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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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 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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• 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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• Modesty is invisibility... Never forget it. To be seen - to be seen - is to be... penetrated. What you must be girls, is impenetrable.

  Margaret Atwood

  Girl, Fear, Modesty

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• We battled in secret, undeclared, and after a while I no longer fought back because I never won. The only defense was flight, invisibility.

  Margaret Atwood

  Secret, Defense, Flight

  Margaret Atwood (1987). “The edible woman ; Surfacing ; Lady oracle”, Treasure Press

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• The boy, who did everything well and with a natural unslumped grace the wraith himself had always lacked, and whom the wraith had been so terribly eager to see and hear and let him (the son) know he was seen and heard, the son had become a steadily more and more hidden boy, toward the wraith's life's end; and no one else in the wraith and the boy's nuclear family would see or acknowledge this, the fact that the graceful and marvelous boy was disappearing, right before their eyes. They looked but did not see his invisibility.

  David Foster Wallace

  Eye, Son, Boys

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• The condition of visibility as it relates to black people was crucial. Connected to that, I've always been interested in science fiction and horror films and was acutely aware of the political and social implications of Ralph Ellison's description of invisibility as it relates to black people, as opposed to the kind of retinal invisibility that H.G. Wells described in his novel Invisible Man.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Men, People, Political

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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  And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Le Petit Prince ch. 21 (1943)

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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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