Pretending Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• In Kafka we have the modern mind, seemingly self-sufficient, intelligent, skeptical, ironical, splendidly trained for the great game of pretending that the world it comprehends in sterilized sobriety is the only and ultimate real one – yet a mind living in sin with the soul of Abraham. Thus he knows Two things at once, and both with equal assurance: that there is no God, and that there must be God.

  Erich Heller

  Real, Intelligent, Self

  Erich Heller (1975). “Franz Kafka”, Viking Pr

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• I don't do so well with people pretending to be happy. When I was 16, I went with my girlfriend at the time and her family to Disneyland and I was so grumpy the whole time.

  Jamie Campbell Bower

  Girlfriend, People, Grumpy

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• Sometimes I suspect that we build our traps ourselves, then we back into them, pretending amazement the while.

  Neil Gaiman

  Cages, Way, Sometimes

  "The Wake (The Sandman, Book 10)". Book sub-series by Neil Gaiman, August 1995 – March 1996.

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• I'm an enormously talented man, and there's no use pretending that I'm not.

  Noel Coward

  Men, Use

  "BWW Reviews: Stylish PRIVATE LIVES Amuses at Wayside Theatre" by Jeffrey Walker, www.broadwayworld.com. July 30, 2012.

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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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• Think of it! We could have gone on longing for one another and pretending not to notice forever. This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Thinking, Forever, Gone

  Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.219, A&C Black

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• The saddest day in the world will be the one when she stops pretending.

  Jodi Picoult

  World, Saddest

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• I have always been afraid... Always been pretending to follow you closely, alwyas been pretending to sharpen my teeth, when the truth is, I am ... scared to death just treading on your shadow.

  Tite Kubo

  Anime, Shadow, Teeth

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• It was the perfect moment to tell her. This is my last year. But I couldn’t say it. Not yet. I wanted another minute, another hour, another night of pretending this wasn’t the end.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Night, Years, Perfect

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.120, Scholastic Inc.

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• The strain of constant adaptation to so many fearful events and discoveries is already too much to bear with sanity; one has to keep pretending to slip successfully into the new mould; a time will come when the tailored and camouflaged mind breaks beneath the burden; the stick insect in our brains no longer cares to resemble a twig on the same habitual human tree in the mere hope that it may survive extinction.

  Janet Frame

  Discovery, Tree, Brain

  Janet Frame (2010). “Towards Another Summer”, p.105, Counterpoint Press

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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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• 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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• If we accept and internalize the fact of our own mortality, then, by definition, we have to deal with the essential questions of how we live and spend our allotted time. We have to stop procrastinating, pretending that we have forever to do what we want to do and be what we long to be.

  Surya Das

  Procrastination, Long, Forever

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• Hiding your hurt only intensifies it. Problems grow in the dark and only become bigger and bigger, but when exposed to the light of truth, they shrink. You are only as sick as your secrets. So take off your mask, stop pretending you're perfect and walk into freedom.

  Rick Warren

  Life, Hurt, Dark

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• In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.

  Northrop Frye

  Art, Law, Elements

  Northrop Frye, Germaine Warkentin (2006). “Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962”, p.215, University of Toronto Press

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• You're all Buddhas, pretending not to be. You're all the Christ, pretending not to be. You're all Atman, pretending not to be. You're all love, pretending not to be. You're all one, pretending not to be. You're all Gurus, pretending not to be. You're all God, pretending not to be. When you're ready to stop pretending, then you're ready to just be the real you. That's your home.

  Marcus Thomas

  Real, Home, Atman

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• One of the benefits of being you is: You know that the people who love you, love you for you. They don't love you for who they think you are or who you're pretending to be.

  Jenna Marbles

  Being Yourself, Love You, Thinking

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• My path to wisdom began when I stopped pretending to know things I didn't know. When I explicitly admitted to the limits of my knowledge, stopped building on ambiguity and ignorance, and instead realized that I knew nothing, not even the things I thought I knew.

  Tucker Max

  Ignorance, Limits, Path

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• I was like, `Oh, my God! Ashlee Simpson`s here!` ... I was freaking out, pretending like I didn`t see her. Then Ashlee Simpson walked right up to me and was like, `L.C., love your show! I watch it every week with my friends!

  Lauren Conrad

  Love You, Watches, Week

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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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