Quotes About Unnoticed

I'm like the wallpaper, there but barely noticed.

Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.

We need a witness to our lives. There's a billion people on the planet... I mean, what does any one life really mean? But in a marriage, you're promising to care about everything. The good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things... all of it, all of the time, every day. You're saying 'Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. Your life will not go un-witnessed because I will be your witness'.

When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.

Sometimes she felt invisible.

She wasn't hideous or shameful to look at, but she had prematurely reached the stage in a woman's life when no one noticed her entering or leaving a room.

Compared to the universe, we are like a drop of water in the ocean. We come and pass unnoticed; just like a chilly wind.

I am more than a face and a body. I am Hira. But no one wishes to know Hira.

Everyone is invisible to someone.

There were advantages to being ignored by the king.

They don't listen to me, they don't hear me, they don't see me.

Around the windows and above the doors were a multitude of small pictures, which you grow accustomed to regard as spots on the wall, and which you never look at.

And Petersburg was left without Akakii Akakievich, as though he had never lived there. A being disappeared, and was hidden, who was protected by none, dear to none, interesting to none, who never even attracted to himself the attention of an observer of nature, who omits no opportunity of thrusting a pin through a common fly, and examining it under the microscope...

Being disappeared who was protected by none, dear to none, interesting to none, and who never even attracted to himself the attention of those students of human nature who omit no opportunity of thrusting a pin through a common fly, and examining it under the microscope.

Se llevaron el cadáver y le dieron sepultura. Y San Petersburgo se quedó sin Akaki Akákievich, como si nunca hubiera existido. Desapareció para siempre ese ser a quien nadie defendió, por quien nadie profesó afecto ni mostró el menor interés ; ni siquiera despertó la curiosidad de los naturalistas; siempre dispuestos a clavar un alfiler a una simple mosca para observarla a un microscopio.

The age of disappearing women. It had been going on forever. Thousands of us vanished, with not a single police officer searching. Not a word from the newspapers. Only our long absences and quiet returns. If we ever returned at all.

One of the luxuries of being obscure is that one no longer has a status to maintain.

She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed--necessary but scarcely noticed.

Perhaps tiny signs reveal this sort of cosmic event to us, but we don't notice them either

The problem with tradition is that it can cause even an error of great magnitude to go unnoticed

The world is full of remarkable people whose amazing work often goes unnoticed or doesn't get the attention it deserves.

There's a deal of goodness that the world never sees," said Tussler in conclusion, "as there's a deal of viciousness it never guesses.

He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.

But when Samuel Berkovic finally found the answer to the question of what had actually caused the problem, no one noticed. Not a single newspaper, magazine, or radio or television program carried the story.