Pretending Quotes - Page 13

• We might say that psychoanalysis revealed to us the complex penalties of denying the truth of man's condition, what we might call the costs of pretending not to be mad.

  Ernest Becker

  Men, Mad, Cost

  Ernest Becker (1997). “The Denial of Death”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• I knew when I grew up, I always wanted to be a liar, and if you're in television, you're lying because you're just pretending to be yourself much like I'm doing now.

  John Ritter

  Being Yourself, Liars, Lying

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• We don't need women. There are plenty other things in the world to have sex with, just go to a sexaholics meeting and take notes. There's microwaved watermelons. There's the vibrating handles of lawn mowers right at crotch level. There's vacuum cleaners and beanbag chairs. Internet sites. All those old chat room sex hounds pretending to be sixteen-year-old girls. For serious, old FBI guys makes the sexiest cyberbabes.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Girl, Sex, Years

  "Choke". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2001.

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• My breathing was shallow and my hands were fists. 'Oh, yes, I'm going to have to kill you Barrons.' I said coolly, Partly because, for the most miniscule sliver of an instant, while looking at those handcuffs, I'd imagined myself climbing back into bed and pretending I wasn't cured yet.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Climbing, Hands, Breathing

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.709, Dell

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• A kid under a tablecloth insists he’s a ghost. A table underneath a tablecloth is, I guess, like the rest of us, only pretending to be invisible.

  Richard Siken

  Kids, Tables, Ghost

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• It is a mark of the depth of their wounding that they are pretending they suspected it all along. Everything that they have seen and been told about love so far has been an inside perspective, and they are not prepared for the crashing weight of this exclusion. It dawns on them now how much they never saw and how little they were wanted, and with this dawning comes a painful re-imagining of the self as peripheral, uninvited, and utterly minor.

  Eleanor Catton

  Self, Perspective, Dawn

  Eleanor Catton (2009). “The Rehearsal”

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• I'm the one not caring. I'm the one pretending the Earth isn't shattering all around me because I don't want it to be. I don't want to know there was an earthquake in Missouri. I don't want to know the Midwest can die, also, that what's going on isn't just tides and tsunamis. I don't want to have any more to be afraid of. I didn't start this diary for it to be a record of death.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Caring, Earthquakes, Diaries

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2008). “Life As We Knew It”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I want a private life, I truly do. I'm not just pretending to want one like lots of celebrities.

  Donna Summer

  Want, Private Life

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• Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present.

  Paul Fussell

  Past, History, Understanding

  Paul Fussell (1990). “Thank God for the Atom Bomb, and Other Essays”

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• Because of jealousy you are in constant suffering; you become mean to others. And because of jealousy you start becoming phony, because you start pretending. You start pretending things that you don't have, you start pretending things which you CAN'T have, which are not natural to you. You become more and more artificial. Imitating others, competing with others, what else can you do? If somebody has something and you don't have it, and you don't have a natural possibility of having it, the only way is to have some cheap substitute for it.

  Rajneesh

  Jealousy, Mean, Suffering

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• There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

  Liu Shaoqi

  Leadership, Past, Pigs

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• Science is about finding ever better approximations rather than pretending you have already found ultimate truth.
  A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Religion, Doe, Lunatic Asylums

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• Pretending the past doesn't exist is as bad as living in it.

  Nora Roberts

  Past

  Nora Roberts (1995). “Hidden Riches”, p.9, Penguin

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• Authoritarianism is not pretending anymore to be a real alternative to democracy, but we can see many more authoritarian practices and styles basically being smuggled into democratic governments.

  Ivan Krastev

  Real, Government, Practice

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• I'm tired of saying, "How wonderful you are!" to fool men who haven't got one-half the sense I've got, and I'm tired of pretending I don't know anything, so men can tell me things and feel important while they're doing it.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Tired, Men, Important

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.51, Hamilton Books

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• A faith that can only exist in the light of victory and certainty is one which really affirms the self while pretending to affirm Christ, for it only follows Jesus in the belief that Jesus has conquered death. Yet a faith that can look at the horror of the cross and still say ‘yes’ is one that says ‘no’ to the self in saying ‘yes’ to Christ.

  Peter Rollins

  Jesus, Light, Self

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• 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?

  Janne Teller

  Important, Busy

  Janne Teller, Martin Aitken (2012). “Nothing”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm right here. This is who I really am. I'm not pretending.

  Orson Scott Card

  Orson Scott Card (2002). “Ender's Shadow”, p.59, Macmillan

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• The key to mostly anything is pretending your first time isn't.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Keys, Firsts, First Time

  "The Fortress of Solitude". Book by Jonathan Lethem, September 16, 2003.

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• Doubt comes to the door in darkness, pretending to be alone and in need of your compassionate ear. But if you let him in, he'll bring his friends.

  Julia Cameron

  Doors, Darkness, Doubt

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• Women are the more important members of relationships. Women are the survivors, the nurturers and the bosses, despite men pretending it's a male dominated society.

  Ray Martin

  Women, Boss, Important

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• Hypocrisy means deliberately pretending. None of us lives up to his ideals; none of us is all that he would like to be or all that he could be in Christ. But that is not hypocrisy. Falling short of our ideals is not hypocrisy. Pretending we have reached our ideals when we have not - that is hypocrisy.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Fall, Hypocrite, Mean

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• If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak.

  Satish Kumar

  Enlightenment, World, Speak

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• I haven't put on a baseball uniform since about age 12. It's like I'm wearing a Halloween costume. I'm pretending to be a ballplayer.

  Ken Fox

  Baseball, Halloween, Age

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• We cannot get to our knowledge because the world is too loud. And we tend to make it louder as we cry out in pain, pretending we are singing.

  Marianne Williamson

  Pain, Singing, World

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “A Woman's Worth”, p.32, Ballantine Books

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