Quotes About Invisibility

Gibbs is perhaps the most brilliant person most people have never heard of. Modest to the point of near-invisibility, he passed virtually the whole of his life, apart from three years spent studying in Europe, within a three-block area bounded by his house and the Yale campus in New Haven, Connecticut. For his first ten years at Yale he didn't even bother to draw a salary.

We fear becoming invisible if we stop practicing our faults.

Walkin' through the leaves fallin' from the trees, Feelin' like a stranger nobody sees...

New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.

Nobody knew me at Buckton. Clem had chosen the town because of that; and besides, even if I had wimp out, there was not enough gas to help me going further north. - I spit on your graves

Y'know what they call the person who does all the work but gets none of the credit? An opportunity.

He carried no electronics. No laptop, no cell phone, no walkie-talkie. He carried no ID. Beside his large-caliber Glock, spare magazines, and a knife, there was nothing on his person that could connect him to anything, anyone, or anywhere. That was how professionals worked.

Such preponderance of women workers resulted all too often in the invisibility of the cotton industry, overshadowed by the male-dominated coal-mining, iron-making, and railroading industries.

I felt it was very important not to be recognized.

And I have no face, I have wanted to efface myself.

Comecei a entender como os misóginos conseguiam fazer as mulheres de bobas. Eles eram como deuses: invulneráveis e poderosos. Eles desciam à terra e desapareciam. Era impossível colocar as mãos neles.

I didn't really see why people should look at me

If I were useful, you wouldn't know it was me.

For starters, you're the only one who can hear or see me. Like I said, you're my only concern. I won't reveal myself to anyone else.

People never talked to me," she snapped. "Half the time they didn't even know I was there. How do you think I was able to keep up the ruse for so long in the first place? I was invisible, Colin. No one saw me, no one talked to me. I just stood and listened, and no one noticed.

Consider that people will talk about the fact that I now "pass" as a woman, but nobody ever asks about how difficult it must have been for me to "pass" as a man before.

No one else knows I'm alive, which means they won't notice when I'm gone.

I wish I was invisible to him, to everyone.

The other kids ignored me, and that hurt more than I cared to admit. Before long, I'd decided they had nothing on me. I could play their game. I could be happy being invisible.

She took off her glasses and put them in my hand. 'You know, without these, I can't see anything. What's funny is that it's like no one else can see me either. Isn't it strange? I kind of feel invisible.

There are, as always, social and political aspects to seeing nothing as well. Pythagoras in the sixth century B.C. found it perfectly natural to count slaves as 'nothing,' . . . Slaves, like machines today, were simply taken for granted. These days, we take for granted everything from homeless people sleeping in the street to telephones and computers. We have learned to renormalize these things as part of 'nothing.' Whatever is standard becomes effectively invisible.

When you've got a mask on, you're kind of invincible. It's almost like nobody can see you, and you can do what you want to do without consequences.

Despite a rich history of black Americans involved in the Catholic Church, invisibility is a big problem for black Catholics in America.

Being able to hear an artist and emulate them has been a huge part of being successful as a producer and co-writer. I think it's a problem when a producer comes in to work with an artist, and you can't hear the artist as well anymore. It's very important to me to be invisible.