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Quotes About Visibility

Incited. That was it, the guidingprinciple of her life in Copenhagen. She was incited to make an impression, a voluptous impression. She was incited to inflame attention and admiration. She was dressed for it, subtly schooled for it. And after a little while she gave herself up wholly to the fascinating business of being seen, gaped at, desired.
~ Nella Larsen
That's it?!! You threw a blanket on her? She's not invisible, you dumb bitch!
~ Unknown
Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.
~ Noel Coward
And what people see the most is his silence, because some kinds of silence is actually visible.
~ Unknown
It's a feature of flashlights that they're only visible in the daytime.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
They come to see; they come that they themselves may be seen.
~ Ovid
The obvious is the hardest thing of all to point out to anyone who has genuinely lost sight of it.
~ Unknown
I'd rather be looked over than overlooked.
~ Pamela Anderson
Where there are no visible conflicts, there is no freedom," Montesquieu said.
~ Pascal Bruckner
Fact is, blatant heterosexuals are all over the place. Supermarkets, movies, on your job, in church, in books, on television every day and night, every place - even in gay bars. & they want gay men & women to go hide in the closets - So to you straight folks i say - Sure, i'll go if you go too but i'm polite so - after you.
~ Unknown
The best part of being married is that now when we walk down the street, people won't just see two guys and a kid, they'll have to see a FAMILY.
~ Unknown
When most folks think about the problems of growing up in the hood, they think about what it must feel like to be poor, or hungry, or to have your lights cut off. The struggle nobody talk about is what it feel like to be invisible, or to know in your heart the nobody cares. Mama didn't want to be famous, she wanted to be seen.
~ Unknown
She believed the key element to patriotism was display; that it was all about being seen to support a cause, being seen to wave a flag.
~ Unknown
There was once an invisible man who had grown tired of being unseen. It was not that he was actually invisible. It was that people had become used to not seeing him. And if no one sees you, are you really there at all?"
~ Patrick Ness
Conor was no longer invisible. They all saw him now. But he was further away than ever.
~ Patrick Ness
And if no one sees you, are you really there at all?
~ Patrick Ness
He was no longer invisible. They all saw him now. But he was further away than ever.
~ Patrick Ness
Never invisible again , the monster said, finally letting up, its huge branch-like fists curled tight as a clap of thunder. It turned to Conor. But there are harder things than being invisible , it said.
~ Patrick Ness
How can a parson be wrong-thinking but good-hearted? How can invisible men make themselves more lonely by being seen?
~ Patrick Ness
I'm sorry for telling about your mom, read the first line. I miss being your friend, read the second. Are you okay? read the third. I see you, read the fourth, with the I underlined about a hundred times.
~ Patrick Ness
There are worse things than being invisible, the monster had said, and it was right. Conor was no longer invisible. They all saw him now. But he was further away than ever.
~ Patrick Ness
How can invisible men make themselves more lonely by being seen?
~ Patrick Ness
C'era una volta un uomo invisibile, che s'era stufato di non essere visto da nessuno. Non che fosse davvero invisibile. Il fatto era che la gente era abituato a non vederlo. E se nessuno ti vede, esisti davvero?
~ Patrick Ness
The Third Tale There was once an invisible man who had grown tired of being unseen. It was not that he was actually invisible. It was that people had become used to not seeing him. And if no one sees you, are you really there at all? And then one day the invisible man decided, I will make them see me. He called for a monster.
~ Patrick Ness