Pretend Quotes
To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.
Some disabled people spend a significant amount of their energy on trying to come across as abled or as not that disabled.
Some people wish they were as happy as or happy like some people think they are.
God’s eyes readily see beyond our actions, for our actions are simply fear and selfishness pretending to be us.
Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves … and other animals.
Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.
Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or pretending to be pained by that.
Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days.
For a sane person to sincerely be happy that someone has succeeded, they have to either be profiting or likely to profit from that person’s success, or be that person.
It's easier to fake it. When you fake it for sixteen years, it becomes part of you, something you don't think about.
If I behave as though this is a completely normal situation, then maybe it will be ...
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
I think sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves we’re imagining it. Because it is the most painful kind of hope there is.
Everybody is equally weak on the inside, just that some present their ruins as new castles and become kings –
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.
Chameleonesque, hobbitish, unicorned, stompled, selfishism, and unwakeable may not be real words, but you do know what they mean.
You stand a better chance of bringing pretend to life through the power of belief than you stand any chance of erasing what's real by refusing to believe.
Everyone is watching you. If you don’t believe it, just pretend to fail and you’ll see many mockers. For this reason, work hard as if you are doing everyone’s business!
We live in a world full of people who are satisfied with pretending to be someone they are not.
I always am in a role, lovely – for you, for them – even for myself. Yeah... Even when I’m alone, I am still in a role – and I myself am the most exacting audience I have ever had.
Don't you agree that if I act like there is nothing going on, other people will behave that way too?
Never trust someone that claims they care nothing of what society thinks of them. Instead of conquering obstacles, they simply pretend they don't exist.
I guess it's better to have a chalk smile, than an ink smile. Where chalk changes with the direction of wind, ink stays as a deep stain. Like rain, sun and hail against a fake plant.
To give herself a measure of credible autonomy, she had decided to invent a husband. Then, in a subsequent flash of inspiration, she had just as quickly killed him off.
When we try to find the good in ourselves and others, we pull those good traits up out of hiding and keep them alive, verses pulling out our bad qualities.
Reality is a background so painted over by our own perceptions that every eye sees the world differently.
Courage?" I gave a very soft laugh. "I find courage is just another of life's illusions. In the end, we all do what we must.
Wind and breeze are separated todayCrimson twilight denies to fade away Grass blades turn brown to match the soilWe pretend to smile at every turmoil
Imagine fantasy and pretend as neither fantastical nor pretended.....and then believe it.
Being called ‘love’ or ‘my love’ by someone doesn’t necessarily mean that you are loved or even liked by them.