Pretenders Quotes

“Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Fake friends; those who only drill holes under your boat to get it leaking; those who discredit your ambitions and those who pretend they love you, but behind their backs they know they are in to destroy your legacies.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

“When things are like hunky dory, every enemy comes in the name of friend, but when things are twisted like turmoil, every friendly enemy shows you their colour.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Be careful of who becomes your friend and why. The person who will bite off your lips one day will have to first promise you a kiss today. Be careful of hypocrites.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“Next time, just give your enemy a smile, and he will wonder why?”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Life is an act and we are all actors in the arena of life. We all do act each day from dawn to dusk. Some act well but some act to cover their acts”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“The number of your antagonists are far more greater than that of your companions, so you have to keep a stone of awareness to mark the boundary line.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“We often find that People who claim virtue are the ones to lack it the most.”
― Charlyn Khater

“You should read the novel in order to live, to feel, to tell someone the hidden secret of it.
Read as if its your story, search your character in it.
You should never read a book, if you feel ashamed of telling its story...
Respect book or never read it.”
― Emma Brynstein

“But we could die tomorrow. Or the next day, or the day after that.”
― Rebecca Hanover, The Pretenders

“When I want to know someone has become evil, It`s when they stop feeling ashamed”
― Gugu mofokeng

“Today's zealots are mostly those pretending to be anti-religious.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“Love all, but be careful! Not until you get to know the true people around you, you shall always have people around you, and later realize the true people who should have truly be around you!”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Our naivety has left us convinced that the people with whom we sometimes talk about other people behind their backs will never talk about us behind our backs.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“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

“To address another human was one thing, but a singing voice was capable of so much more. Romance made you weak and love was about suffering. I wanted what the jazz musicians were looking for: the supreme. I wanted my voice to take life by the throat and rattle it until it made sense.”
― Chrissie Hynde, Reckless: My Life as a Pretender

“Treat loyal people right; else you will be surrounded by sycophants.”
― John Joclebs Bassey, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Have the courage to confront your conviction to realize if you are on [your] pupose, or just pretending to be.”
― T.F. Hodge

“Only pretenders surrender.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“Όλοι οι χορτοφάγοι, του αποκρίθηκα, όλοι οι ειρηνόφιλοι, ανθρωπόσοφοι, θεόσοφοι, αισθηματίες, σηκώνουν τα χεριά και φωνάζουν: Ειρήνη! Ειρήνη! Μα η ζωή ακολουθεί δικούς της νόμους, σκοτεινούς, που φαντάζουν κατώτεροι από την αρετή του ανθρώπου. Τραγικός είναι ο πόλεμος, τραγική είναι η ζωή, ο έρωτας, η ψυχή του ανθρώπου. Ζούμε μέσα στην αγωνία, την αμαρτία, την αβεβαιότητα. Μαχόμαστε ν' αρπάξουμε ό,τι μπορούμε από τα αιματερά αυτά στοιχεία και να τα κάνουμε πνέμα.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Journeying: Travels in Italy, Egypt, Sinai, Jerusalem and Cyprus

“Pretenders are just pretenders. They cannot be the real ones. They waste their own time and harm themselves. They live their entire lives empty-handed and without any vision.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Most people do not know, or cannot accept what they are, and that this present reality is all that there is. The past is just a memory, and the future merely an expectation. There is only one continuous present moment, the now.

This explains concepts such as religion, the afterlife, and reincarnation.

It explains why women butcher their bodies, with cosmetic surgery and breast implants.

It also explains why people make unrealistic promises when they marry, though they are not swans, are not biologically monogamous.

They deny primal instincts, such as violence, hate, and war, naturally exist inside them. For they are, the great pretenders.”
― Robert Black