Quotes About Invisibility

While most people in TV, radio, and the press have treated me wonderfully, some of the most important people want to pretend I don't exist.

One of the things I liked about my character in 'Run' is that she can just disappear into the background if she wants, which is what I'm like.

I needed to hear the world but didn't want the world to know I was listening.

It is a lonely existence to be a child with a disability which no-one can see or understand, you exasperate your teachers, you disappoint your parents, and worst of all you know that you are not just stupid.

The library is an easy place to be when you have no place you need to go and a desire to be invisible.

There are many people who do not know what some of the colored women did during the war. There were hundreds of them who assisted the Union soldiers by hiding them and helping them to escape.

I curl up, make myself smaller, try to disappear entirely. Wrapped in silence, I slide my bracelet that reads 'mentally disoriented' around and around my wrist.

I've never sought to be known or recognized by people.

When we doubt our minds, we tend to discount its products. If we fear intellectual self-assertiveness, perhaps associating it with loss of love, we mute our intelligence. We dread being visible; so we make ourselves invisible, then suffer because no one sees us.

When we convey love, appreciation, empathy, acceptance, respect, we make a child visible. When we convey indifference, scorn, condemnation, ridicule, we drive the child's self into the lonely underground of invisibility.

Me, I just want to wear ordinary clothes and not stand out.

Which is worse - to be despised, or to be ignored? — From the gleaning journal of H.S. Curie

That which hides in plain sight is the most difficult thing to find.

It was easy to deal with being invisible, but being noticed ?that was something entirely different.

He began to feel like a ghost in his own life, existing in a forced blind spot of the world.

To be away from home and yet find oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet remain hidden from the world.

I walked around the block twice, passed 200 people and failed to see a human being.

where it's not unusual for certain senior personnel to keep such a low profile that only the payroll computers in HR can remember their names.

I just miss - I miss being anonymous.

I often feel like I could fall off the face of the Earth. As long as 'Mama' was around, nobody would really miss me. People really think of her as an actual person. People all the time see me and ask, 'Where's Mama?' Like she should be with me.

Bizarrely, I actually feel safer the older I get, like people will expect less from me, and I can become more and more invisible, yet more and more eccentric.

One of the first rules the Emperor had drummed into her [Mara Jade] so long ago was to blend in as best she could with her surroundings

Everybody knew what she was called, but nobody anywhere knew her name. Disremembered and unaccounted for, she cannot be lost because no one is looking for her, and even if they were, how can they call her if they don't know her name?

But then Job was a man. Invisibility was intolerable to men. What complaint would a female Job dare to put forth? And if, having done so, and He deigned to remind her of how weak and ignorant she was, where was the news in that? What shocked Job into humility and renewed fidelity was the message a female Job would have known and heard every minute of her life.