We cannot pretend that reality is different from what it is.

And for a price, I will pretend absolutely nothing.

Reality is a background so painted over by our own perceptions that every eye sees the world differently.

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

I think it’s counterproductive in many ways to pretend to know things you don’t. You surround yourself with people who are the real experts.

Smell shit when one’s bragging.

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...

The steady soul and the ego pretender / walk with their arms round each other’s shoulders / through the mirage.

They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.

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

We live through the belief of children…Regicide is suicide, citizens. Inscribe that in your hearts. The Great Pretend is a fragile construct.

Betrayal is too kind a word to describe a situation in which a father says he loves his daughter but claims he must teach her about the horrors of the world in order to make...

Chameleonesque, hobbitish, unicorned, stompled, selfishism, and unwakeable may not be real words, but you do know what they mean.

I am who I pretend to be, and right now I’m pretending to be my own clone.

And that was the greatest heartbreak of all- no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect we pretend they are, they are bound to disappoint. As it turns out,...

You cannot be in pretend for people to like you.

In Russia, I pretend to be a lot of princesses and wait for prince. That was my dream.

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...

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

In so far as I have any beliefs, I suppose I’m like that old Peggy Lee song, ‘Is That All There Is?’ I want to believe there’s something else going on, but what that something...

The best way to not get your heart broken, is pretending you don’t have one.

I am who I am. I can’t pretend to be somebody who makes $25,000 a year.

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.

I am not who I pretend to be, even when I act like myself.

In this world we are all pretenders, and Society is our game

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.

Let’s pretend for just one moment that could actually happen. You close your eyes and I’ll close mine and let’s dream the same dream across the Atlantic, lighting up the darkness between us. Can you...

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....

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.

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...

Kuamini (mbali na imani, ambayo ni nia ya kujua kisichoweza kujulikana) ni kwa ajili ya vitu usivyoweza kuvielezea. Unaamini kwamba siku moja dawa ya UKIMWI au saratani itapatikana mahali fulani, ilhali huwezi kufanya majaribio ya...

who did I think we were.who did I thinkI could make you.this is the oldest mistake,to confuse wantingwith magic. silence is the undoingof every spell, and we are expertsin the unsaid. even now, I forgetto...

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

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

Im gonna be a pretender the rest of my life. Pretending i dont wish every girl i kiss isnt you. Pretending i dont wish every girl i sleep with isnt you. Im gonna have to...

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.

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

It’s always comforting to tell yourself things are going to be alright, because even if a part of you senses that you’re lying, it’s comforting to shut it out- shut out reality and pretend- because...

I can’t pretend to be objective when it comes to service or sacrifice.

Mandy would much rather have imaginary friends who were real than real friends who were imaginary.

I don’t pretend to be an ordinary housewife.

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...

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

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...

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

Humanity is the word we use when we kill in the name of society.Humanity is the word we use to make them believe we can feel.Humanity is the word we use to cover up our...

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

I don’t pretend I know everything.

Imagine fantasy and pretend as neither fantastical nor pretended…..and then believe it.

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...