Quotes About Invisibility

Why art thou silent and invisible, Father of Jealousy?

Never seek to tell thy loveLove that never told can be;For the gentle wind does moveSilently, invisibly.I told my love, I told my love,I told her all my heart;Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears—Ah, she doth depart.Soon as she was gone from meA traveler came bySilently, invisibly—Oh, was no deny.

You always was a skinny child but turn sideways you just ain't there atall.

The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.

Lost in the corn rows, I remember feeling just another stalk, and thus this country takes me over in the way I occupy myself when I am well . . . completely - to the edge of both my house and body. No one notices, when they walk by, that I am brimming in the doorways.

I also realized that there were lots of unacknowledged theater forms going on all around. Our lives are filled with performances that have been so woven into our daily routine that the artificial and performative aspect has slipped into invisibility.

Even though she was sitting next to the man, she couldn't believe he had noticed her. It felt to her as if no one could see her. She hardly felt real.

The thing about Walmart was that even a man like Dwayne Brewer could go unnoticed. People pushed their buggies with dead-eyed stares, everything sliding by in the periphery. Consumerism scaled this large had a way of camouflaging class.

L'invisibilità è la qualità fondamentale di un voltapagine: in scena, egli deve cercare di cancellare il più possibile la sua presenza, dando l'impressione che le pagine si voltino da sole. Il voltapagine ha il raro privilegio di sentire un pianista quasi come sente se stesso: sentire il suo canto sommesso, i gemiti che di quando in quando gli sfuggono tra i denti, lo schiocco sordo delle unghie contro i tasti. E non solo sentirlo, ma vederlo; studiarlo.

It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.

The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

Oh my God, can you see me? I thought I was wearing my invisibility cloak.

God never cease to exist because His invisibility is doubted.

Good design, when done well, should be invisible.

The world knows nothing of its greatest men.

These are rules I've picked up along the way to help me remain invisible when I'm writing a book, to help me show rather than tell what's taking place in the story.

Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come.

I went to buy some camouflage trousers the other day but I couldn't find any.

I wonder how Admat can be everywhere. Is he in my sandal? Or is he my sandal itself? Why would a god bother to be a sandal? Does he wear shoes or sandals himself, invisible ones?

In other words, he was the tree in the forest that silently fell--when no one was around to be crushed.

They were not mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, they were absent in the Constitution and they were invisible in the new political democracy. They were the women of early America.

To pretend angels do not exist because they are invisible is to believe we never sleep because we don't see ourselves sleeping.

A lot of times I blend in a little bit easier because I'm not like a basketball player who's going to stand out because of his height.