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Quotes About Unnoticed

As I say, after action, you are so gone no one will ever know you existed.
~ Stephen Hunter
The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen....
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupér y
...for life is magic, magic is life, the left-over life we don't even notice we're living.
~ Kate Griffin
He had the kind of face that became instantly invisible in crowds.
~ Jojo Moyes
They spoke as if I weren't there.
~ Jojo Moyes
When is nothing special the most important thing? When it's the only thing. Where we come from, beauty is so ordinary that we don't even know we are beautiful.
~ Bennett Madison
I can walk around relatively anonymously.
~ Teresa Palmer
I'm not a household name.
~ J. J. Cale
The problem started long before that, of course. Problems always start long before you really, really see them.
~ Gillian Flynn
I am a forgettable leaf on a tree.
~ Gregory Maguire
The clothes most worn by people are the clothes least commented on by the press.
~ Suzy Menkes
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered—either by themselves or by others." -Mark Twain
~ Sean Patrick
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered.
~ Sean Patrick
The ones who stay unnoticed often see the most. They live out other people's lives, since their own are so unremarkable...
~ Setona Mizushiro
You have made it abundantly clear in the past that my wishes and my feelings mean nothing to you.
~ Mary Balogh
This, I was coming to realize, was the nature of the presidency: Sometimes your most important work involved the stuff nobody noticed.
~ Barack Obama
It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings, and a fat white body with black spots running down it like a snowman's coal buttons. No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
It's surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
He returned a moment later, alone, and, after taking a moment to catch his breath, resumed his rightful place on the bench without looking at anyone else in the room. Everyone returned to what they were doing: his affiliates, because they didn't care; the civilians, because they were unnerved. It was as though nothing had happened, though the pervading silence indicated that indeed something had.
~ Barry Eisler
Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
~ Boris Pasternak
Don't mind me, Flamepaw thought, resentful and embarrassed all at once. Go on talking about me, just as if I were a . . . a tree stump!
~ Erin Hunter
But you never got hungry for me. You continued to ignore me." GOD'S Decree. 7-8
~ Eugene H. Peterson
A lot of what happens in the world is full-on crazy and doesn't get reported on.
~ Shane Smith