Invisibility Quotes
46 quotes by 40 authors
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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
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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
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There are many lesbians and gay men trapped by their fear into silence and invisibility, and they exist in a dim valley of terror wearing…
— Audre Lorde
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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
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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…
— Ralph Ellison
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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…
— Ralph Ellison
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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
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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
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History is the fruit of power, but power itself is never so transparent that its analysis becomes superfluous. The ultimate mark of power may be…
— Michel-Rolph Trouillot
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By their subjugation of the press, the political powers in America have conferred on themselves the greatest of political blessings -- Gyges' ring of invisibility.…
— Walter Karp
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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…
— Jean O'Leary
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If America is the land of opportunity, a country where perseverance and hard work is rewarded by recognition, then an illegal harbors the opposite ambitions.…
— Bella Pollen
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Through the ear, we shall enter the invisibility of things.
— Edmond Jabes
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By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature woman to invisibility. In fact,…
— Fatema Mernissi
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It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were men, the landholders and merchants men, the political…
— Howard Zinn
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Soaps are one of the few areas on TV that really embrace older women. In drama, there's this ridiculous invisibility for women between the ages…
— Amanda Donohoe
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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
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Are we not Spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an Appearance; and that fade away again into air and Invisibility? Oh, Heaven, it…
— Thomas Carlyle
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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
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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…
— Kevin Bacon
Who Wrote These Invisibility Quotes
40 authors contributed a total of 46 Invisibility Quotes, led by these top contributors: