Quotes About Invisibility

Renée said it was easier to spot a moose in New Hampshire than a black person. She said she was used to being stared at as if her head were on fire, people had been staring that way for years. The

Most of the pathetic scenes in almost everybody's life are scenes unnoted by anyone and totally disregarded by the person in question.

Behind the camera, I was invisible. When I lifted it up to my eye it was like I crawled into the lens, losing myself there. and everything else fell away.

I wish I were a white crayon, that way no one could use me.

Housework is something you do that nobody notices until you don't do it.

he moved neither forward nor backward in time, but merely endured variations of the same day over and over. Maybe he was the one trapped underwater, under a Plexiglas floor, while the world moved on, men and women checking in and out of rooms, lugging overstuffed suitcases, the soles of their shoes passing lightly above him.

Far better, he decides, to keep one's presence small, inconspicuous.

Como chamamos a luz visível? Chamamos de cor. Mas o espectro eletromagnético corre ao zero em uma direção e ao infinito na outra, então, na verdade, crianças, matematicamente, toda luz é invisível.

I will become invisible, he thinks. I will work only at night. I will be so careful they will never suspect me; I will be like the swallows on their gutter, the insects in their lawn, concealed, a scavenger, part of the scenery. When the trees shift in the wind, so I will shift, and when rain falls I will fall too. It will be a kind of disappearing.

Look, as a child growing up it occurred to me that I had everything I could have wanted: a roof over my head, education, food. All of it because my father provided... My way of giving back was being that invisible guy. Giving something back from a lifetime of taking.

I can be among the general public and next to me is a big picture of my face, but no one notices apart from my friends.

He felt like the invisible boy. When he got to be part of the mystery Men he felt like he had a purpose.

I like going to France, because no one knows who I am.

It's quite frustrating taking a back seat in films.

You cannot see me from where I look at myself.

You can't kill what isn't there, even if what isn't there can kill you.

and i would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more

Church staff creep silently as part of their job, you don't notice them.

22. Jeste? zadaniem. Jak okiem si?gn??, nie wida? ucznia.

When you're poor, you are invisible. Every poor person will tell you nobody sees you. So being famous was me just wanting to be seen.

A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.

I can walk down the street, and 85 percent of the people on the block are really quite oblivious to me. They either think I'm probably an actor or else I installed their storm windows two years ago, or I work at their bank, or maybe I'm their cousin Marie's gynecologist. Then, to the other 15 percent of those people on the street, I'm a rock star.

The history of blackness is also a history of erasure.

The problem with losing your anonymity is that you can never go back.