Pretending Quotes

811 quotes by 582 authors

Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own… — Alan Watts
You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don't exist. — Tori Amos
Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what's really there. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
We all pretend for a while or for a lifetime. But pretending is not living...I believe that God meant for life to take our breath… — Angela Thomas
Certainly I've lived my whole life through my imagination. But the world of imagination is there for all of us--a sense of play, of pretending,… — Jim Henson
Don't give to anyone the power to put you down. Haters are losers pretending to be winners. — Paulo Coelho
The whole world is pretending the breakthrough is in technology. The bottleneck is really in art. — Penn Jillette
Be real, because a mask only fools people on the outside. Pretending to be someone you're not takes a toll on the real you, and… — Alex Gaskarth
Like a child standing in a beautiful park with his eyes shut tight, there's no need to imagine trees, flowers, deer, birds, and sky; we… — Bo Lozoff
Being present means being completely aware of all that is. It means youâ€™re not in denial, youâ€™re not pretending, and youâ€™re not avoiding. — Debbie Ford
Intertwingularity is not generally acknowledged - people keep pretending they can make things deeply hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can't. Everything is deeply intertwingled. — Ted Nelson
I'm tired of saying, "How wonderful you are!" to fool men who haven't got one-half the sense I've got, and I'm tired of pretending I… — Margaret Mitchell
The serious person becomes handicapped, he creates barriers. He cannot dance, he cannot sing, he cannot celebrate. The very dimension of celebration disappears from his… — Rajneesh
He watched through a crack inside just pretending to be dead he wanted to fix each pallbearer in his memory . . . it seems… — Yevgeny Yevtushenko
It's really best not to tell people when you feel bad. Growing up is about keeping secrets, and pretending everything is fine. — Caitlin Moran
The world doesnâ€™t need more people playing small. Itâ€™s time to stop hiding out and start stepping out. Itâ€™s time to stop needing and start… — T. Harv Eker
The only way we can guarantee our continued survival on earth is to recognise the importance of other non human life forms and stop pretending… — Rod Coronado
Why had we let it go? Why had we both been condemned...to an exile among dreary strangers who had made us give up all desire… — Ayn Rand
I think that after the first time you give your heart away, you never get it back. The rest of your life is just you… — Tarryn Fisher
The two of them were stoic and stone-faced and ten feet apart, currently not even looking at each other, but Zuzana had the impression of… — Laini Taylor

Who Wrote These Pretending Quotes

582 authors contributed a total of 811 Pretending Quotes, led by these top contributors: