Quotes About Invisible

Thus, a nocturnal reality of the soul, of the incorporeal--which is not nothing--but which needs to 'adorn' itself with the visible--which is like the opposite of the visible--The visible opens onto an invisible that is its relief or its structure and where identity is rather non-difference.

Essence and existence, imaginary and real, visible and invisible -- painting scrambles all our categories, spreading out before us its oneiric universe of carnal essences, actualized resemblances, mute meanings.

The invisible is a hollow in the visible, a fold in passivity, not pure production.

Their life together, which had its distinct rhythms and drama, was generally invisible to everyone else; sometimes she thought they were like performers in a flea circus between shows, doing their microscopic tricks only for each other.

Talent is a firefly; even in a remote dark forest, sooner or later it is caught to an eye.

Sometimes your whole system just shuts down and you wake up in the morning and everything's black and no matter how much people speak to you and try to talk you out of it and tell you everything's okay, it doesn't work.

She's a dead loss. Has no idea what she wants to do with her life. She's so insipid, she's almost invisible.

When I'm shooting a movie, I'm always in an invisible theater seat. I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained.

I sent my Soul through the Invisible, some letter of that After-life to spell: And by and by my Soul return'd to me, And answer'd "I Myself am Heav'n and Hell." —Omar Khayyám, The Rubaiyat

We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with percepts. Memory, in this flawed model, is simply rewinding the tape and playing it back in the theater of the mind. This is not at all what happens. The perceptual system, and the brain that analyzes its data, are deeply influenced by the beliefs it already holds. As a consequence, much of what passes before our eyes may be invisible to a brain focused on something else.

It breathed. I felt its warm breath upon my cheek. It struggled fiercely. It had hands. They clutched me. Its skin was smooth, just like my own. There it lay, pressed close up against me, solid as stone—and yet utterly invisible!

Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.

perhaps ghosts aren't meant to be seen. Perhaps they are meant to be felt.

Instead of being exoskeletons or blobs, our churches need endoskeletons. An endoskeleton is the power behind the movement and the key component that no one ever sees. It brings structure, intentionality, agility, and life.

Those who show up in your life do so through an invisible attraction and your tacit approval. They have the same focus, the same beliefs, and the same vibration, or ones that are complementary to yours. They need you to fulfill their "prophecies" as much as you need them for yours. They'll become your teachers, not because they're wise but because you seek to become so.

The price works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time.

She wasn't hideous or shameful to look at, but she had prematurely reached the stage in a woman's life when no one noticed her entering or leaving a room.

Who is this invisible antiterrorist? It's me, Mindy Kaling. I was hiding behind Cee Lo's fur coat, and no one saw me.

The terrorists scramble. Who is this invisible antiterrorist? It's me, Mindy Kaling. I was hiding behind Cee Lo's fur coat,

The sky is like an invisible map of songs.

I wished there had been obvious signs of destruction on all of us kids: bruises or burn marks, something that indicated how violent our house was, but words and neglect don't leave visible marks. And that confuses even the person who knows better. (169)

Africa can't always keep living on donations and charities, or to keep begging on the developed countries, as every free thing has got its invisible cost attached to it.

Children are only terrified of invisible ghosts. But some human beings are just as terrible as these creatures.

Morality is about to die out in our generation, even a fool is defended and hidden under the invisible cloak of freedom.