Pretending Quotes

There is more freedom confessing our weaknesses and shortcomings than in pretending we have it all together

The finest thing about a hobby is that you can't do any pretending about it. You either like it or you don't.

A magician is only an actor - an actor pretending to be a magician.

Suicide is kinda dumb to me. If I wanna kill myself I will. It's not hard to die, I could do it like right now. But why is everybody pretending like everything's ok, Everything's not ok. We are more connected than we've ever been, But I feel more alone than I've ever been.

Don't go on pretending to be someone you are not

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

You don't get anything worth getting, by pretending to know things you don't know.

Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive.

A monster is a person who has stopped pretending.

Pretending is a very valuable life skill.

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

It's all that pretending to be perfect that breeds inauthenticity in the church.

The world is full of actors pretending to be human

I'm tired of pretending that everything's fine just so I can please everyone else.

You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now.

There are many, and there will be many, who will gladly purchase eternal life for a small price, if they see that others are fighting for God in earnest, rather than pretending to do so.

What is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending... we gotta let ourselves be.

The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.

I thought you were supposed to be pretending I don’t exist, not irritating me to death.

I liked pretending to be other people: I could reinvent myself, reinvent my own reality.

Kill every enemy twice, Wilky said. Better than gettin' shot by a soldier pretending to be dead.

Anybody pretending to be anything other than who you really are-you will never, ever reach your personal potential.

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.

The grace of God sets us free from a life of perfection, performing, and pretending.

I'm not angry, I'm not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I'm more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well.

It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share of false certainty or dogmatism. I'm really concerned when I see people pretending to know things they clearly cannot know.

I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.

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

Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what's really there.

We come to the nations pretending to escape persecution, we the most deadly persecutors in all the wretched annals of man.

I spend my working life pretending to be someone else.

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

Don't throw petals on the floor if they have no meaning. I would rather have a fun, casual relationship than have someone pretending they're completely in love with me.

I'm not pretending to be somebody who's got really limited craft skills. I just am a person who's got really limited craft skills.

What? Are you still pretending you are separate from the Beloved?

Pretending to be 'normal' is a lot harder than you think.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

Pretending is a virtue. If you cant pretend, you can't be king.

Intertwingularity is not generally acknowledged - people keep pretending they can make things deeply hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can't. Everything is deeply intertwingled.

You get paid and you get venerated and worshipped for pretending to be somebody else.

Pretending can be a bold form of experimentation and inventiveness. In pretending joy or happiness, we may discover or enhance our capacity for it.

Donghae always act cute. Not that he's pretending but he is naturally cute.

Vampires pretending to be humans pretending to be vampires ... How avant-garde!

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary

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.

I deserve someone who likes me for who I am pretending to be.

Then how come everyone's making like everything that isn't important is very important, all the while they're so busy pretending what's really important isn't important at all?

The problem of pretending to be alive.

When one has a crisis of faith it means one is struck by the realisation than one has been pretending know things that one doesn't know.