Invisibility Quotes
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![James Patterson](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1468347205i/3780._UY200_CR25,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I want to do it too!" (sitting motionless)
Nudge: "Nope, you stand out like a fart in a church."
Max: (muttering) "Appropriately enough."
Iggy: "What about me?" (stands still)
Max: "No, you're visible."
Iggy: "Am not!"
Max: (throws a pinecone at him) "Could I do that if I wouldn't see you?”
― The Final Warning
Nudge: "Nope, you stand out like a fart in a church."
Max: (muttering) "Appropriately enough."
Iggy: "What about me?" (stands still)
Max: "No, you're visible."
Iggy: "Am not!"
Max: (throws a pinecone at him) "Could I do that if I wouldn't see you?”
― The Final Warning
![Virginia Woolf](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1419596619i/6765._UX200_CR0,36,200,200_.jpg)
“All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
![Banksy](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1250793052i/28811._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
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![Marilynne Robinson](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1596051677i/7491._UX200_CR0,5,200,200_.jpg)
“It was a source of both terror and comfort to me then that I often seemed invisible — incompletely and minimally existent, in fact. It seemed to me that I made no impact on the world, and that in exchange I was privileged to watch it unawares.”
― Housekeeping
― Housekeeping
![Kelley York](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1714746958i/4984908._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I can physically see the effort it takes for him to open his mouth and force out the words. He's spent so much of his life not being seen, not being heard, that he's forgotten how to realize anything he says does hold weight and is important.”
― Suicide Watch
― Suicide Watch
![Alan Bradley](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1256021843i/1074866._UX200_CR0,38,200,200_.jpg)
“…because I was only eleven years old, I was wrapped in the best cloak of invisibility in the world.”
― A Red Herring Without Mustard
― A Red Herring Without Mustard
![Emily St. John Mandel](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1576606299i/2786093._UY200_CR50,0,200,200_.jpg)
“(Idea for a ghost story: a woman gets old and falls out of time and realizes that she’s become invisible.)”
― The Glass Hotel
― The Glass Hotel
![Patricia A. McKillip](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1220752490i/25.jpg)
“Do you become in visible?'
'No. I'm there, if you know how to look. I stand between the place you look at and the place you see. Behind what you expect to see. If you expect to see me, you do. I listen in places where no one expects me to be.”
― Alphabet of Thorn
'No. I'm there, if you know how to look. I stand between the place you look at and the place you see. Behind what you expect to see. If you expect to see me, you do. I listen in places where no one expects me to be.”
― Alphabet of Thorn
![Will Advise](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1452357562i/14842679._UX200_CR0,61,200,200_.jpg)
“The way to be invisible - is to truly be imaginary. But since you cannot imagine yourself, you have to clone your imagination into being an image of yourself. Imagine that.”
― Nothing is here...
― Nothing is here...
![Will Advise](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1452357562i/14842679._UX200_CR0,61,200,200_.jpg)
“Silence is the invisibility of talking. I'd take half an argument over half a silence any day. And I'd take peace and quiet over a full-blown argument any other day, unless it's Tuesday.”
― Nothing is here...
― Nothing is here...
“Invisibility--there are things we can't see now, that are there, that are embedded, that it really takes time in order to be able to see. There are many ghosts that are lurking around and lingering through us that takes the technology of another generation or so in order to uncover and show what those stains and strains and perceived flaws really we're building towards”
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![James Thurber](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1183238729i/16839._UX200_CR0,29,200,200_.jpg)
“It didn't work," said the King. "The cloak of invisibility didn't work."
"Yes, it did," said the Royal Wizard.
"No, it didn't," said the King. "I kept bumping into things, the same as ever."
"The cloak is supposed to make you invisible," said the Royal Wizard. "It is not supposed to keep you from bumping into things."
"All I know is, I kept bumping into things," said the King.”
― Many Moons
"Yes, it did," said the Royal Wizard.
"No, it didn't," said the King. "I kept bumping into things, the same as ever."
"The cloak is supposed to make you invisible," said the Royal Wizard. "It is not supposed to keep you from bumping into things."
"All I know is, I kept bumping into things," said the King.”
― Many Moons
![Amy S. Foster](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1462230376i/273567._UX200_CR0,24,200,200_.jpg)
“When she was younger, Ellie used to believe that her invisibility was a metaphor for something else, assuming it was her awkwardness, her fear of saying or doing the wrong thing. She had thought as she grew older, more confident, wiser, she would outgrow this not being noticed. But lately, Ellie really felt like a ghost. She would be in a place, but not really there. People looked through her, past her. Her invisibility had taken on a life of its own. It wasn't a metaphor anymore, or a defense mechanism or eccentric little tic. She was actually invisible. At least, that was how it felt to her.
Ellie wondered whether her parents were to blame. They were, after all, children of the sixties who had met at a love-in or lie-down or something of that sort, about which Ellie knew little except that a lot of drugs had been involved. Could Ellie's lack of physical presence be a genetic mutation caused by acid or mushrooms? Ellie grew up on their hippie commune among the highest, densest redwoods, where they dug their hands deep into the soil and grew their own food, made their own clothes. So perhaps it is there that the mystery is solved. Ellie indeed was a child of the earth, a baby of beiges and taupes and browns and muted greens. Nature doesn't scream and shout, demanding constant attention, and neither did Ellie. Maybe her invisibility was just her blending right in.”
― When Autumn Leaves
Ellie wondered whether her parents were to blame. They were, after all, children of the sixties who had met at a love-in or lie-down or something of that sort, about which Ellie knew little except that a lot of drugs had been involved. Could Ellie's lack of physical presence be a genetic mutation caused by acid or mushrooms? Ellie grew up on their hippie commune among the highest, densest redwoods, where they dug their hands deep into the soil and grew their own food, made their own clothes. So perhaps it is there that the mystery is solved. Ellie indeed was a child of the earth, a baby of beiges and taupes and browns and muted greens. Nature doesn't scream and shout, demanding constant attention, and neither did Ellie. Maybe her invisibility was just her blending right in.”
― When Autumn Leaves
![Gerhard Richter](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1549557595i/45037._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“It makes no sense to expect or claim to 'make the invisible visible', or the unknown known, or the unthinkable thinkable. We can draw conclusions about the invisible; we can postulate its existence with relative certainty. But all we can represent is an analogy, which stands for the invisible but is not it.”
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![Jarod Kintz](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1460877358i/4157885._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“I swim like I’m water. I’m like water in water, and that’s how I move so invisibly.”
― Eggs, they’re not just for breakfast
― Eggs, they’re not just for breakfast
![J.R.R. Tolkien](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1648968349i/656983._UX200_CR0,44,200,200_.jpg)
“He wanted it because it was a ring of power, and if you slipped that ring on your finger, you were invisible; only in the full sunlight could you be seen, and then only by your shadow, and that would be shaky and faint.”
― The Hobbit
― The Hobbit
![J.R.R. Tolkien](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1648968349i/656983._UX200_CR0,44,200,200_.jpg)
“It seemed that the ring he had was a magic ring: it made you invisible! He had heard of such things, of course, in old old tales; but it was hard to believe that he really had found one, by accident.”
― The Hobbit
― The Hobbit
![Ehsan Sehgal](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1531214770i/15105695._UX200_CR0,15,200,200_.jpg)
“Invisibility initiates two doctrines in itself; for one who is curious to discover or not interested in focusing upon it.”
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![Justin Cronin](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1680289530i/45315._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“She took off her glasses and put them in my hand. 'You know, without these, I can't see anything. What's funny is that it's like no one else can see me either. Isn't it strange? I kind of feel invisible.”
― The City of Mirrors
― The City of Mirrors
“It was at that point that it hit me like a truck that this man was not presently rational and that I was entirely at his mercy. I became acutely aware of the fact that he was not going to listen to anything that I had to say. This may sound peculiar, given that I was the focus of his brutal actions, but the feeling that came over me then was one of sheer invisibility. I realized that who I was, my personality, my character, my identity, were totally irrelevant to him and completely subsumed by his. It registered then that Robert was intending to rape me and kill me, and that there was nothing that I could do to stop him.”
― One Hour in Paris: A True Story of Rape and Recovery
― One Hour in Paris: A True Story of Rape and Recovery
“Poverty, I salute you. Through
your grace I have become a magician.
For I can see the world, but none see me.”
― Simhasana Dvatrimsika: Thirty-Two Tales of the Throne of Vikramaditya
your grace I have become a magician.
For I can see the world, but none see me.”
― Simhasana Dvatrimsika: Thirty-Two Tales of the Throne of Vikramaditya
![Lynne Ewing](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1255315463i/33461._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“She relaxed her mind and let her body dissolve. Bone and tendon quivered until her arms, hands, and fingers looked like black specks waving in the dark. Soon she was free from gravity and drifting up the stairs.
But as she twisted through the gloom, something foreign tangled with her invisible body. It wove through her with a furry tickle, leaving a pungent scent of decay. It didn't have the sensation of steam, dust, or smog. She curled back, trying to escape the sickening smell, but whatever it was moved with her, sinuous like a snake, coiling around her. She twirled, then sprang forward, but it held her. The air became thick and gluey, her cells no longer able to pull in oxygen through osmosis.”
― Moon Demon
But as she twisted through the gloom, something foreign tangled with her invisible body. It wove through her with a furry tickle, leaving a pungent scent of decay. It didn't have the sensation of steam, dust, or smog. She curled back, trying to escape the sickening smell, but whatever it was moved with her, sinuous like a snake, coiling around her. She twirled, then sprang forward, but it held her. The air became thick and gluey, her cells no longer able to pull in oxygen through osmosis.”
― Moon Demon
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