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Quotes About Invisibility

Silverfish: He disappeared a few years ago. Disappeared? How? said Cuddy. We think, said Silverfish, leaning closer, that he found a way of making himself invisible. Really? Because, said Silverfish, nodding conspiratorially, no-one has seen him.
~ Terry Pratchett
Only by the shuddering of the bed did Toby realize the girl was sobbing. Molly herself made no sound; it was as though her grief was trapped in a jar, her cries inaudible to anyone but her.
~ Tess Gerritsen
I'm restless, bored, and invisible. A dangerous thing for any woman to be.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Mac- "I'm afraid you'll leave me behind since you can't see me." Ryodan- "I'd leave you behind if I could see you.
~ Karen Marie Moning
It's almost as if we're invisible to them, even the ones with eyes intact, I murmur as I rise. The Winter Court tirelessly hunted us for a nightmarish eternity, yet here we are—and not one of them seems to care. Don't count on it.
~ Karen Marie Moning
She is no one, because she lacks any trait that might render her visible: beauty, money, conformity.
~ Kate Millett
This salt mist blots out everything that comforts and speaks to the traveler: roads, bridges, towns, trees. There's no face I might see and know, only the mist whose insistent hand runs over our faces and flanks.
~ Gabriela Mistral
That if she didn't know him, no one knew him, and he might as well not exist.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
he thought that the crowd seemed to part for her, in a way that the world never moved for him.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
I'll be the invisible girl, Everyone passing through me, No one touching.
~ Gary Soto
It was quiet in the balcony. I often liked to sit up there and think about pellet stoves and then with my thumbs type my blog on my cell phone. My mother and the minister had no idea I was sitting right above them. This is a good thing to remember in this life: no one ever looks up.
~ Brock Clarke
I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!
~ Bruce Dickinson
Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.
~ Bruce Jackson
You have got to abstract yourself so that you present a faceless picture to society.
~ Bruce Jay Friedman
Surveillance is the business model of the Internet for two primary reasons: people like free, and people like convenient. The truth is, though, that people aren't given much of a choice. It's either surveillance or nothing, and the surveillance is conveniently invisible so you don't have to think about it.
~ Bruce Schneier
The Internet of Things is supposed to be invisible to all but its corporate and military masters. But the Internet itself is hugely obvious and famous—because, even though the Internet is also corporate and military in its origins, for about a decade the Internet was all anybody talked about.
~ Bruce Sterling
They were not mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, they were absent in the Constitution and they were invisible in the new political democracy. They were the women of early America.
~ Howard Zinn
It made me feel good to know that I could see him and he couldn't see me, and that I was aware and fully conscious and he wasn't
~ Iain Banks
When I get into trouble at school I'd like to take an invisibility cloak, drape it over me and sneak out the door. Or I'd like to have a 3 headed-dog because then no one would argue with me.
~ Daniel Radcliffe
I grew up when people were afraid to 'come out' as gay. If you asked me how many gay kids I grew up with or went to school with, I would have said none - which of course could not have been true. The truth is I have no idea how many confused and frightened kids I grew up with. They are still out there.
~ Susan Estrich
Nothing is easier to avoid than publicity. If one genuinely doesn't want it, one doesn't get it.
~ C.P. Snow
Operating systems are like underwear — nobody really wants to look at them.
~ Bill Joy
I thought it was safer and easier to be one my own. But I don't think I was to be invisible anymore because-because it's lonely, and I don't want to be lonely. I don't want to be alone.
~ Han Nolan
I still have anonymity, which is great. I can go out anywhere I want and no one ever recognizes me.
~ Chris Pine