Top Pretentiousness Quotes

Like a Columbus of the heart, mind and soul I have hurled myself off the shores of my own fears and limiting beliefs to venture far out into the uncharted territories of my inner truth, in search of w...

To be full of yourself is to make a fool of yourself.

I pick up the list of Benji's five favorite books because we've got work to do:Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon. He's a pretentious fuck and a liar.Underworld by Don DeLillo. He's a snob.On the Roa...

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

I need not adapt in certain ways. I am in fact but a visitor to this world, an ephemeral gasp within its long, tired history, and, before anything else, a follower of Christ. By this alone I have the...

I'm tired of 'pretentious' just being used as an excuse to dismiss anything that fucking expects you to have a brain.

If you ask a twenty-one-year-old poet whose poetry he likes, he might say, unblushing, Nobody's, In his youth, he has not yet understood that poets like poetry, and novelists like novels; he himself l...

Never trust someone that claims they care nothing of what society thinks of them. Instead of conquering obstacles, they simply pretend they don't exist.

All right, all right for you, you pretentious kneecap! How would you like a punch in the eye?

Lilian testifies eloquently to the misery that can ensue when the only challenge you can overcome in your own work is the challenge of coming to terms with the fact that you are not, in fact, presente...

Whenever an occasion arose in which she needed an opinion on something in the wider world, she borrowed her husband's. If this had been all there was to her, she wouldn't have bothered anyone, but as...