Quotes About Invisibility

It's nothing he can see or lay hands on-sudden gases, a violence upon the air and no trace afterward...a Word, spoken with no warning into your ear, and then silence forever. Beyond its invisibility, beyond hammerfall and doomcrack, here is its real horror, mocking, promising him death with German and precise confidence, laughing down all of Tantivy's quiet decencies...no, no bullet with fins, Ace...not the Word, the one Word that rips apart the day....

What a shock it had been when she began to grow invisible to men and they no longer registered her. How humiliating to discover time had abducted her favorite version of herself and replaced it with a saggy middle-aged woman instead.

After all, no one ever sought out her company, or tried to catch her eye. She could stand directly in front of a grand lord or lady, or even a tray-bearing footman, and more likely than not, she wouldn't be noticed.

The beauty about the D-list is that people who are on it probably don't know they are.

I suffered like this ever since I was born. I was ignored by everyone, forgotten, told I was not needed... I lived like the bugs underneath a rock... Know! Know my pain!

Sobrevivo a cada manhã quando, cruzando as portas e corredores que me conduzem às ruas intermináveis, imagino sempre que sou invisível para cada um dos que passam.

It does not make them illegal. It does not make them immoral. It does not even make them unpopular. It makes them invisible and therefore irrelevant.

Technopoly eliminates alternatives to itself in precisely the way Aldous Huxley outlined in Brave New World," he argued in his 1993 book on the topic. "It does not make them illegal. It does not make them immoral. It does not even make them unpopular. It makes them invisible and therefore irrelevant.

he shrugged. The gesture was his armour. His defence. His indifference was a cloak of invisibility behind which he could hide.

Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them.

We are so close, but he's looking at her, so he doesn't see me at all.

Once Akash set me up with invisibility and taught me some basic killing skills,

I've felt as if I didn't exist, as if I were invisible, miles away from the world, miles away. You can't imagine how much alone I've been all my life.

Tell her I was young once and star-bright Who am now invisible . . .

He . . . felt as if, wanting to be needed by everyone, he were merely becoming some sort of semi-invisible messenger.

La objetivación de la mujer es tan predominante que no la percibimos y en la juventud nos esclaviza. El feminismo no nos ha salvado de esa esclavitud. Solo nos libramos con la edad, cuando nos convertimos en seres invisibles y ya no somos objeto de deseo, o cuando alguna tragedia nos sacude hasta los huesos y nos confronta con lo fundamental de la existencia.

Se mantenían invisibles, pero empezamos a oír el llamado lúgubre de la trutuca y de los pilloi, una flauta que hacen con huesos de las piernas de sus enemigos

If you would know and not be known, live in a city.

The forgotten man. He is the clean, quiet, virtuous domestic citizen who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of outside his little circle. ... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.

For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible.

I'm in fact a hair under six feet, but I'm very svelte. People would never see me if I turned sideways.

The best complement I ever got from the public or producers or directors is that I just totally blend in and become the character and they don't notice me and that the play happens or the movie happens or the TV show happens.

No one looks twice at me when they're around, and 'Cinderella' has made no difference. And I know that isn't going to change.

You can certainly keep a low public profile if you want to.