Quotes About Invisibility

We're all the same to them, Phuong understood with a mix of anger and shame—small, charming, and forgettable. She

In their working outfits as busboys, waiters, gardeners, filed hands, fishermen, manual laborers, custodians, or simply the un- and underemployed, these shabby examples of the lumpen blended into the background wherever they happened to be, always seen as a mass, never noticed as individuals.

We were the unwanted, the unneeded, and the unseen, invisible to all but ourselves. And you are so happy you don't know whether to laugh or cry.

There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.

There may be a great fire in our hearts yet no one comes to warm themselves by it and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke

American society has willfully deleted the fact of homosexual behavior from its mind, laundering things as they come along, in order to maintain a more comfortable illusion. The censors removed it; the critics said, "Well, look! It isn't there"; and anyone who still saw it was labeled a pervert

The hard part about SNL is, there's no real communication when you get there. It's not like people are mean to you, they just act like you're not there.

And yet when I wish to explore how faith works, I usually sneak in by the back door of doubt, for I best learn about my own need for faith during its absence. God's invisibility guarantees I will experience times of doubt. Everyone dangles on a pendulum that swings from belief to unbelief, back to belief, and ends - where?

I do not wish to shine. I prefer shadows, quiet, periods of solitude. I do not wish to be noticed. If one is all but invisible to others, one cannot be envied, inspire anger or suspicion. Near invisibility is a way of life that I recommend.

Nameless has no credit cards. He rarely carries identification of any kind, not even in false names.

I love it that I'm standing alone, it doesn't bother me, actually I prefer it, actually I don't give a shit. I am a superior being in an alien world. No, in a world of red-faced aliens. That thought tickled her, but only for a minute. Mainly she longed to feel that she wasn't invisible.

Drawing attention to myself has never been a goal.

I would have been happier if I'd been anonymous.

The dream of being invisible . . . When I find myself in an environment where I can enjoy the illusion of being invisible, I am really happy.

I am not at all the sort of person who attracts attention, I am an anonymous presence against an even more anonymous background.

The author was an invisible point from which the books came

If you close your eyes, no one can see you...

Becoming nothing and no one was something she knew how to do.

I grew up in the East Village, in Alphabet City, when it was a very dangerous neighborhood. To survive there, I had to learn to be a little bit invisible.

I don't mean to be highfalutin about it, but I try to limit my visibility.

Visibility is a tricky thing; is someone visible when you can point her out in a crowd, or when you understand what her life feels like to her?

I love to give voice to things that are not very visible.

As a Muslim woman, I'm all too familiar with the media shorthand for 'Muslim' and 'woman' equaling Covered in Black Muslim Woman. She's seen, never heard. Visible only in her invisibility under that black burka, niqab, chador, etc.

It's hard being visible, so I've made myself invisible.