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“If reshaping a life style boils down to pretending and dwindling into a world of make-believe, living may turn into a schizophrenic merry-go-round and the real self might be crunched and munched on, piece by piece. (“He did not know that she knewâ€�)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“You shattered the remainder of my heart, yet you expect me to be okay with it day after day.”
― Ahmed Mostafa

“But I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell.

Of course, you pretend to be the author. You have to. You think, I now choose to go to lunch, when that monotone beep rings from on high at 12:37. But really, the bell decides. You think you're the painter, but you're the canvas.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“I'd worked out that social success is often built on pretending just a little. Popular people sometimes have to laugh at things they don't find very funny, do things they don't particularly want to, with people whose company they don't particularly enjoy”
― Gail Honeyman

“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.”
― Johanna Sinisalo, The Core of the Sun

“How could I explain that it was not all playacting? That I felt more of the male spirit within me than the female - a fierceness that whittled me down to a sharpened spear of ambition. And as a boy, I was applauded, not punished, for such raw energy. It was not beaten out of me for my own good, or worn away by women's chores.”
― Alison Goodman, Eon: Dragoneye Reborn

“Above the keyhole the door has a latch. It is pretending to be an authentic old latch. The door is pretending to be an authentic old door. Maybe everything there is isn't authentic any more. Maybe everything there is is a kind of pretending.”
― Ali Smith, The Accidental

“We were strangers under the same roof. We were perfect pretenders in the stage of the world.”
― Ranjani Ramachandran, Fourteen Urban Folklore

“I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually cost me something. And what pretending of this sort gives me is the gift of a pretend life.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Every fool’s greatest success is nothing but to dare to pretend to be clever because this trick works in some people!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The best I can do is to ‘pretendâ€� that I’m my own god. But in the pretending I have to pretend that I’m not pretending, and somehow that doesn’t sound very god-like to me.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“There is something more horrible than to live with an unhappy person and that is to live with someone who is pretending to be happy!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Be who you are, don’t be a pretender,
if you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember.”
― Freequill

“Never be a coward person; but if necessary you can pretend to be coward!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Being a good person is not nearly as honourable as being yourself.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“. . . all the little bistros and cafes and shops I'd frequented when I was out there, pretending to live a life.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“Everyone wants to help the world, but first and foremost everyone wants to help oneself.”
― Maria Karvouni

“But that’s only because we have to be that way in order to get on with our lives. Just because people are playing doesn’t mean their hearts aren’t in it.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, The Lake

“Was goodness still good if you hewed it out of tactical necessity? Was there, Baru wondered, any difference between being good and pretending to be good for your own gain, if you took the same actions in the end? Was there any difference between telling the truth unconditionally, and deploying the truth in service of your agenda, if you told the same truth?”
― Seth Dickinson, The Monster Baru Cormorant

“If you stick your head in the sand like an ostrich, pretending you don't exist â€� why get upset when the world agrees with you?”
― Christina Engela, Pearls Before Swine

“I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually cost me something. And what pretending or this sort gives me is the gift of a pretend life.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Pretending I’m all grown-up seems like too much work. I’d rather just be me; it’s effortless and much more fun.”
― Ron Baratono, The Writings of Ron Baratono

“You never pretend when you are all alone with yourself!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“To be my own god is to spend my life pretending that I am what I am not. But how do I pretend that such pretending isn’t destroying my life?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“For the rest of tonight she would be the most sparkling, unattainably gorgeous version of herself, nothing but smiles and flashing eyes—and no one would ever see how hurt she was, beneath it all.”
― Katharine McGee, The Dazzling Heights

“In summary, the conclusion that having DID is generally rewarding is unfounded because the vast majority of the attention such patients receive is skeptical, critical, exploitative, or hostile; they are often ignored if they do present symptoms of DID.
It is certainly possible that some individuals have attempted to feign the disorder. However, the hostile treatment that one would most likely receive would make feigning another disorder more rewarding.”
― David H. Gleaves

“You cannot teach an ego to be anything but egotistic, even though egos have the subtlest ways of pretending to be reformed.”
― Alan W. Watts, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

“Indeed, one fails to grasp the truth of true love, pretending someone else. It goes to someone else that's a fake and doesn't exist.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“-And why should I have to give up them up if I like them? Do you throw out the things you like?
-We can´t keep everything. There are times when we have to sort things out, right?”
― Dominique Goblet, Faire semblant c'est mentir

“The pretending in all shapes is the great lie, more dangerous than the lie.”
― Ehsan Sehgal