Quotes About Pretense

The point is this: if God does not exist, then life is objectively meaningless; but man cannot live consistently and happily knowing that life is meaningless; so in order to be happy he pretends that life has meaning.

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

You can't become normal by pretending you are.

The problem with the false self is that it works. It helps us forget that we are naked. Before long, we are no longer aware of the underlying vulnerability and become comfortable once again.

Eros might be a demi-god, but he was young, flighty, and male, never pretending to be brave, or strong, or the least trustworthy.

Instead, the situation has sparked an efflorescence of social media (Facebook, Youtube, Instagram, Twitter): basically, of forms of electronic media that lend themselves to being produced and consumed while pretending to do something else. I am convinced this is the primary reason for the rise of social media...

Celebrity is the mother of pretension.

Showing emotion was bad. Unless it was fake, then it was okay.

I don't play the tuba. The tuba plays me. My tuba is not actually a tuba, because it has never produced a musical sound. It is actually a giant frog pretending to be a tuba.

He might be quick to smile and adept at handing out compliments, but his smile never reached his eyes.

We all have things we cannot deal with," he said. In the end you just look away and pretend they're not happening." - Johannes Forsell

God cannot bless who you pretend to be

God, it would be good to be a fake somebody rather than a real nobody.

Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.

This job of playing God is a little too big for me. Nevertheless, someone has to do it, so I'll try my best to fake it.

She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.

It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

People always tend to chose what is best for them. They pretend to be unselfish, all so that they can feel good about themselves. Even that really is a selfish decision.

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

If you try to do a look-alike and an impersonation, then that's just not conducive to good drama.

I am far from sure when I am acting and when I am not or, should I more frankly put it, when I am lying and when I am not. For what is acting but lying and what is good acting but convincing lying?

He did a very good impression of a stone column.

We take less pains to be happy, than to appear so.

He tried to smile, but it was just a shape his mouth made.