Invisibility Quotes

• When I get into trouble at school I'd like to take an invisibility cloak, drape it over me and sneak out the door. Or I'd like to have a 3 headed-dog because then no one would argue with me.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Dog, School, Invisibility Cloak

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am one of the most irresponsible beings that ever lived. Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you face it, it is a denial. But to whom can I be responsible, and why should I be, when you refuse to see me?

  Ralph Ellison

  Denial, Way, Faces

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.39, Vintage

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• It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.

  Jean Cocteau

  Elegance, Provision, Seems

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• I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.

  Banksy

  People, Details, Forget

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• Silence and invisibility go hand in hand with powerlessness.

  Audre Lorde

  Hands, Silence, Hand In Hand

  Audre Lorde (1997). “The Cancer Journals”

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• That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Power, Magic, Attention

  D.H. Lawrence (2016). “Snake and Other Poems”, p.52, Courier Dover Publications

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• Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.

  Jonathan Swift

  Inspirational, Leadership, Teacher

  "Thoughts on various subjects (Further thoughts on various subjects)". Book by Jonathan Swift, 1745.

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• A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.

  Jean Genet

  Ghetto, Wind, People

  Jean Genet (2003). “Prisoner of Love”, New York Review of Books

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• When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Obscurity, Literature, Worship

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• Our invisibility is the essence of our oppression. And until we eliminate that invisibility, people are going to be able to perpetuate the lies and myths about gay people.

  Jean O'Leary

  Lying, Gay, Essence

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• Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.

  Richard Perle

  Confused, Invisibility Cloak, Law

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• It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.

  David Levithan

  Being Ignored, Would Be, Invisible

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.78, Egmont UK

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• I would say invisibility would be sort of a fun power to have just to see what it was like to move through the world and not be looked at.

  Kevin Bacon

  Fun, Moving, Would Be

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• I have a kind of psychic invisibility. As long as I can stay scared, I can keep people from seeing me. That's what we have to count on.

  Larry Niven

  Psychics, Long, People

  "A Gift From Earth". Book by Larry Niven, 1968.

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• I went over the heads of the things a man reckons desirable. No doubt invisibility made it possible to get them, but it made it impossible to enjoy them when they are got.

  H. G. Wells

  Men, Doubt, Impossible

  H. G. Wells (2012). “The Invisible Man”, p.88, Courier Corporation

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• Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Marriage, Wind

  Twitter post from May 05, 2012

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• Real life is physical. Give me books instead. Give me the invisibility of the contents of books, the thoughts, the ideas, the images. Let me become part of a book. . . . an intertextual being: a book cyborg, or, considering that books aren't cybernetic, perhaps a bibliorg.

  Scarlett Thomas

  Real, Book, Ideas

  Scarlett Thomas (2008). “The End Of Mr. Y”, p.134, Canongate Books

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• Through the ear, we shall enter the invisibility of things.

  Edmond Jabes

  Ears

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• I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of it all, I find that I love.

  Ralph Ellison

  Hurt, Pain, Responsible

  Ralph Ellison (1952). “Invisible Man”

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• What God asks of men, said [Billy] Graham, is faith. His invisibility is the truest test of that faith. To know who sees him, God makes himself unseen.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Men, Unseen, Unbroken

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• Nowadays, 'invisibility' was supposed to be the big problem, but the way I saw it was, all that mattered was to be visible to yourself.

  Emma Donoghue

  Way, Saws, Problem

  Emma Donoghue (1995). “Hood”

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• When you can not find someone, it is because you've been misdirected to look elsewhere

  Jodi Picoult

  Looks, Can Not, Elsewhere

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

  Ralph Ellison

  People, Black History, African American

  Invisible Man prologue (1952)

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• We need to raise our voices a little more, even as they say to us, 'This is so uncharacteristic of you.' Invisibility is not a natural state for anyone.

  Mitsuye Yamada

  Voice, Needs, Littles

  Mitsuye Yamada, Merle Woo, Nellie Wong (2003). “Three Asian American Writers Speak Out on Feminism”, Red Letter Press

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• This monopoly over language is one of the means by which males have ensured their own primacy, and consequently have ensured the invisibility or 'other' nature of females.

  Dale Spender

  Mean, Males, Female

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