Quotes About Invisibility

I love to be anonymous.

I'm not really listed anywhere; I don't know how people find me!

As I was going up the stairI met a man who wasn't thereHe wasn't there again todayI wish, I wish he'd stay away.

It hasn't been easy to listen to the conversations at the table. Even without anyone expecting me to say anything. It hasn't been easy to sit there watching other people's lives go on. I

One thing about the greenhouse effect that makes it so difficult for some of us to take seriously is that it's invisible.

Because if you walk in a city you're jostled by hundreds of indifferent people with indifferent eyes that look at you as if you weren't there at all. You begin to feel you must be invisible. Hundreds and thousands of eyes, and not one pair really seeing you or caring who you are. I'd rather walk down Beilford High Street and know that everybody was saying, 'There goes the mad painter!' It's better to be mad than invisible." She

Presumably people lived in these other flats but Bel had lived in her flat for eighteen months—and she knew nobody. Sometimes she met people on the stairs but they passed by as if she were invisible. It was very different from Southmere where she knew everyone and everyone knew her and where, even if you did not know a person, it was correct to say "Good morning" as you passed.

the best way to hide in plain sight was to get fat.

She's understanding now what women mean when they say females her age seem to disappear.

wanted to live in the dark as a teenager until I realized that ugliness already makes you invisible

These people who have lost someone look naked because they think themselves invisible.

There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.

No one looks at us. We might as well be invisible; or clothing marks us as strangers, transients. They are polite, so polite; no one stares at us.

I know better than most people that a criminal isn't always a thug in a black leather jacket with a big brand on his forehead to warn us away. Criminals sit next to us on the bus. They pack our groceries and cash our paychecks for us and teach our children. They look no different from you or me. And that's why they get away with it.

Words got in the way. The things we felt the hardest--like what it was like to have a boy touch you as if you were made of light, or what it meant to be the only person in the room who wasn't noticed--weren't sentences; they were knots in the wood of our bodies, places where our blood flowed backward. If you asked me, not that anyone ever did, the only words worth saying were I'm sorry.

I don't think it's an invisible chromosome, or the inability to get pregnant, or anything else, that makes people so cruel to transgender folks. I think what they hate is difference. What they hate is that the world is complicated in ways they can't understand. People want the world to be simple.

This is when I realize that Anna has already left the table, and more importantly, that nobody noticed.

How could you beat an enemy you couldn't see?

I learned a lot that night. For example, that part of being the magician's assistant means coming face-to-face with illusion. That invisibility is really just knotting your body in a certain way and letting the black curtain fall over you. That people don't vanish into thin air; that when you can't find someone, it's because you've been misdirected to look elsewhere.

Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.

It`s like I don,t matter to anybody. I just hate being left out of everything after all I do for them.

I'm tired of being left out like I don't count or exist being forced into doing things just because.

Being patient and staying with myself through the feelings of being invisible and unwanted.

To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.