Quotes About Unnoticed

They were so busy in those weeks with their own homebuilding, repairing, rearranging, improvising, that the great storm that was shaking the world passed overhead unnoticed until the crash of a bough set all the hidden roots again vibrating.

I was sitting on the roof, and she didn't see me. I sit on the roof a lot. People never think to look up.

16 [74] [...] Ships that pass in the night and neither acknowledge or recognize one another [...]

My most favorite thing about London is that nobody recognizes me. It's really... cool.

We could hang around for ten years and nobody would care enough to identify us. Therein lies the horror.

No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.

somehow the first little Caleb had wandered away unnoticed

Beloved, god-touched, great-souled… a saint, even?  The true sort, who moved through the world as silently as fishes, unnoticed by carnal eyes that focused only on outward domination and display.  Never on a small woman in a small town, being kind.  Soul by soul.

Beloved, god-touched, great-souled… a saint, even?  The true sort, who moved through the world as silently as fishes, unnoticed by carnal eyes that focused only on outward domination and display.  Never on a small woman in a small town, being kind.  Soul by soul. And

Many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. [But]that does not lessen their beauty...

There was nothing about him to make anybody pay especial attention to him or speculate about his future.

It's easy to keep to yourself if you hang back and always sit in the last row and slip around corners as if you were a ghost.

You don't notice the dead leaving when they really choose to leave you. You're not meant to. At most you feel them as a whisper or the wave of a whisper undulating down. I would compare it to a woman in the back of a lecture hall or theater whom no one notices until she slips out. Then only those near the door themselves, like Grandma Lynn, notice; to the rest it is like an unexplained breeze in a closed room.

She had no idea how George delighted in her funny ways, or watched her through the window as she stood outside, finishing an apple or nibbling sunflower seeds. She did not register his glances, his quick inventory of her clothes, his pleasure in her face and wrists. She did not know his heart.

Most people took no more notice of the profoundly deaf than they did of their own shadows. They

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

I walk down the street and people don't go, 'my God, there he is.' I lead as normal a life as you can lead in New York City.

Our blessings are the least heeded, because the most common events of life.

My life is like a lone, forgotten Q-Tip in the second-to-last drawer.

Most of the pathetic scenes in almost everybody's life are scenes unnoted by anyone and totally disregarded by the person in question.

My right hand hasn't seen my left hand in thirty years.

I wish I were a white crayon, that way no one could use me.

Housework is something you do that nobody notices until you don't do it.

Far better, he decides, to keep one's presence small, inconspicuous.