Pretend Quotes

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.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

There was something comforting about believing in things that didn’t exist.

~ A. Lynn

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

~ Simona Panova

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.

~ Nathaniel E. Quimada

The best way to see majesty is to strip away everything that pretends to be majestic so that which is fake wholly collapses in the face of that which is majestic. And God in a manger is likely the most remarkable example we have of such a monumental truth.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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.

~ Courtney Milan

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

~ Cody Mclain

Tonight, can we just pretend you want me to?

~ N'zuri Za Austin

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...

~ Simona Panova

His character would be blamed, loathed, discussed, and adored – but somewhere there, behind his mask of a hero, Cardew would remain faceless.Anonymous.

~ Simona Panova

This girl had been looking on with her hair hanging over her face, only partly hiding a cruel-looking scar; her eyes shone with hatred. Not necessarily hatred of your father or of puppets or the other children, but a hatred of make-believe, which did not heal, but was only useful to the people who didn't need it.

~ Helen Oyeyemi

Some human beings in their craftiness thought they can pretend to be good when they are actually bad.

~ Bamigboye Olurotimi

I lie more convincingly than I tell the truth.

~ Simona Panova

I buried my head under the darkness of the pillow and pretended it was night. I couldn't see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.

~ Sylvia Plath

On the way home Mary Lou said, Some things are so sad you can't say them. But I pretended not to hear.

~ Joyce Carol Oates

when you are doubt with someone on how they feel don't pretend that you know what they were thinking, never assume yourself as you know how they feel when you really not at their shoes at all.

~ Jinnul Jr.

You hide it well, but I can see it, Lord Verniers. You hate us. We have beaten you to obedience but it's still there, like dry tinder waiting for a spark.

~ Anthony Ryan

It's pointless to hate anything. Just trick your conscience by pretending you like something and soon enough you will.

~ Gabriella Jording

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

~ Amit Kalantri

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.

~ Jennifer L. Armentrout

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

~ Anthony Liccione

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.

~ Marcia Sirota

There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.

~ Vera Nazarian

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.

~ Tahereh Mafi

Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.

~ Orson Scott Card

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

~ Assegid Habtewold

I don't pretend to love someone who hurts me.I do something that prevent us hurting each other.

~ Toba Beta

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.

~ Kemi Sogunle

When you're threatened, or something hard hits you, acknowledge it, embrace it. Don't pretend that you didn't get hurt - hurt, cry, think about it. And then you let it go and try something else.

~ Teresa Heinz Kerry

I found that when it hurt, sometimes the most effective response was to feel the pain rather than wish it away or pretend it was not there.

~ Phindiwe Nkosi

The stories we pretend do not exist, are the stories that will haunt us till the end.

~ Srividya Srinivasan

Dress the part! Invent and pretend to your heart’s content! Act, sing, and dance while everyone’s watching! The world’s a stage, remember?

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Do we ignore the needyto spite the greedy?Or share and defenddespite those who pretend?

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

It was like when we were little kids and we played games on the ivy-covered hillside in the backyard. We were warriors and wizards and angels and high elves and that was our reality. If someone said, Isn’t it cute, look at them playing, we would have smiled back, humoring them, but it wasn’t playing. It was transformation. It was our own world. Our own rules.

~ Francesca Lia Block

All the way, Zoe kept her chin up and pretended she wasn’t mortified, but his sour expression stayed with her. She wasn’t good at making American friends. She changed her language, conduct, and clothing, but it didn’t seem to matter. Whether she wore modest Middle-Eastern clothing or cute Western fashions, everyone knew she didn’t belong.

~ Michael Benzehabe

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.

~ Manoj Arora

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.

~ Jane Casey

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.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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.-Akshay Vasu

~ Akshay Vasu

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 allowanyone. Pull me deep inside and make me one of your secrets.

~ Akshay Vasu