Quotes About Pretense

Excuse me, there's no pretense here. I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow.

He wasn't what he was supposed to be. He was an imposter: a boy who'd chosen this place, and at that moment, to impersonate a man.

money's just an idea, it has power. Only it's not real power. Just the promise of power. But that promise is enough so long as everyone keeps pretending it's real. Stop pretending and it all falls apart.

Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.

I know a lot of people who are depressed, and they walk around, and they're smiling every day, but no one's asking them how they're really doing.

We pretend to be what we are not because we are afraid of being rejected. The fear of being rejected becomes the fear of not being good enough.

We know we are not what we believe we are supposed to be and so we feel false, frustrated, and dishonest. We try to hide ourselves, and we pretend to be what we are not. The result is that we feel unauthentic and wear social masks to keep others from noticing this.

We pretend to be what we are not because we are afraid of being rejected.

Debido a ese miedo a ser castigados y a no recibir la recompensa, empezamos a fingir que éramos lo que no éramos, con el único fin de complacer a los demás, de ser lo bastante buenos para otras personas.

We know we are not what we believe we are supposed to be and so we feel false, frustrated, and dishonest. We try to hide ourselves, and we pretend to be what we are not. The result is that we feel unauthentic and wear social masks to keep others from noticing this. We are so afraid that somebody else will notice that we are not what we pretend to be. We judge others according to our image of perfection as well, and naturally they fall short of our expectations.

If hatred strikes you, if you get accused, thrown to the lions, you can expect one of two reactions from people who know you: some of them will join in the kill, the others will discreetly pretend to know nothing, hear nothing, so you can go right on seeing them and talking to them. That second category, discreet and tactful, those are your friends. 'Friends' in the modern sense of the term. Listen, Jean-Marc, I've known that forever.

It follows, then, that the aesthetic ideal of the categorical agreement with being is a world in which shit is denied and everyone acts as though it did not exist. This aesthetic ideal is called kitsch.

No se trataba más bien de la historia de un hombre que en lo más profundo de su alma ha tomado conciencia de su incapacidad de amar y que por eso mismo empieza a fingir amor ante sí mismo?

Hay situaciones en las que las personas están condenadas a hacer teatro.

the young can't help but acting; they're immature, but they're placed in a mature world and have to act as if they were mature. So they put on whatever masks and disguises appeal to them and can be made to fit -- and thy act.

No se trataba más bien de la histeria de un hombre que en lo más profundo de su alma ha tomado conciencia de su incapacidad de amar y que por eso mismo empieza a fingir amor ante sí mismo?

Avoir un public, penser à un public, c'est vivre dans le mensonge.

Aber war es Liebe? Das Gefühl, an ihrer Seite sterben zu wollen, war ganz offensichtlich unangemessen: er hatte sie damals gerade zum zweiten Mal in seinem Leben gesehen! War es nicht eher die Hysterie eines Menschen, der sich im Grunde seines Herzens seiner Liebesunfähigkeit bewußt war und anfing, sich Liebe vorzuspielen?

It has something malicious about it (things suddenly turning out different from what they pretended to be), but to some extent also a beneficent relief (things are less weighty than they appeared to be, letting us live more freely, no longer oppressing us with their austere seriousness).

We love the things we pretend to laugh at.

Do not make the mistake of believing that he does not love you because he plays at not caring.

Or perhaps this hostility of yours is the pretense. Love does make liars out of your kind.

I want fake love. But that's all I want, and that's why I can't have it.

Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles