186 Quotes About Pretending

Throw off your grief,' doubters imply, 'and we can all go back to pretending death doesn't exist, or at least is comfortably far away.

Running’ is driven by panic. ‘Destination’ is driven by thought. And while it’s terribly painful to admit, incessantly pretending that I do the latter doesn’t replace the fact that I’m constantly doing the former.

Mostly, it is lies that will destroy a relationship. Deceit is a barrier to intimacy. André Chevalier

Quit pretending to be humble when you are really just a self-abusing, emotional, drama junkie.

I’m tired of pretending, tired of acting like everything’s okay, tired of not being with him…

She represents something about the corporate world that repel me, some deep coldness masked as relentless cheerfulness.

It is my belief that, given the necessary physical likeness, it was far easier to pretend to be king of Ruritania than it would have been to personate my next-door neighbor.

who did I think we were.who did I thinkI could make you.this is the oldest mistake,to confuse wantingwith magic. silence is the undoingof every spell, and we are expertsin the unsaid. even now, I forgetto put us in past tense. as ifthe air in this city were the same.as if love is anything like its speaking.

You're like this...this goddess pretending to be human... And I don't know which one I love.