Sad But Pretending Happy Quotes

#1. There's no such thing as a normal highschool experience, Thorny. You assume everyone else is happy all he time and living an ideal life. You don't get that other people are pretending too.

Chelsea Sedoti

#2. I've learned to get really good at this - say one thing when I'm thinking about something else, act like I'm listening when I'm not, pretend to be calm and happy when I'm really freaking out. It's one of the skills you perfect as you get older

Lauren Oliver

#3. You were everything, everything that I wanted. We were meant to be, supposed to be, but we lost it. And all of the memories, so close to me, just fade away. All this time you were pretending. So much for my happy ending.

Avril Lavigne

#4. 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

#5. This is me being sad.
Maybe you think I'm being happy in this picture. Really I'm being sad but pretending I'm being happy. I'm doing that because I think people won't like me if I look sad.

Michael Rosen

#6. Because pretending to be happy is almost like being happy. Until you remember that you're only pretending. Then you're sad. Really sad. Because wearing a mask every day of your life is the hardest thing to do. And after a while, you get a little scared because the mask becomes you.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#7. Why?" Owen whispered. "Because it might be true? I'm tired of pretending like my heart isn't bleeding inside my chest because I want to be with you so badly. I don't want to fight it anymore. I want to be happy.

Megan Duke

#8. I spent a long time playing that game," she said. "Pretending there were other versions of this world, where other versions of me got to live, and be happy, even if I didn't, and you know what? It's lonely as hell. Maybe there are other versions, other lives, but this one's ours. It's all we've got.

Victoria Schwab

#9. If people are like, 'Oh, you're an icon,' then whatever. But who thinks of themselves like that? It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall.

Kathleen Hanna

#10. This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.

Eugene McCarthy

#11. Good is whichever side you think you are on, and evil is whichever side you are fighting, or running from.

Adrian Howell

#12. Sometimes you had to pretend, everyone knew that. Pretend to be happy. Pretend to be brave. Pretend to be strong. If you pretended long enough, it eventually came true. Pretending

V.E Schwab

#13. We are here for the evolution of our soul. This evolution happens through the management of both the ups and downs of physical life. Evolution is halted by pretending to be happy all the time

Renae A. Sauter

#14. I don't really believe in pretending to be happy when you're not. Mostly I believe that you should burden your friends with your problems.

Barbara Park

#15. I held my breath and wished for that moment to last as long as it possibly could, because a waking dream is always more fleeting than a sleeping one.

Vikas Swarup

#16. Life is like a nice fresh batch of Swiss cheese. Note to self: savor the holes, too, like the spaces between musical notes.

Anne Lamott

#17. Even galaxy-spanning anarchist utopias of stupefying full-spectrum civilisational power have turf wars within their unacknowledged militaries.

Iain Banks

#18. I've never been happier in my whole life.
I leave it at that. Underneath all that happy, she sure doesn't look happy.

Kathryn Stockett

#19. It is not the wine that makes us drunk, but the one who brings it and fills the glass.

M.F. Moonzajer

#20. This was a new skill she'd acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and even cheerful, while, in her skull, all was chaos.

Dave Eggers

#21. If you want something, get it. If you like someone, show it. If your sad, cry. Happy, smile. no point in hiding things and pretending to be one thing when your really another.

Marilyn Grey

#22. Youth in our Sunday school class can repeat almost verbatim some obscure parable we dramatized last year, and yet they forget the core doctrinal statement we taught last week. Why is this? Why does story stick with us for so long?

Sarah Arthur

#23. I hate crowds of people pretending to be happy on one night of the year, where they get drunk and obnoxious by the end of the night.

Kenny Hickey

#24. Unfortunately, he still hadn't asked for my number, or a date, or my hand in marriage, and my drink was getting low.

Kimberly Novosel

#25. All I do know is that in six hours I could be suffering from acute existence failure.

Alastair Reynolds

#26. Dear today,
i spend all of you pretending i'm okay when i'm not, pretending i'm happy when i'm not, pretending about everything to everyone.

Nina LaCour