Quotes About Pretense

Quarrels and acts of violence go hand in hand with the ceremonious abdication of all pride, of which they are the reverse. Noble families disputed fiercely for that same precedence in church by which they courteously pretended to set little store.

Pretend that you're a clever shepherd girl, and you're just dressed up in pretty clothes, and you're trying to make everybody believe that you're a spoiled, empty-headed little princess. So no one guesses that under your clothes you're a brave shepherd girl who climbs trees and chases away wolves with your staff.

Es muy bueno fingiendo ser alguien que no es -le comenté después a Zoya en el vestíbulo, cuando esperábamos para felicitarlo, sin saber muy bien si con esas palabras pretendía o no halagarlo-. No sé cómo lo hace. - Yo sí -repuso ella, sorprendiéndome.

Playing roles and acting are forms of lying. If a person acts like they really feel and it rocks the boat, they are ostracized. We promote pretense and lying as a cultural way of life. Living this way causes an inner split. It teaches us to hide and cover up our toxic shame. This sends us deeper into isolation and loneliness.

Playing roles and acting are forms of lying. If people act like they really feel and it rocks the boat, they are ostracized. We promote pretense and lying as a cultural way of life. Living this way causes an inner split. It teaches us to hide and cover up our toxic shame. This sends us deeper into isolation and loneliness.

These roles not only shame us but they become our refuge of hiding. As we pretend to be real men and women, we can hide the fact that we really don't know who we are. We can mood-alter by playing our role to the hilt. In the mood alteration of being a real man or woman, we can avoid our painful shame.

Because the exposure of self to self lies at the heart of neurotic shame, escape from the self is necessary. The escape from self is accomplished by creating a false self. The false self is always more or less than human. The false self may be a perfectionist or a slob, a family Hero or a family Scapegoat. As the false self is formed, the authentic self goes into hiding. Years later the layers of defense and pretense are so intense that one loses all conscious awareness of who one really is.

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

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

The people in the Farquarsons' living room seemed united in their tacit claim that there had been no past, no war—that there was no danger or trouble in the world.

His persona seemed very odd to me: it was as though he'd once seen an intellectual, and had spent the rest of his life impersonating him.

The hardest part of acting like you don't care, is knowing how much you actually do.

The worst feeling is when someone makes you feel special, then suddenly leaves you hanging, and you have to act like you don't care at all...

Im never waking up again so Ill never have to find out what you did. Each day its harder to pretend that your eyes arent lying as much as your mouth did.

Dont you hate when people make you feel like the happiest person in the world then stop talking to you and you have to pretend you don't care.

This is looking like a contest of who can act like they care less.

How can he act like he cant remember when I cant even pretend I was able to forget?

Seeing you with her kills me, but you will never know because my fake smiles are just as convincing as my real ones.

Somedays you just need to cry for all the days you have to pretend nothing is wrong.

Grownups are so tiresome. They fake their smiles all day long and they try to force us to do the same. It's no fun at all.

'I'm fine' = I wish you knew how I feel inside.

Vengence, betrayal, and love they all are synonyms for the same word: fake.

Beware the FRENEMY; enemy disguised as friend who pretends to look after your interests but really loves it when things turn sour for you.

Fake people are the worst people. They always appear to be happy, when inside they're so jealous & hurting over someone else's life.