Quotes About Invisibility

There are actually quite high profile British TV star cameos in it that you probably wouldn't even notice, that the British wouldn't even notice, let alone the American audience.

I do not wish to produce prose that draws attention to itself, rather than the world it describes.

He says unloved women have no biographies—they have histories.

unloved women have no biographies—they have histories.

I hide behind the door, so that Reality won't see me when it enters.

A morte é a curva da estrada, Morrer é só não ser visto

Morrer é só não ser visto.

We all live far away and anonymous; disguised, we suffer as unknowns.

Supposing you are a lady so completely dumb that the dogs in the street do not think you are worth growling at.

I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.

I have a lot of fans, but a lot of people don't know who I am.

It's fascinating to be in a place where no one has ever heard of me.

My most favorite thing about London is that nobody recognizes me. It's really... cool.

I've always been interested in the idea of people who fell through the cracks.

How do you observe something you can't see? This is the basic question of somebody who's interested in finding and studying black holes. Because black holes are objects whose pull of gravity is so intense that nothing can escape it, not even light, so you can't see it directly.

I am representing here - the sound of silence. The cry of innocence. And, the face of invisibility. I represent millions of those children who are left behind, and that's why I have kept an empty chair here as a reminder.

One of the most widely read novels by a black American is Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man.' It is his masterwork - it won the National Book Award in 1953 and catapulted my man to the highest levels of literary esteem.

The homeless often feel invisible, allowed to plummet through widening holes in the social safety net, then hidden in doorways from which people avert their eyes.

I always felt that what is scary is actually hearing someone tell you what they think they see. That sense of invisibility makes things a lot scarier, since your imagination tends to fill in the gaps.

There is nothing in this world as invisible as a monument.

Nevertheless his work lived on, precariously, desperately (as he would have wished, perhaps), yet it lived on. A handful of young men read it, reinvented him, tried to become his followers, but how can you follow someone who is not moving, someone who is trying, with every appearance of success, to become invisible?

It has already been noted that children in dysfunctional families feel responsible for their family's problems and also for solving them. There are basically three ways in which children attempt to save their families: by being invisible, ,by being bad, or by being good.

But what she hadn't realized was that this imaginary respect she craved was only granted to older men. She hadn't understood that when her body started to weaken and sag, when her beauty faded, she would become invisible.

And I'd figured out that no one cared, not really. No one gave a shit about anything but himself. People were addled by their own chatter, their own personal litany of fears and insecurities, self-loathing, and selfish desires. Hardly anyone could hear over that. I was invisible if I wanted to be.