Pretend You Don't Exist Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. Can you deal with the most vital matters by letting events take their course? Can you step back from you own mind and thus understand all things? Giving birth and nourishing, having without possessing, acting with no expectations, leading and not trying to control: this is the supreme virtue.

Laozi

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. Usually pilot season is very busy, and there are lots of auditions and lots of near misses and rejections. This year, I had two auditions, landed this role and it felt like being home again.

Melinda Clarke

#7. Fractures well cured make us more strong.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

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

Jennifer McMahon

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. It was a game, and life was the playing field.

Gloria Steinem

#15. 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

#16. Somehow, she had managed to stitch her heart to his, and if she pulled away, she would rip his heart out when she left.

Stylo Fantome

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. You are an incredible child of God having a dream that you are a human being on a tiny planet in the middle of nowhere.

Drunvalo Melchizedek

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

Margaret Millar

#25. It is like a skull, which still has holes for eyes, but no longer sight.

Victor Hugo

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

Laurie Halse Anderson

#27. 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

#28. 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