Pretend I Don't Exist Quotes

#1. While most people in TV, radio, and the press have treated me wonderfully, some of the most important people want to pretend I don't exist.

Harry Browne

#2. Think of people like bottles full of a liquid inside but without labels; smell the bottle, pour out what is inside and study it carefully. Never mind the labels; pretend that they don't exist! Labels are misleading!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#3. We don't know to be sad, the weight of our grandparents' love like a blanket with us beneath it, safe and warm.

Jacqueline Woodson

#4. You might not be able to run a paintbrush over unpleasant memories, but you can certainly cover them with a black cloth and pretend they don't exist.

Amy Matayo

#5. He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.

Stephen Leacock

#6. We don't know what to do with our own pain, so what to do with the pain of others? We don't know what to do with our own weakness except hide it or pretend it doesn't exist. So how can we welcome fully the weakness of another if we haven't welcomed our own weakness?

Jean Vanier

#7. The Moon would shine as brightly as the midmorning sun, and by the end of the two minutes, the lunar regolith would be heated to a glow.

Randall Munroe

#8. For some people, Rose, it's easier to pretend the things that frighten us most don't exist at all.

Jennifer McMahon

#9. Love lies in those unsent drafts in your mailbox. Sometimes you wonder whether things would have been different if you'd clicked 'Send'.

Faraaz Kazi

#10. As a matter of fact, I rather feel
like expressing myself now.

Audrey Hepburn

#11. Whether we make our own money or rely on someone else, many of us would rater pretend our financial matters don't exist. Or we hope they'll just take care of themselves somehow. My ex-husband was like that. He always said, "I bank by prayer. I go to the ATM and pray that money will come out.

Nancy Levin

#12. Just because you don't want to see something doesn't mean that it will go away. Do you think inhumanity doesn't exist if you pretend not to see it? Or maybe get too drunk to understand? We've forgotten the things that make life worthwhile.

Bethany Griffin

#13. Over the past decade, prescribing information has grown more and more complex, more and more dense and more difficult to negotiate.

Andrew Von Eschenbach

#14. I think I started to have thoughts to really want to be serious about my work when I was about twenty-five, and I just kind of started to look into that direction and moved into it.

Maggie Cheung

#15. Kids are not physical creatures, and they're not stupid. They know all about violence and power and raw emotions. What's really scary is when adults pretend that such things don't exist."

(Grossman's review of The Hunger Games in "Time" magazine, Sept. 7, 2009)

Lev Grossman

#16. Josh: "Are you really going to sit there and pretend that I don't exist?"
Shel: "I'm not pretending you don't exist. In fact, I am very aware you are right there. I am pointedly ignoring you.

Ella Frank

#17. Global warming pollution, indeed all pollution, is now described by economists as an "externality." This absurd label means, in essence: we don't to keep track of this stuff so let's pretend it doesn't exist.

Al Gore

#18. When I'm creating a character, it's a little bit like what my theater teachers used to tell me about Stanislavsky, like if you're using sense memory to do a scene - if you have to cry in a scene, you try to remember something in your life that made you cry and you use that in order to get the tears.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#19. 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.

Tiffany Madison

#20. I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don't pretend that if Facebook didn't exist, that this wouldn't even be possible. Of course, it would have.

Mark Zuckerberg

#21. Grief isn't a luxury; it's an appropriate response to loss. You don't just will it away. If you allow it to run its course, it will fade with time, but if you ignore it or pretend it doesn't exist, it only gets worse.

Richard Paul Evans

#22. I don't need to know your history. I don't want to know about your past," he says as he looks at me. "I want to pretend that you exist today just for me, that no one else knows you the way I know you at this moment.

Ava Zavora

#23. Some adults would rather pretend that bad things don't exist than to talk about them.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#24. You don't compete with dollars, but you compete with ideas. Your only real borders are what you can imagine.

Marc Ecko

#25. The rest of us have monsters too, but we must call them by other names, or pretend they don't exist...

Margaret Millar

#26. The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo, the other milk.

Ogden Nash

#27. I have no interest in Israeli citizenship ... Israel does not want me, nor do I want Israel.

Mordechai Vanunu

#28. The idea is quite unfounded that on entering into society we give up any natural rights.

Thomas Jefferson

#29. To pretend angels do not exist because they are invisible is to believe we never sleep because we don't see ourselves sleeping.

Thomas Aquinas

#30. If we go on behaving in the same way, we will crash. If we pretend that those obstacles in our character don't exist, or are something else entirely, we will still crash. But if we acknowledge them and behave in a different way, we will come to a better and safer place.

Sally Brampton

#31. I'm not going to pretend that I know what you've gone through. But after reading those pages, I can assure you that you aren't the only one who was scarred in that fire. Just because he chose not to show you his scars doesn't mean they don't exist.

Colleen Hoover

#32. Lead a meaningful life. We are here for a purpose. To make this world a beautiful place.

Avijeet Das

#33. It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction.

Harry G. Frankfurt

#34. I would rather keep all the levels lower and stick to the sequester, but there are people in leadership who live outside of reality and want to increase things that Republicans like and pretend Democrats don't exist.

Justin Amash

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

Richelle E. Goodrich