Quotes About Invisibility

The creatures I seek do not want to be seen.

Do we all possess a wish to remain unseen, unnoticed? Is the witnessing of our actions by others our greatest restraint?

She enjoyed being invisible, imagining herself as a three-dimensional linocut - the empty space, the bit that's cut out.

I already told you a ghost story," she said at last. "The one where the wife was invisible to the husband and the truth of the marriage was invisible to her.

Soaps are one of the few areas on TV that really embrace older women. In drama, there's this ridiculous invisibility for women between the ages of 40 and 60. Unless you're old enough to play a grandmother, there just aren't the roles.

She was invisible. Forgettable. Forgotten.

Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another: Why can't you see who I truly am?

Silence is a girls loudest cry

I feel safe in the car, alone and protected. I can see people milling about in the parking lot but they can't see me. Well, they can but they think I'm insane so they look away which is the same as being invisible.

you feel like a steel door has been locked; you're banging, but they just can't hear you. And being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in.

I was stunned at how easily things went on without me

She wanted to melt into the ground at that moment, just hot wax into a puddle and disappear through a sewer grate. His eyes. That look. No interest. Total humiliation

Sua figura não atraía olhares demorados, nem sua presença era notada. Para aqueles por quem passava, ele era uma alma eminentemente esquecível.

Her life was expected to be as anonymous as the era's needlework.

Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.

Criei-me entre livros,fazendo amigos invisíveis em páginas que se desfaziam em pó e cujo cheiro ainda conservo nas mãos.

She was invisible, so I imagined her as perfect. Next to her I was unworthy, vulgar, all too real.

The men, her husband and sons, leave for the quarry at seven o'clock sharp and return at five. What do they imagine she does all day? It makes her shiver to think of it, how not one pair of eyes can see through the roof and walls of her house and regard her as she moves through her dreamlike days, bargaining from minute to minute with indolence, that tempter.

It wasn't that she stopped being nice; she stopped being anything

If invisible people eat invisible food does invisible wind blow invisible trees?

People know me as 'Wipeout Girl' or 'Mercury Girl.' They never know my name, and sometimes, maybe that's a good thing.

I can pass as a lot of things: people meet me and don't think I'm gay and speak about gay people in a certain way or they don't know I'm Middle Eastern and do the same.

But if you think of all the people who don't like me, just think of all the millions who've never heard of me!

She had been privileged to live outside of Time, to enter and leave at will, looting and manipulating, weightless, invisible. Now Time had claimed her again, put her under house arrest, taken her passport away. Only an animal with a full set of pain receptors after all.