wanna LAND, you wanna make an impact, you want those FUCKERS TO REMEMBER YOU! Then you have to let it hurt sometimes. You gotta get there because that’s all an audience ever wants. Is for you to open up your chest and show them that you have a fucking heart. That’s all we want. A heart. A human being. Not an affectation.

Well enough,” I reply. “Remember, you’re drunk. And happy. You’re supposed to be lusting over your escort. Try smiling a little more.” Day plasters a giant artificial smile on his face. As charming as ever. “Aw, come on, sweetheart. I thought I was doing a pretty good job. I got my arm around the prettiest escort on this block—how could I not be lusting over you? Don’t I look like I’m lusting? This is me, lusting.” His lashes flutter at me. He looks so ridiculous that I can’t help laughing. Another passerby glances at me. “Much better.

We ought to punish pitilessly that shameful pretence of friendly intercourse. I like a man to be a man, and to show on all occasions the bottom of his heart in his discourse. Let that be the thing to speak, and never let our feelings be beneath vain compliments

We have been pretending for a long time to be limited beings.

We live through the belief of children...Regicide is suicide, citizens. Inscribe that in your hearts. The Great Pretend is a fragile construct.

Well, it would have been 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.

We were strangers under the same roof. We were perfect pretenders in the stage of the world.

Why do you pretend, when you can make it real? We like pretending to be someone else but the truth we just want to be ourselves.

When you do not respond to the needs of others, pretending you do not hear them, other people will also pretend they are deaf in time of your need.

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.

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

What is more important - Pretending to live OR living your life? Forget about what others think about you and your way of living. Live your life the way you like it.

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 but just put on, I could show, or so I thought, that I did not need you. Well, it would have been easier if it were put on.

Worried about fitting in, being part of a group, feeling accepted? People gather in groups of similar interests, but these interests are usually based on external preferences and attires. “We think that if other people like this sport or activity, they’ll accept us without an interview or further questions, and we need that because we are afraid of standing naked in front of others, of showing whom we really are underneath the fake smiles and bland expressions of anger and pain: this nakedness is one of the heart and mind. “It’s within these groups that most people find their ‘soul-mates’ and ‘fall in love’ with the person they’ll never get to know for real. “Little did you know, you have to keep pretending to be someone else, while your partner is exhausted from having to put on a daily show just to please you.

You have to pretend like you know what you’re doing before you know what you’re doing.

You can trust bad liars.

You shattered the remainder of my heart, yet you expect me to be okay with it day after day.

You never pretend when you are all alone with yourself!

You shouldn’t have to pretend to be as excited as I am just to make me happy. If it comes to that, you shouldn’t have to pretend to be anything around me. Friends should be real with each other

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

And they have a display of bananas, which are not bananas but called plantains and are more like a potato pretending to be a banana.

Acting is pretending to be someone else.

A snob is that man or woman who is always pretending to be something better--especially richer or more fashionable--than he is.

Because sometimes when things are going really well, we find the one thing we're pretending we're not looking for.

...but now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not.

All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you.

A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.

Are we just pretending to be unhappy so that we can add drama to our lives, so that we seem more substantial?

But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.

Forgiveness is taking seriously the awfulness of what has happened when you are treated unfairly. Forgiveness is not pretending that things are other than the way they are.

But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.

He actually listened, rather than pretending to listen while waiting a suitable interval before it was his time to talk again.

Good people protect people they love even if that means that pretending that everything is okay.

If it doesn't work horizontally as prose... it probably won't work any better vertically pretending to be poetry.

I don't really believe in pretending to be happy when you're not. Mostly I believe that you should burden your friends with your problems.

If you are ready to wake up, you are going to wake up. If you're not you are going to stay pretending that you are just a poor little me.

If I had died it would have been even better for you political bratchnies, would it not, pretending and treacherous droogs as you are.' But all that came out was er er er.

I hate these actresses-pretending-to-be-lesbians movies. To me, that's just as prurient as a bad violent movie.

If you keep pretending you're in that book, it will make you not want to live in the life you're in.

If no one figures out you are pretending to be retarded, your life will be greeted with treasure.

I like playing heavy metal music and pretending I'm a vampire in front of the mirror.

I keep "leave me alone, I'm busy " pretending to work sign with me because my dad once told me to find a job that you would do for free and I would do this job for free. But I would be a performer for free because that's all I've ever loved to do. I've worked so hard to get to the point where work doesn't feel like work. So when I come to work, I'm actually coming to play - I'm coming to recess. So, when you see me, leave me alone, I'm busy ... pretending to work.