Quotes About Invisibility

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

The hippopotamus is invisible in water.

People with [Chronic Fatigue] who kill themselves are the millenium's favorite type of disabled citizens-- those who will walk quietly among the healthy, then quietly dispose of themselves.

none had been outside Russia. I kept trying to remember something that I had read about a species of fish that was born, lived, spawned, died in the dark waters of a cave; and were blind.

It's so hard, because so much of the time when I'm here, what you're seeing is not what I'm seeing. I feel like such an imposter. I'm out in my ocean, and you don't know that. And I can't tell you what's going on. Sometimes I'd really like to tell you, but I can't. I'm gone.

strange as it seems, most of the sociopaths are invisible.

The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible.

The powers cannot see those who have put on the perfect light, and they cannot seize them. One puts on the light in the mystery of union.

I have two arms but not a bone, I can't be hurt with knife or stone. I have a head but lack a face, I don't need eyes to match your pace. I'm shifty, a thief, a trick of the eyes, My robes are made of mystery and lies. I am short, I am thin, I am monstrous and tall, But when midnight comes, I am nothing at all.

Me and my needs were driving my mother away. Me and my needs retreated to my closet, disappeared into fairy tales. I started making up a world where my needs wouldn´t exist at all.

Pero, ante todo, la felicidad me asusta. Soy consciente del dolor que puedo causar. La idea de la decepción me impide disfrutar de una historia de forma espontánea. Creo que no he nacido para vivir las cosas de forma duradera, aparte de la invisibilidad. Me contento con degustar alguna chuchería de vez en cuando, pero respeto las dosis homeopáticas de amor que me he prescrito.

The weirdest thing about a mind is that you can have the most intense things going on in there but no one else can see them. The world shrugs.

Visible being is natural...But language, art, history gravitate around the invisible (ideality).

and everything that's been seen and everything that's hidden.

People see what they want to see. They're busy trying to figure out who Bandersnitch is, but what they don't expect is someone who looks like me, so no one sees me, even when I'm right in front of them. I'm hiding in plain sight. I stay in the background mostly. It's a damnable thing, but it works. You were surprised at who I was, remember. I wasn't as you imagined me.

your ability to see is sometimes only as good as your willingness to go unseen.

Left alone with the dial tone...excuse me, operator, why is no one listening?

If there was one weapon he had against these savages, it was not acknowledging their existence.

But then you hear that he can't hear you, you see that he can't see you. You are not here--and you haven't even died yet. You see yourself through his eyes, as The Generic Woman, the skirted symbol on the ladies' room door.

Sometimes she felt invisible.

era preciso deixar de existir para notarem a minha existência.

Você devia ser como esses passaritos que vivem nas costas do hipopótamo: ser precisado pelos grandes, mas não ser visto por ninguém.

Quién es? —No es nadie. —Pero la he visto, he visto a una mujer escondiéndose. —Es lo que le acabo de decir: aquí, una mujer no es nadie...

As the years passed, Ethan noticed that he recognized fewer faces than he had at the beginning, and by the same token an increasing number of residents failed to recognize him. He had never wanted acknowledgment, and thus he was at ease with the changing situation, merely finding it interesting the way so many people now walked past him, or through him, it seemed, as if he were invisible. This was to his liking,