Pretending Quotes

Pretending doesn't require expensive toys.

~ Fred Rogers

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.

~ Julian Barnes

To understand pretending is to conquer all barriers of time and space.

~ William Joyce

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

~ J.m. Richards

Whatever is above will be managed by the powers above you. Don’t live as a man, pretending to be God. Do what you can do; leave what you can’t to God!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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

Kindness is an extraordinary moment and status even if it has to be pretending.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Like a Columbus of the heart, mind and soul I have hurled myself off the shores of my own fears and limiting beliefs to venture far out into the uncharted territories of my inner truth, in search of what it means to be genuine and at peace with who I really am. I have abandoned the masquerade of living up to the expectations of others and explored the new horizons of what it means to be truly and completely me, in all my amazing imperfection and most splendid insecurity.

~ Anthon St. Maarten

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

~ Cody Mclain

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

There is comfort in knowing that you don’t have to pretend anymore, that you are going to do everything within your power to heal.

~ Ellen Bass

I lie more convincingly than I tell the truth.

~ Simona Panova

Absolutely. No more pretending!

~ Dana Burkey

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

~ Raphael Zernoff

Thinking was torment; why not give up thinking, and drift and dream? But the misery of the world, she thought, forces me to think. Or was that a pose? Was she not seeing herself in the becoming attitude of one who points to his bleeding heart? to whom the miseries of the world are misery, when in fact, she thought, I do not love my kind. Again she saw the ruby-splashed pavement, and faces mobbed at the door of a picture palace; apathetic, passive faces; the faces of people drugged by cheap pleasures; who had not even the courage to be themselves, but must dress up, imitate, pretend.

~ Virginia Woolf

She represents something about the corporate world that repel me, some deep coldness masked as relentless cheerfulness.

~ Barbara Ehrenreich

You're like this...this goddess pretending to be human... And I don't know which one I love.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

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

~ Amit Kalantri

You don't have to pretend with me, you know.' He reaches out and tucks a strand of my hair behind my ear. His expression is so open and honest I feel it like a sucker punch. 'I used to pretend, all the time, so I can spot it a mile away. If you're feeling shit, then just say so. I don't need to know the reason, it might be none of my business—' 'I'm feeling shit.

~ Ellie Marney

Don't pretend to be what you're not, instead, pretend to what you want to be, it is not pretence, it is a journey to self realization.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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

~ Vera Nazarian

Well...letting the cat out of the bag is a lot easier than putting it in.

~ Charles Martin

I became good at pretending. I became so good that after a while the lines blurred between my truth and fiction. And sometimes, when I did a really good job of pretending, I even fooled myself.

~ Ruta Sepetys

Mostly, it is lies that will destroy a relationship. Deceit is a barrier to intimacy. André Chevalier

~ Nikki Sex

I am smiling a big adopted-orphan smile as I write this ... I still love scribbling the word - WRITER - any time on a form, questionnaire, document asks for my occupation. Fine, I write personality quizzes, I don't write about the Great Issues of the Day, but I think it's fair to say I am a writer ... ('Adopted-orphan smile', I mean, that's not bad, come on.)

~ Gillian Flynn

Hell, is trying to do what you can't do, trying to be what you're not

~ Anzia Yezierska

So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth.

~ Orson Scott Card

Quit pretending to be humble when you are really just a self-abusing, emotional, drama junkie.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Only those who are brainwashed and foolsbelieve in the existence of a god.Those who are indifferent just pretend.

~ A.j. Beirens

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

~ Criss Jami

pretending to be good might be the same with pretending to be right, its just you are selfish on your own because you think only for yourself..

~ Jinnul Jr.

So many of us hide from ourselves and we don't even know who we are and why were we here? All peoples will prove they are better and put fake masks on their own faces. Every people pretend herself what they actually not from inside. Afraid to show the reality and hide their best quality. You just have to learn to be yourself and what really makes you happy, or other things that are not important and what others think of you is not important at all.

~ Silentknight0

Not that it matters an awful amount in the grand play of things. And it is play. All of it. It's not real. You have to live your life like you're pretending. An actor living a character's life. Otherwise you won't take risks. You won't live.

~ Laura Dockrill

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

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

In a fallacious world where we live, it is much easy to create a God rather than pretending to find one.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

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

~ Simona Panova

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

~ Peter Boghossian