Quotes About Invisibility

so I just finished stuffing my bike with invisible air and went home; and thus ended my career as a hostage- briefly, inconclusively, with consummate inconsequentiality: a nonevent realizing its full potential, brave new currents in con­temporary invisibility-

Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.

I think there's something very peculiar about living in the city and not part of the major metropolis; that actually makes it remarkably easy to disappear.

I find I have to walk a little faster in public these days, but it's very easy to remember when nobody had any idea who I was.

But as a reporter, that's how you know you're doing a good job - when no one's talking about you. And something has gone wrong if they are.

I wasn't bullied in high school, I was just ignored.

The thing about hearing loss is that no one can see it. Most people are so impatient; they just assume that the person with hearing loss is being rude, or slow-witted.

i've become the High Priestess of Career Longevity in the Chapel of Social Change preaching from the Pulpit of Political Invisibility the Congregation of the Marginalized and Already Converted

When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.

As crimes pile up, they become invisible.

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.

Many of the writers I admire - Melville, Dickinson, Kafka - were virtually invisible during their lifetimes. Art, I think, often has to dance around in the void.

Your name is Rain, isn't it? Rain slips in the cracks and slides through the seams. You can do it? Can't you?

An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.

The operation of the secret police, on the contrary, miraculously sees to it that the victim never existed at all.

My reality was feeling lonely while touring to predominately white countries where I sing to fans who don't see me, don't hear me, don't cheer me on.

Was unhappiness really so invisible? Or did people simply prefer to turn away, as if from lepers?

When a man believes all women are alike, but wants women from guessing, what does he do? He keeps his beliefs to himself, and pretends, to allay her suspicions, that what she has in common with other women is precisely what makes her different. Thus her sexuality eventually became synonymous with her individuality. The sex privatization of women is the process whereby women are blinded to their generality as a class which renders them invisible as individuals to the male eye.

Beatrice Warde: "La copa de cristal o por qué el arte de la impresión debe ser invisible". Su teoría, sencilla pero contundente, defendía que incluso el mejor tipo de letra existía solo con el objetivo de comunicar una idea. No había sido creado para ser visto y mucho menos para ser admirado. Cuanto más visible la fuente o la maquetación de una página, peor la tipografía. (...) Cuanto más transparente el cristal, más se apreciará su contenido.

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.

Without a safe haven, one of the most authentic parts of who you are, who you love, felt invisible to the world.

The sides are steep and the nights are long and cold down in the hole, light and love and the world above mean nothing to the mole.

What better place to hide than among that part of society that no one else even wants to acknowledge.

There is a loneliness to illness, a child's desire to be pitied and seen. But it is precisely this recognition that is elusive. How can you explain and identify your condition if not one has any grasp of what it is you suffer from and the symptoms wax and wane? How do you describe a disease that's not always there?