Quotes About Pretense

Who comes to the light? "Those who do what is true" (John 3:21)! What does this mean? Truth is supposed to happen; it is not only to be thought or willed, but to be done. Truth arises through action that is the opposite of pretense and darkness, which give rise to evil.

Conversation is not dialogue, it's monologues. No one ever really listens in conversations. It's civility that makes you wait and pretend you give a fuck what the other person is saying.

A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't

a faked suicide attempt (is) dishonesty

It's all make believe, isn't it?

More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor

Sometimes you just have to put on lip gloss and pretend to be psyched.

Even if I'm completely unsure, I'll pretend I know exactly what I'm talking about and make a decision.

Everybody wants to lie to himself, pretending that there's something else besides only the normal life you're living in.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

At lunch, I sit with Charlie, surrounded by people but alone. They are talking to me and around me, but I can't hear them. I pretend to be interested in one of my books, but the words dance on the page, and I tell myself to smile so that no one will see, and I smile and I nod and I do a pretty good job of it.

At lunch, I sit with Charlie, surrounded by people but alone. They are talking to me and around me, but I can't hear them. I pretend to be interested in one of my books, but the words dance on the page, and so I tell my face to smile so that no one will see, and I smile and nod and I do a pretty good job of it, until Charlie says, "Man, what is wrong with you? You are seriously bringing me down.

They are talking to me and around me, but I can't hear them. I pretend to be interested in one of my books, but the words dance on the page.

This is the nature of the club scene, after all: being surprised by the familiar and pretending it's new.

It is not the story I know or the story you tell me that matters; it is what I already know, what I don't want to hear you say. Let it exist this way, concealed; let me always be embarrassed, knowing that you know that I know but pretend not to know.

Anyone looking at her would think she was fine. Because Margot is always fine, even when she's not.

Let's let people think we're a couple.

It's fine," I say in a voice that is the exact opposite of fine.

Hi!" I say cheerfully, as if I weren't just contemplating backing away before he saw me.

I do this to feign confidence, because the more I fake it, the more it's supposed to feel true.

You don't really even have a job, do you?" Ben says one day when I come home early. It's true. I could be one of those people who got fired months ago but still pretends to go to work every day.

Do we throw off the false 'cloak' at a party, or do we merely put on an untruthful yellow dress?

You may have been paired with someone who doesn't know and tries to mask that lack of knowledge with indifference.

There's two kinds of people, kid: the kind who pretend they are, and the kind who pretend they aren't. Take my advice and don't be neither.