Invisibility Quotes

46 quotes by 40 authors

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
When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction. — D. H. Lawrence
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
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
Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused. — Richard Perle
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
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
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
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
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
Through the ear, we shall enter the invisibility of things. — Edmond Jabes
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
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
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
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
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
It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed. — Jean Cocteau
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

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