Quotes About Unacknowledged

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

If you'd asked me, it was only a matter of time before something like this happened. But of course, nobody had asked me.

Everything stayed hidden […] it was all secret – known by anyone who cared to know, but unacknowledged, like a priest's feverish brightness around adolescent boys, or the beatings Mrs Wilson endured on those Saturdays when Dumfermline lost at home(p. 83-84)

I was backing into the picture I wanted to see by noticing what wasn't in it. It was like trying to understand a photography by studying the negative. I found myself focusing not on what people remembered, focused on, and said, but on what they forgot, disregarded, and did not say. I was backing into the deep story, as I am calling it, and noticing what, in human consciousness, it crowded out.

I went under the radar my whole life.

I personally tend to be drawn to stories that aren't paid much attention to, or stories that aren't on people's radar.

The strange life of a coaster - even though its right there, people conveniently choose to ignore it.

I feel like the tight end position hasn't been appreciated.

Her moral training, both at the schools she attended and at home, was negative in nature, prohibitive in intent, and almost entirely sexual. The sexuality, however, was indirect and unacknowledged; therefore it suffused every other part of her education, which received most of its energy from that recessive and unspoken moral force. She learned that she would have duties toward her husband and family and that she must fulfill them.

I really never get recognized at all for anything.

The greatest form of genius is that which isn't noticed

Se estaba despidiendo y ni siquiera lo sabía.

I'm not a household name.

The public is often accused of being disconnected from its military, but frankly it's disconnected from just about everything. Farming, mineral extraction, gas and oil production, bulk cargo transport, logging, fishing, infrastructure construction—all the industries that keep the nation going are mostly unacknowledged by the people who depend on them most.

This was men's moral code in the outer world, a code that told them to act on the premise of one another's weakness, deceit and stupidity, and this was the pattern of their lives, this struggle through a fog of the pretended and unacknowledged, this belief that facts are not solid or final, this state where, denying any form to reality, men stumble through life, unreal and unformed, and die having never been born.

A lot of what happens in the world is full-on crazy and doesn't get reported on.

I've all but been your slave for the past three years, Keelie. You just never noticed.

Ethical loneliness is what happens when wrongs are compounded by going cruelly unacknowledged.

None will thank me for this, nor anyone will remember. -Istak

No me reconociste, ni entonces ni en ningún otro momento, nunca me has reconocido. ¿Cómo te puedo describir, querido, la decepción de aquel instante? Por primera vez fui consciente de estar predestinada a que no me reconocieras durante toda mi vida

No one else knows I'm alive, which means they won't notice when I'm gone.

Oh we're not loved. We're not even hated. We're only just sweetly ignored.

I think I could die without its being noticed.

I think there's a tremendous amount of unacknowledged hostility in American culture.