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Quotes About Invisibility

And I remember looking at the two of you and seeing you together and thinking how you were really differant with him. Much calmer. And you didn't shout at one another. And it made me so sad because it was like you didn't really need me at all. And somehow that was even worse than you and me arguing all the time because it was like I was invisible. And I think that was when I realised you and your father were probably better off if I wasn't living in the house.
~ Mark Haddon
Depending on yet more men seems to her like part of the problem. Better to rely on their own invisibility. A memory of that deer standing on the path then sprinting away. The sisterhood of idiot creatures, the wisdom that comes with knowing you could be prey.
~ Mark Haddon
But what is the answer? Armed guards? Depending on yet more men seems to her like part of the problem. Better to rely on their own invisibility. A memory of that deer standing on the path then sprinting away. The sisterhood of idiot creatures, the wisdom that comes with knowing you could be prey.
~ Mark Haddon
The MacKinnons were always new, always almost just like everyone else. Always next door to normal. It was like growing up in the witness protection program without changing your name.
~ Ann-Marie MacDonald
One of the requirements for the cameraman of the film was that he be completely invisible during this process, and Gavin was just the guy to do that, because he was mild-mannered and English.
~ Anthony Kiedis
Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
~ Aristotle
Meh onu umeh khayeynu—what do folks like us count? Moshul kekheres hanishbor—we're just so much scrap in their eyes. Except that real scrap isn't thrown away so easily …
~ Sholom Aleichem
As a fourth-line winger, I'm nearly invisible. Sure, Coach Estleman knows my name. It's Tyler Watson. He understands my style of play. He knows what to expect from me on the ice. Other than that, I tend to fade into the background for him.
~ Sigmund Brouwer
It's just easier not to be noticed. That way people don't expect things from you. There's no pressure, nothing to fear.
~ Sigmund Brouwer
I've known plenty of women who brace themselves whenever they leave the house, even a few who try to avoid leaving the house. Of course, a woman has only to wait until she's a certain age, when she becomes invisible, and—problem solved.
~ Sigrid Nunez
I didn't think you were wrong about any of this. I've known plenty of women who brace themselves whenever they leave the house, even a few who try to avoid leaving the house. Of course, a woman has only to wait until she's a certain age, when she becomes invisible, and—problem solved.
~ Sigrid Nunez
the little girl feels that her body is escaping her, that it is no longer the clear expression of her individuality; it becomes foreign to her; and at the same moment, she is grasped by others as a thing; on the street, eyes follow her, her body is subject to comments; she would like to become invisible she is afraid of becoming flesh and afraid to show her flesh
~ Simone de Beauvoir
A popular Spanish song says in words of marvelous truth: "If anyone wants to make himself invisible, there is no surer way than to become poor." Love sees what is invisible.
~ Simone Weil
The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
~ George Herbert
I think I can lead a pretty anonymous life, yeah.
~ Hugh Dancy
He hid in the crowd, she hid in herself.
~ Raubin Chaudhary
Is it just me or am I the only person that didn't receive an invitation to the Grand Ball so many call life?
~ Stanley Victor Paskavich
Ordinary exploration begins in the juiciest sort of indecision, in deliberate, then routine fits of absence of mind... Exploring requires the cloak of invisibility bicyclists and walkers take for granted.
~ John R. Stilgoe
What makes all these traps so dangerous is their invisibility. Because most are hard-wired into our thinking process, we fail to recognize them— even when we're falling right into them.
~ John S. Hammond
The Hitachi Corporation has created the world's smallest, thinnest RFID tags. Referred to as the "powder type," these tags are barely detectable to the naked eye. They are so small that they can be easily incorporated into thin paper or a single clothing fiber. These tiny tracking devices
~ John W. Whitehead
When you get old....you become invisible. It's just the truth. And yet it's freeing in a way.
~ Elizabeth Strout
Grace sat down where the chair wasn't.
~ Ellen Raskin
No one ever notices Sydelle Pulaski," she muttered, "but now they will. Now they will.
~ Ellen Raskin
There are wings on the shoulders of all men, But being invisible the wings are never spread.
~ ELSA BARKER