quotes about Invisibility
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Oh my God, can you see me? I thought I was wearing my invisibility cloak.
-- Cate TiernanSource : Cate Tiernan (2012). “Darkness Falls (Immortal Beloved Book Two): Immortal Beloved: Book Two”, p.450, Hachette UK
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We overlook how much in our lives is invisible; love, for instance; thought, God, the future, time, faith, hope and even the electricity that brings us light.
-- Dorothy Gilman -
Through the ear, we shall enter the invisibility of things.
-- Edmond Jabes -
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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The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line and, later, the service economy.
-- George PackerSource : "Where Have All the Workers Gone?" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. February 24, 2014.
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what is seen must always be the outcome of much that is unseen.
-- H. A. GuerberSource : H. A. Guerber (1909). “Myths and Legends of the Middle Ages”, p.14, Courier Corporation
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Institutional practices, it seems, perpetuate themselves mostly by their invisibility.
-- James L. Farmer, Jr. -
Reveal yourself, mage! Only a coward stays cloaked in invisibility.
-- Kristen BritainSource : Kristen Britain (2004). “First Rider's Call: Book Two of Green Rider”, p.182, Penguin
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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 -
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 -
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 -
I go to a Catholic school and I'm telling you: invisibility = eternal damnation. You can take it to the bank.
-- Patrick Carman -
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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 -
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 -
God cloaks himself in invisibility and leaves the world to guess, hope, and kill over his identity and existence? This is love?
-- C. J. Anderson -
It's fair to say that black folks operate under a cloud of invisibility - this too is part of the work, is indeed central to [my photographs]... This invisibility - this erasure out of the complex history of our life and time - is the greatest source of my longing.
-- Carrie Mae Weems -