Quotes About Invisibility

From 1969 to 1973, I was never played on radio stations.

Nobody knows me, and I hope that it stays like this.

As I drifted along with my bodiless invisibility, I felt myself more and more becoming an empty, floating shape, seeing without being seen and walking without the interference of those grosser creatures who shared my world. It was not an experience completely without interest or even pleasure. The clown's shibboleth of "here we are again" took on a new meaning for me as I felt myself a novitiate of a more rarified order of harlequinry. ("The Last Feast Of The Harlequin")

Immune to the blandishments of religions, countries, families, and whatever else that—with a smattering of emotive images and strains of maudlin music—can move the average citizen to tears or violence, the pessimist is invisible in both history books and the media. Without belief in gods or ghosts, unmotivated by a comprehensive delusion, he could never plant a bomb, plan a revolution, or shed blood for a cause. Pessimists are indeed lackadaisical as partisans in the human drama.

I'm nobody, who are you?

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

I want to be normal. I really want anonymity.

I like to go around, and people not knowing who I am.

Some days, for some reason, I can't go anywhere, and I'm like, 'That was a mistake,' and other days no one will even notice me.

I could rob a bank and no one would notice me, but Rock Hudson! He's a movie star.

I went to school, but nobody really noticed me. I just came to school, didn't dress up or anything - just a ghost. I just worked out and went out to the field and went the baseball route. That's how I've always been my whole life.

Some women say as they get older they're no longer noticed: they disappear. Men, for instance, don't see them. Nobody wants them. That doesn't happen to me because of who I am. Not because I'm any more scintillating company, but because I'm Ruth Rendell.

I really do miss being able to go through life a little less noticed.

I didn't like the attention and that's what's awesome about Rice. I would go to class, walk around campus and do my thing. No one even noticed who I was.

If there's a back door somewhere, I take it. I try to get about without being noticed.

Everyone goes To L.A. to be noticed. I went there to be completely invisible.

I can be normal by myself; no one notices me.

I can headline a festival and then literally, 10 minutes later, be walking around, and nobody notices.

I quite like sort of being able to walk down the street with no one noticing.

I was growing up and maturing at a time where we were invisible, man. We were nowhere except negative. Any time you saw a Latin person in Hollywood or on TV, they were some sort of negative character.

Age had not made him less handsome, as is so often the case; it had simply made him less visible.

There seemed insufficient substance to him to be the object of men's wrath. There seemed nothing about him sufficient to fuel any enterprise at all.

I'd always had the idea that I didnt want to be found. That if you died and nobody knew about it that would be as close as you could get to never having been here in the first place.

We don't exist, We're only mist, And that was just the wind that hissed.