Pretend Quotes

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

~ Simona Panova

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.

~ Jay Woodman

You’ll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you’re still the one in control.

~ Jodi Picoult

It's like pretending to be Santa and then stabbing someone with a candy cane!

~ Ellery Adams

No one is perfect no matter how hard they pretend they are, so don’t compare yourself to them,” Will says.

~ If I Wake

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.

~ Carolina De Robertis

Living a lie – pretending everything is fine when we are actually discontented – is hard work and, in the long run, even bad for our health. We pay a high price for compromising on this honesty – and neglecting ourselves. Finding our inner passion, our mission in life, and connecting with who we really are, our spiritual being or our higher self – this is the key to success and fulfilment. Our ‘soul’ purpose is our sole purpose in life.

~ Kristiane Backer

A dog might feel as majestic as a lion, might bark as loud as a roar, might have a heart as mighty and brave as a Lion's heart,But at the end of the day, a dog is a dog and a lion is a lion.

~ Charlyn Khater

Don't pretend to comfort me, my friend. I might also pretend to not let you down.

~ Toba Beta

I know what it is to be hungry, and it is very hard when one cannot even pretend it away. -Sara

~ Frances Hodgson Burnett

Human has the ability to believe in something wrong as if it is true.

~ Toba Beta

Smell shit when one's bragging.

~ Toba Beta

You don't have to be invisible to disappear.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

I have always been quite good at falling in love, but I don’t pretend to know anything about literal happily ever afters. 

~ Jennifer Harrison

It was so nice just to live in the moment, to enjoy holding him so closely, to pretend for a little while that they were merely two young people in love and nothing else.

~ Melissa De La Cruz

Deciding denial was the better part of valor, CK pretended nothing was out of the ordinary.

~ Judy Teel

I have a strong urge to lie down and pretend this is not happening—like the old couple in Titanic.

~ Tina Fey

Don’t pretend, Bianca,” he said. “You’re smarter than that, and so am I. I finally figured out what you meant when you left. You said you were like Hester. I get it now. The first time you came to my house, when we wrote that paper, you said Hester was trying to escape. But everything caught up with Hester in the end, didn’t it? Well, something finally caught up with you, but you’re just running away again. Only, he”-Wesley pointed to my bedroom door-“is your escape this time.” He took a step toward me, forcing me to crane my neck even more to see his face. “Admit it, Duffy.”“Admit what?”“That you’re running away from me,” he said. “You realized you’re in love with me and you bailed because it scared the shit out of you.

~ Kody Keplinger

The best way to stay safe is, let them think your insane.

~ Anthony Liccione

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

~ Charles Caleb Colton