Quotes About Invisibility

The girl you're sitting next to you who smiles all the time is also the girl who cries herself to sleep at night knowing that she can never get you to notice her.

No one spoke to me. I was easy to ignore. It was not so very different from home, really.

Sometimes you want to go for a walk and you don't want to be watched. You just want to be anonymous and blend in. Especially when I travel, I feel that way, because I can't really go out and see a city the way other people can and I miss out on a lot.

Just as the track of birds that cleave the air Is not discovered, nor yet the path of fish That skim the water, so the course of those Who do good actions is not always seen.

He could cloak a mind and fool another into thinking him invisible. A parlor trick, but one he disdained to use as she glided through the chamber sprinkled with stars against void. The stars were like Eva. They shimmered with a luminous brilliance, but couldn't see their own magnificence.

the problem of the unthinkability of anything outside and beyond the legacies of sexual polarization that limit perception, and above all the invisibility of this problem.

Sex class is so deep as to be invisible"—The Dialectic of Sex is a passionate, brilliant and uncompromising book.

He also went invisible, yet stayed (such privilege hath omnipresence).

Alice retired to the background until she was barely visible at all.

Besides, as Cyrus became more military, his wife learned the only technique through which a soldier can survive. She never made herself noticeable, never spoke unless spoken to, performed what was expected and no more, and tried for no promotions. She became a rear rank private. It was much easier that way. Alice retired to the background until she was barely visible at all.

They've not forgotten him: worse, they never heard of him.

there inside the person is what will pass away and become one with what is invisible in everything...

Boys with a 'failure to launch' are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete.

Sincerity is like a black ant on black rock in a very dark night. They exist but are difficult to see.

I am scared almost all the time. But I never tell anyone. I can't afford to. I have to go on pretending I'm this confident person, because if I don't, if I'm quiet, I become invisible.

We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.

Does the work of a girl always have to be so anonymous?

I've been invisible for a long time, and he's been walking the world with all the privilege of being a man.

The power of the visibleis the invisible.

Who knows how many people are invisible because their stories don't fit our categories?

Translators are like ninjas. If you notice them, they're no good.

True greatness is anonymous. Therefore the greatest man is nobody.

I'm just that quiet girl who tries to be nice to everyone, who tries to understand everything, but still cannot escape the darkness that surrounds me. I'm that girl who tries to find herself, but has no luck doing so. I'm that girl who can never find Mr.Right or Ms. Right. I'm that girl who everyone forgets. I'm unique and awkward at times, but I can be funny or anything else anyone wants me to be. That's who I am.

Some disabled people spend a significant amount of their energy on trying to come across as abled or as not that disabled.