After all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness piled on top of another? Most people just fell in line like obedient little children, doing exactly what society expected of them at any given moment, all the while pretending that they’d actually made some sort of choice.
Tom PerrottaTags: expectations pretense
Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.
Zora Neale HurstonTags: pretense
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure — that is all that agnosticism means.
Clarence DarrowTags: knowledge ignorance agnosticism pretense compliment scopes-trial
I don't damsel well. Distress, I can do. Damseling? Not so much.
James PattersonTags: empowerment distress pretense trouble maximum-ride james-patterson damsels-in-distress get-over-it
Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for no one was ever for a second taken in.
Virginia WoolfTags: pretense
Ebenso hilft es der Seele nichts, wenn der Leib heilige Kleider anlegt, wie's die Priester und Geistlichen tun, auch nicht, wenn er sich in Kirchen und heiligen Stätten befindet; auch nicht, wenn er sich mit heiligen Dingen befaßt; auch nicht, wenn er leiblich betet, fastet, wallfahrtet und alle guten Werke tut, die in alle Ewigkeit durch und in dem Leib geschehen können. Es muß allemal noch etwas anderes sein, was der Seele Rechtschaffenheit und Freiheit bringen und geben kann. Denn alle diese genannten Dinge, Werke und Weisen kann auch ein böser Mensch, ein Gleißner und Heuchler an sich haben und ausüben, und durch so etwas entsteht auch kein anderes Volk als lauter Gleißner.
Martin LutherYou wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.
Alan MooreTags: honesty truthfulness pretense
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
Edith WhartonTags: friends kindness family loneliness falsehood pretense insincerity
That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your pretence. It's true, we're locked in an image, an act - and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image, they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it, they feel like you're trying to steal their most precious possession.
Jim MorrisonTags: wisdom love self-esteem self-image pretense
There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.
Vera NazarianTags: lies playing lie illusion games acting falsehood pretend game pretense act artifice pretending pretence
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