Top 81 Love Pretending Quotes
#1. In me all affections take place on the surface, but sincerely. I've always been an actor, and in earnest. Whenever I've loved, I've pretended to love, pretending it even to myself.
Fernando Pessoa
#2. I love acting. I love play-acting. I love pretending. I love telling stories so whether they be comedic or serious or whatever, it doesn't really matter to me. I enjoy telling a good story. I have it all in me.
Jim Carrey
#3. I love pretending to be other people. The more unlike me they are the better - I find other people endlessly fascinating and myself incredibly boring.
Jacki Weaver
#4. I love anything that kind of removes me from myself and employs something else. So, I love accents and I love pretending.
Jamie Bell
#5. Happiness isn't about pretending there's no pain. It's about accepting the pain as a part of healing and doing your best to nurse your own wounds with love and patience.
Vironika Tugaleva
#6. Love?" Heeb asked, playfully pretending not to know the concept.
"Yeah. The real thing. The conviction that if you had this one woman, all other women would become irrelevant. You'd never again be unhappy. And you'd give up anything to have her and keep her." *Evan*
Zack Love
#7. We live in a world full of people who are satisfied with pretending to be someone they are not.
Tommy Tran
#8. I love you," she whispered.
He stroked his hand down her back. "Yep, you do."
"You're supposed to say it back," she said, pretending to be offended because the silliness kept the fear/hope at bay.
"Why?" He scowled down at her. "You know you're my heartbeat.
Nalini Singh
#9. It's better to risk being disliked for living your truth than to be loved for what you are pretending to be.
Dawn Gluskin
#10. 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.
Ashley Greene
#11. I've always tried to resemble a brave man.
It didn't used to be so hard - and I've had so much practice pretending. After all, when you're a thief, you're always pretending not to be. The same is true when you're poor. And sometimes also when you're in love.
Heidi Heilig
#12. It's always hard to remember love - years pass and you say to yourself, Was I really in love, or was I just kidding myself? Was I really in love, or was I just pretending he was the man of my dreams? Was I really in love, or was I just desperate?
Nora Ephron
#13. The reason I'm keeping her secret for her, pretending that I don't know she's a girl is because I don't want to lose her. And that's exactly why I can't let her know that I know.
Hisaya Nakajo
#14. Live without pretending, Love without depending, Listen without defending, Speak without offending.
Drake
#15. Good people protect people they love even if that means that pretending that everything is okay.
Ron McLarty
#16. How can anyone take yes for an answer?" he countered. "Yes is just pretending, just positive thinking. The facts, the basic and ultimate facts, are always no. Spirit? No! Love? No! Sense, meaning, achievement? No!
Aldous Huxley
#17. Because it's simple, I love you, and I don't want to keep pretending like I don't. -Rose to Dimitri
Richelle Mead
#18. But aunties are equivocal figures of affection, wicked and unreliable, pretending love only so long as they are short of love themselves, and then off.
Howard Jacobson
#19. No one makes love like they make a wall or a house. They catch it like a cold. It makes them miserable and then it passes, and pretending otherwise is the road to hell.
Richard Flanagan
#20. Because think how we'll feel in the morning. Think how much worse it will be pretending that we don't mean anything to each other in front of everyone else after we've spent the night together, even if all we do is sleep. It's like having just a little bit of a drug - it only makes you want more.
Cassandra Clare
#21. Whatever. I've never understood what the big deal is about reading." He shuts the door and locks it, turning for the stairs. "Going to another place. Getting lost in time. Pretending that you're living a different life." He heads down the stairs and I follow him. "What's not to love?
Jessica Sorensen
#22. He wanted to stay there forever, letting her soothe him, pretending he was just a kid and his mom could make everything okay.
Suzanne Collins
#23. The most romantic love stories are the ones where nobody ever gets what they want because they are always pretending they don't want it.
Chelsea Martin
#24. Pretending you are not in love with someone only delays the time of you getting over them.
Jasmine V
#25. You're like this ... this goddess pretending to be human ... And I don't know which one I love.
Thomm Quackenbush
#26. Being full of mischief, they love to listen;
they gladly obey, for they like to betray you,
pretending to be sent from Heaven,
and lisping like angels, while they lie.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#27. Why are you pretending to write, when I already know you're just doing that to intimidate me?
Jennifer Echols
#28. She is always pretending she loves me, but look at her now. Am I in her thoughts? Is there a tender look in her eyes? Is she dreaming of me as she walks along the streets?
Sherwood Anderson
#29. You're going to go on dreaming and imagining and making up stories about me as you walk along the street, and pretending that we're riding in a forest, or landing on an island - '
'No. I shall think of you ordering dinner, paying bills, doing the accounts, showing old ladies the relics -
Virginia Woolf
#30. Two birds locked inside a cage, we aren't supposed to last,
And I guess we both could blame it on our past.
But I'm out of excuses if you're done with pretending,
I'm ready to start the story that doesn't have an ending.
Kandi Steiner
#32. You stop pretending life is such fin or makes sense. It's often messy and cruel and dull, and we do the best we can. It's unfair, and jerks seem to win. But you fall in love with a few people.
Anne Lamott
#33. My dearest Miss Farthing, will you do me the unutterable honor of wearing this cheap bit of metal that will most likely turn your finger green, pretending to love and honor me as your husband for the purposes of subterfuge and stratagem?
Lisa Mantchev
#35. Have you killed a man, drowned a crocodile, hunted a wolf, or raped an abuser? Stop pretending you love someone.
M.F. Moonzajer
#36. Now she had to pretend not to love the man she was pretending to love while pretending she wasn't sleeping with him.
Shannon Stacey
#37. There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.
Cassandra Clare
#38. I'll go along with pretending this thing between us is temporary and casual, but every time we're together it feels too right to be temporary or casual.
Simone Elkeles
#39. Maybe this is all love is and all it will ever be
boys fucking girls and pretending it's love, girls getting fucked and pretending they like it, saying "I love you, too," and wanting to throw up.
Amy Reed
#40. I truly missed my parents. I wanted to miss them. It was the only way I could love them, a crazy cocktail of longing and pretending and absence and hope.
Heather Sellers
#41. Love is being honest with yourself at all times
being honest with the other person at all times
telling, listening, respecting the truth
and never pretending
Love is the source of reality
Susan Polis Schutz
#42. The sooner we give up the illusion that a church must be perfect in order to love it, the sooner we quit pretending and start admitting we're all imperfect and need grace. This is the beginning of real community.
Rick Warren
#43. They didn't change; they just got tired of pretending.
Steve Maraboli
#44. 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
#45. So what if you hurt him? He'll hurt you. You'll hurt each other. That's what love is about, right? You can't know what'll happen till you actually try it. Don't try to make excuses like you're protecting him.
Michelle Painchaud
#46. It was hard to live normally when you were constantly pretending you didn't see what was going on in front of your face.
Cassandra Clare
#47. No one can remain married today because they are not married to the one they love, they are married to their sacrifice, and pretending to love is too damned painful. Love and build, love and work, love and fight. Always love first. Anything placed before love will fail.
Sister Souljah
#48. You're the optimist all the way through, pretending to be a pessimist on the inside, because you can act like it hurts less if you say you knew all along it was going to go down like that.
Amy Jo Cousins
#49. One night love affair, pretending we don't care, and now we're left with nothing.
Bryan Adams
#50. Your mother was the love of my life. Not everyone gets to have that. I did. Yes, I miss her, but I'm happier being alone and missing her than pretending not to miss her while being with someone else. Does that ridiculous statement make sense?"
"Yes."
"Good.
Tracy Guzeman
#51. What I love about the theatre is that it's always metaphorical. It's like going back to being a kid again, and we're all pretending in a room. Sometimes, when the pretending really works, I find it much, much more moving than something on film.
Mark Haddon
#52. You're not my words, Emma." I said, standing up and staring at the door while pretending to be gazing deep into her pretty hazel eyes. "But you're my numbers. You're all of my numbers." I paused, listened, and figured she had fallen asleep. "You're my infinity.
Morgan Parker
#53. In all honesty, I didn't love reading when I was a kid. I'd rather be running around in the woods or doing my best to scare the pants off all the children in the neighborhood by pretending my house was haunted or making them play Bloody Mary in the bathroom.
Jennifer McMahon
#54. How can love let it go when it has no place to go? And I can't go along pretending that love isn't here to stay ... Catch me I'm falling for you ...
Toni Gonzaga
#55. There is no pretending I love you and I will love you until you die. And if there is life after that, I will love you then.
Jace Wayland
#56. It was my idea. It's the safest way, but it's strange pretending to be something different. It's like there's a glass wall between us. Like I can't touch him or ... reach him. I don't like the way it feels.
Veronica Rossi
#57. About their wedding on a beach of Nantucket, after nearly 50 years together as a couple: "After years of being who we truly were only in the privacy of our homes or with a few friends, we were out in the world, under the sky, no longer pretending." - Norman Sunshine, co-author, Double Life
Norman Sunshine
#58. Maybe. But you know, when you love someone you love them. And every day you sit back pretending that you don't is one less day you have with him.
Katie Klein
#59. I knew it," she snapped. "You're no different from all men. You're just another jerk pretending to be single! I didn't wanna wrap a lie into a Christmas present anyway.
Maha Erwin
#60. They're a symbol of the whole town, pretending to fight, love, weep and laugh all the time - and they're phonies, all of them. And I head the list ... their phony hearts were dripping with the milk of human kindness.
Ben Hecht
#61. And they can't understand, what hurts more - Missing the other person, or pretending not to.
Khadija Rupa
#62. Sometimes when Sam's pretending to be in love with me, my stomach does funny things."
"Well, get some milk of magnesia and stop it.
Libba Bray
#63. Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were not pretending to love it.
Amy Sedaris
#64. You are a human mind again, pretending to be a human being, interacting with another mind, playing a drama called love.
Eckhart Tolle
#65. One victim lives in tragedy, another victim stops to stare, and still another walks on by pretending not to see
Bob Seger
#66. There's no pretending, I love you and I will love you until the day i die and if there's a life after that I will love you then.
Cassandra Clare
#67. Personally, I think it is better for me to love myself and enjoy being me, than to please someone else by pretending to be someone I'm not.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#68. Hold! I must have lost it," said the young man maliciously, pretending to search for it. "But fortunately the world is a sepulcher; the men, and consequently the women, are but shadows, and love is a sentiment to which you cry, 'Fie! Fie!
Alexandre Dumas
#69. 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
#70. True love can blossom in unexpected places. This is Jaden pretending not to notice.
Katie Klein
#71. With that, I took a deep breath and leapt; spreading my arms, pretending I could fly ...
Chelsie Shakespeare
#72. I think for any actor to say they don't like attention is ridiculous. Of course we love attention. But getting attention is different than pretending the attention means something.
Ellen Pompeo
#73. You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.
George Bernard Shaw
#74. The two of them were stoic and stone-faced and ten feet apart, currently not even looking at each other, but Zuzana had the impression of a pair of magnets pretending not to be magnets. Which, you know, only works until it doesn't.
Laini Taylor
#75. It was love, she thought, pretending to move her canvas, distilled and filtered; love that never attempted to clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets their phrases, was meant to be spread over the world and become part of the human gain.
Virginia Woolf
#77. Don't feel stupid if you don't like what everyone else pretends to love.
Emma Watson
#78. I'm tired of pretending, tired of acting like everything's okay, tired of not being with him ...
Terra Elan McVoy
#79. And I would do it again. I love you, Jace Wayland-Herondale-Lightwood-whatever you want to call yourself. I don't care. I love you and I will always love you, and pretending it could be any other ways is just a waste of time.
Cassandra Clare
#80. Children are very wise
intuitively; they know who loves them most, and who only pretends.
V.C. Andrews
#81. Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
Bill Cosby
