Top 100 You Pretend Quotes
#1. What you pretend to be is so complicated that I don't even bother to try to understand it.
Miguel Ruiz
#2. If you pretend to belong, people often think you do.
Ruth Silver
#3. no matter how great you pretend to be, It is not as great as you truly are
Haven Trevino
#4. I've heard if you pretend long enough - or maybe wish hard enough - faking normal becomes real. I'm counting on that. Until then, I'll carry on.
Ann Aguirre
#5. All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you.
Robert Breault
#6. The real self is who you are when you're at home, when you're comfortable, and the false self is what you're pretending - and the reason you pretend is because you want to create a character for the surroundings you're within.
Benjamin Clementine
#7. Busted," she said. "You pretend to be all rough and tough, but on the inside you're a big softie."
"I guarantee you there is nothing soft
Robin Bielman
#8. You should be careful about who you pretend to be, because who you pretend to be - is actually who you are!
Kurt Vonnegut
#9. If I was harsh with you, it was because I cannot bear to see you treat yourself as if you are worth nothing. Whatever part you might act to the contrary, I see you as you really are, my blood brother. Not just better than you pretend to be, but better than most people could hope to be.
Cassandra Clare
#10. I have never fit into this town, this marriage, this skin. I am the child who was picked last to play tag; I am the girl who laughed although she did not get the joke; I am the piecemeal part of you that you pretend doesn't exist, except it is all I am, all the time.
Jodi Picoult
#11. I always think of the character as being me. But me wearing a 'coat', which may be a different way of speaking, moving or regarding other people. To me, acting is pretending, just like kids playing, only you pretend as if it were really, really real.
Fred Melamed
#12. I couldn't tell him that I felt too weak and beat up to climb a mountain: sometimes, all the guts you have is the guts you pretend, because you love someone too much to lose their respect.
Gregory David Roberts
#13. Well what? said Peter. He knew but had learned that if there was one advantage to the male sex it was that your obtuseness would never be underestimated; if you pretend you don't know what the problem is, half the time it just goes away.
Brian McGreevy
#14. If you were married to a dipsomaniac, would you pretend that the mania for alcohol was perfectly harmless?
Henry Miller
#15. Why should I listen to my heart ?
Because you will never again be able to keep it quite . Even if you pretend not to have heard what it tells you .
Paulo Coelho
#16. ...what I want is you panting when I thrust into you, and screaming for more, begging me to fuck you harder. Can you pretend for me?"
~Zane
Tina Folsom
#17. If you pretend he's perfect, it's just going to hurt more when you realize he's not.
Marian Tee
#18. I think you pretend to be cold so no one gets close."
"You're close now," he said against her lips.
"I am." Her breath hitched as her gaze drifted down his chest. "And I like what I feel.
Kristin Miller
#19. You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog.
Douglas Coupland
#20. Take your situation and pretend it is not happening to you. Pretend it is not important, that it doesn't matter. How much easier would it be for you to know what to do? How much more quickly and dispassionately could you size up the scenario and its options? You could write it off, greet it calmly.
Ryan Holiday
#21. I'm a born liar myself and I know how it's done. You stick as close to the truth as you can. You pretend to volunteer a few bits of information, but the facts are all carefully selected for effect.
Sue Grafton
#22. Is this going to be one of those times when you pretend not to have a plan until the last moment? And then turn out to really not have one?- Sir Makin to King Jorg
Mark Lawrence
#23. How long can you pretend to be something before you aren't pretending anymore?
Daniel Abraham
#24. As long as you pretend to be self-sufficient, you short-circuit God's power in your life. You need to admit your inadequacy and say, "God, I can't handle this!"
Rick Warren
#25. The story of my life doesn't exist. Does not exist. There's never any center to it. No path, no line. There are great spaces where you pretend there used to be someone, but it's not true, there was no one.
Marguerite Duras
#26. The truth is not a downer," Abraham said in his lightly accented voice. "The lies that you pretend to accept are the true downer.
Brandon Sanderson
#27. He lifted his head and stared at me with a dark look in his eyes. You taste sweeter than you pretend to be.
B.B. Reid
#28. The other [video game] franchises let you experience the adrenaline and horror of war, or deep fantasy worlds, or pro sports. A Mario game lets you pretend to be a middle-aged chubster hopping onto a turtle shell.
Jeff Ryan
#29. Sometimes, though, you make a pact with yourself. I'll pretend there's nothing wrong if you pretend there's nothing wrong. It's called denial, and it's one of the strongest pacts in the world. Just ask all those people who were still drinking champagne while the Titanic went down.
Neal Shusterman
#30. Other people's tears were more than Adrian could cope with. Did you put an arm round them? Did you pretend not to notice?
Stephen Fry
#31. If you pretend that business is beyond morality, that's the kind of morality you get.
Anita Roddick
#32. It is not only possible to be the person you pretend to be, but there is less effort involved.
Robert Breault
#33. No wonder how much you pretend, but you cannot ever forget the taste of your first kiss and the pain of your first break up.
M.F. Moonzajer
#34. You are what you pretend to be so you better pretend something good.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#35. IF YOU PRETEND THE CHARACTERS CANT SPEAK, AND WRITE A SILENT MOVIE, YOU WILL BE WRITING GREAT DRAMA.
David Mamet
#36. You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
Jackie Kennedy
#37. Because the worst of all worlds is when you pretend like you have an immigration policy, you make coming into the United States without our permission illegal, and then you actually don't enforce it.
Tom Tancredo
#38. Can you hide what you were? Every moment of every day, could you pretend to be something else? Someone else? Could you stand spending every day worried that you were going to hurt someone if you knew there was an alternative?
Kathleen Peacock
#40. Whatever ... you pretend ... if any of you be a prayerless person, or a scoffer, or a lover of evil company (Proverbs 13:20), in a word, if you are not a holy, strict, and self-denying Christian, you cannot be saved. (Hebrews 12:14; Matthew 15:14).
Joseph Alleine
#41. So you were going to rescue the Prince! Why did you pretend to run away? To deceive the Witch?"
"Not likely! I'm a coward. Only way I can do something this frightening is to tell myself I'm not doing it!
Diana Wynne Jones
#42. I'm not going to help you pretend - by arguing with you - that the reality you're talking about is not what it is, that there's still a way to make it work and to save your neck. There isn't.
Ayn Rand
#43. what you pretend to be, is exactly what you will become.
Billy Roper
#44. This is how you lived with a terrible secret. You just did it. You pretend everything was fine. You ingored the deep, cramplike pain in your stomach. You somehow anesthetized yourself so that nothing felt that bad, but nothing felt good either.
Liane Moriarty
#45. Aspire to be the man you pretend to be when you're trying to get laid.
Joe Rogan
#46. What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.
Sharon Creech
#47. Some Will Hate You Pretend They Love You Now Then Behind They Try To Eliminate You
Bob Marley
#48. As a kid, I spent an awful lot of time pretending I was somebody else. I think growing up in the 1980s wasn't very exciting so you kind of create this secret life of an alternate person. You pretend to be whatever you need to be that day, so you live in that dream world.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
#49. If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
Oscar Wilde
#50. If you pretend
everything's fine long enough,
everything eventually becomes fine.
Lisa Kleypas
#52. The more moral you pretend to be, the less moral you are; the less moral you try to be, the more moral you are.
Frederick Lenz
#53. I saw you break down. I know you're not a monster, Tristan. I just don't understand why you pretend to be.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#56. If you want to be an honorable man, then be what you pretend to be.
Shannon L. Alder
#57. If you pretend to have authority, people never question you.
Jennifer Close
#58. God, it's like talking to a cyborg sometimes. You pretend to listen, but really, you've just gone on pause, waiting for me to stop so you can reiterate your original point.
Kelley Armstrong
#59. Remember, you can't make everyone like you. If you pretend to be someone else, you will attract the wrong people. If you choose to be yourself, you'll attract the right people and they will be your people.
Pia Edberg
#60. Parents can learn that parental authority doesn't depend on knowing everything. The more you pretend, the more risk that it'll be traumatic and damaging to the kids and their relationship with you when they find out the truth.
Seymour Papert
#61. Brigid O'Shaughnessy: "I haven't lived a good life. I've been bad, worse than you could know."
Sam Spade "You know, that's good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere
Dashiell Hammett
#62. A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.
Tom Stoppard
#63. The last thought on your mind before you sleep is like a mirror showing you the reflection of who you are! No matter what you pretend to be all-day long, that one last thought is enough to sum up your entire life.
Mehek Bassi
#64. Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.
Al Stewart
#65. You can sometimes get your own feelings across more strongly if you pretend that you're singing it from someone else's angle. But it's always from me. It's just a new way of framing it.
Chris Martin
#66. I've been acting since I was 2 and have always been on camera but doing a video is different because when you're acting, you pretend the camera's not there and you just do the scene and with a music video you're right in the camera so it feels weird sometimes.
Corbin Bleu
#68. 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
#69. Why do you pretend, when you can make it real? We like pretending to be someone else but the truth we just want to be ourselves.
Ann Marie Aguilar
#70. If you pretend to feel a certain way, eventually you do feel that way. That has been a surprisingly pleasant lesson to learn in life.
Helen Humphreys
#71. Most people love you for who you pretend to be.
Jim Morrison
#72. Well, it's like this: if you're forced into having sex with someone you dislike, you make your mind blank - you pretend to be somewhere else, you tend to forget your body, you hate your body. That's what we do here. We are constantly pretending to be somewhere else - we either plan it or dream it.
Azar Nafisi
#73. If you pretend something hard enough, could it become real?
Megan Miranda
#74. Life's much more fun if you pretend it's fiction.
Jamie Delano
#75. As soon as you start doing that - changing things - it seems self-evident to me that you've entered the world of make-believe. If you pretend that it's true, and use your own name, you are misleading people. Fiction is looser and wilder and sometimes in the end more self-revealing, anyway.
Nicholson Baker
#76. What if you're chicken? What if you're more chicken than chicken soup?" Malloy said.
Kit gave him a long, hard look. "Then you pretend you're not. You pretend so hard it comes true.
Tania Unsworth
#77. And you pretend to be stupid, which is completely disingenuous. Big word, but I know you know what it means.
Kim Harrington
#78. When you put on the suits, when you pretend you're honest and you're robbing at a far higher level, these guys deserve to ... well, to be in my novels, and I have special fates reserved for them.
Carl Hiaasen
#79. If you imagine for a moment that I would do that, then I think you pretend that you don't know who I am. Hear it plainly. I am a Christian.
Polycarp
#80. Just because you pretend the universe doesn't have teeth doesn't mean you won't get eaten in the end.
Paul Russell
#81. And someone turns out the lights in the library, as if being in the dark will make them invisible, but the noise reaches into the house, into the room, into their lungs. Someone is being beaten in the street below. What are they going to do? How long can you pretend this is not happening?
Edmund De Waal
#82. Here's what I suggest," he said. "You pretend that rats can think, and I'll promise to pretend that humans can think, too.
Terry Pratchett
#83. If you pretend
that LIFE is
exciting,
it will be.
That's
just how our
hearts
work.
Kay Foley
#84. If there is suffering, then it's best to accept it, because it won't go away just because you pretend it's not there. If there is joy, then it's best to accept that too, even though you're afraid it might end one day.
Paulo Coelho
#85. Sometimes, you can see more than me, but you pretend to know less so that I don't feel intimidated by you. I do the same for you. We do not feel superior when the other is vulnerable; or inferior when we feel helpless. This is what sustains our relationship.
Devdutt Pattanaik
#86. And you pretend it doesn't bother you, When you just want to explode ...
Bob Seger
#87. The author refers to a player's affected nonchalance and comments he is, too young to realize you are what you pretend to be.
Michael Lewis
#88. You pretend to be cold, but you love deeper than anyone I've ever seen. I've never heard of a shifter suppressing their wolf, yet you released her when you needed strength to defend your mom. When you learn to harness your wolf and combine it with your love and loyalty, you're a mate I'd die for.
A.P. Jensen
#89. He bursts into tears, and not some manlike tears either, where you pretend you're brushing something off your face and, incidentally, wipe a tear. Nope. He starts bawling like a kid who spilled his Slushie ...
Alex Flinn
#90. You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind you, you pretend not to hear, and keep going.
Geraldine Brooks
#91. If you pretend to know you aren't going to actually learn.
Louise Penny
#92. For a minute, I could pretend that I meant everything to her, because she was certainly starting to mean everything to me. And if you pretend something long enough, it eventually becomes
real. Right?
S.C. Stephens
#93. Sometimes when you cannot decide what to do, you pretend to be a character in a book, because it is easier to decide what they would do-Cassandra Clare
Cassandra Clare
#94. So I had a choice: I could either not do anything for the rest of my life, or I could suck it up and act like it didn't bother me And you know what? If you pretend long enough that it doesn't bother you, pretty soon it actually doesn't.
Mindy McGinnis
#95. Everything you deny is actually killing you on some level. You see something, you feel something wrong with your body, you pretend it's not happening, it goes on, it grows, it gets worse.
Eve Ensler
#96. If you can pretend to ignore the fact that you've got a right hand, what else can you pretend to ignore? Can you have a negative heart, a hollow soul?
Muriel Barbery
#97. Why did you find me? Why did you date my best friend? Why did you pretend to be my friend?
Stormy Smith
#98. Watching you pretend to hate the nickname is the best part of my day.
Sally Thorne
#99. You'll never know who you are unless you shed who you pretend to be.
Vironika Tugaleva
#100. Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.
Orson Scott Card
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