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...

Everyone changes so slowly, they don’t even know that they have. And everyone likes to pretend that things are just the same yet they look at you like you could bring something back that’s supposed...

Don’t you agree that if I act like there is nothing going on, other people will behave that way too?

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...

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

Let’s not pretend that abortion isn’t about the mass slaughter of innocents.

We live in a world full of people who are satisfied with pretending to be someone they are not.

Mind may make business relationship; Heart does make personal relationship; Beautiful soul only makes sustainable and happy relationship. The choice is all ours.

Over the years, I learned to smile or laugh when I was supposed to. I kept my true self hidden; I did not need to unleash my pain on the world around me. Instead, I...

We have a good arrangement. Roman lies to me and I pretend to believe him.

I don’t want to pretend like I’m some intellectual person who understands Flannery O’Connor.

I don’t pretend to know everything; I just only speak on matters I know I’ll win.

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.

I lie more convincingly than I tell the truth.

I pretend he doesn’t exist, and he does the same with me.

On top of the abuse and neglect, denial heaps more hurt upon the child by requiring the child to alienate herself from reality and her own experience. In troubled families, abuse and neglect are permitted;...

If I behave as though this is a completely normal situation, then maybe it will be …

Not necessarily reputation, rank, societal position or status,but the happiness and enjoyment that a person pretends or fakes to derive with his possessed money or wealth or both make largely others jealous and envious of...

He’d have denied it to his dying breath but Derwent wasn’t as tough as he pretended to be. For the very small number of people he cared about, Derwent would give his all. It made...

There are things that make no sense,that seem unreal,that can’t be grasped or understoodor explained,that maybe don’t even exist…And still, somehow, those wonderful things touch and change our lives.Isn’t it strange?

I found that when it hurt, sometimes the most effective response was to feel the pain rather than wish it away or pretend it was not there.

I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace is a permit for destruction: The unyielding optimist will pretend that the forest...

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.

His character would be blamed, loathed, discussed, and adored – but somewhere there, behind his mask of a hero, Cardew would remain faceless.Anonymous.

Be not who you’re not

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.