Communicating with people all day, either face-to-face or on social media can be exhausting.
So it's natural to want to take a break and go unnoticed for a while. Don't we all wish to escape or blend in with the crowd at times or turn completely invisible?
From J.K. Rowling to H.G. Wells, authors have toyed with the idea of turning their protagonists invisible to make them do things like pranking their neighbors, spying, and even fighting evil.
Invisibility has also been linked with how the world and society treat people. A person may desire to become invisible if they have been treated with extreme neglect and feel like there's nothing they can do to make themselves heard.
In this article, we have compiled the most thought-provoking and profound invisible quotes for you from some of the best authors and educators in the world. These quotes will give you something to think about.
Invisible Life Quotes
Hear what your favorite writers say about life and invisibility in these invisible quotes.
"To sense the invisible and to be able to create it, that is art."
- Hans Hofmann.
"Invisible things are the only realities."
- Edgar Allan Poe.
“If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.”
- 'Invisible Monsters', Chuck Palahniuk.
"There is nothing invisible in this universe! There is only our lack of eyesight!"
- Mehmet Murat Ildan.
"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible."
- Tony Robbins.
“I smiled back and I thought how incredible that was, that they would find the time to smile. There was goodness in the world still, even if you couldn’t always see it.”
- 'Broken Soup', Jenny Valentine.
"Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, ‘Make me feel important.’ Never forget this message when working with people."
- Mary Kay Ash.
"Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation."
- Albert Einstein.
"It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."
- Oscar Wilde.
"Idea for a ghost story: a woman gets old and falls out of time and realizes that she's become invisible."
- 'The Glass Hotel', Emily St.John Mandel.
"There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people."
- Jean Giraudoux.
"I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids— and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."
- Ralph Ellison.
"Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this is Nature he's destroying is this God he's worshiping."
- Hubert Reeves.
"The longer I live, the more deeply am I convinced that that which makes the difference between one person and another-between the weak and the powerful, the great and the insignificant-is energy-invisible determination."
- Charles Buxton.
"We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible."
- Novalis.
"The global Corona conflict has rammed people into trenches. Invisible, lethal, viral weapons have replaced visible whistling bullets and thunderous bombs."
- Erik Pevernagie.
"There is an invisible world out there, and we are living in it."
- Bill Viola.
"If invisible people eat invisible food does invisible wind blow invisible trees?"
- Cecelia Ahern.
“Do the impossible, see the invisible.”
- Herbern Lebumfacil.
"Even though He is invisible, God is personal and He has all the characteristics of a person. He knows, he hears, he feels and he speaks."
- Tanya Luhrmann.
“How can invisible men make themselves more lonely by being seen?”
- 'A Monster Calls', Patrick Ness.
“Many realities hidden behind wall of perception.”
- Toba Beta.
"I'm an agnostic. Sometimes I muse deeply on the forces that are for me invisible. When I am almost close to the idea of God, I feel immediately estranged by the horrors of this world, which he seems to tolerate."
— Stanislaw Ulam.
"I would invite all Latin people to do nothing for about two weeks so you can see who really, really is running the economy I am here to give voice to the invisible."
- Carlos Santana.
“Value is not always visible. Sometimes, it’s invisible and intangible.”
- '17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail: Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure', Pooja Agnihotri.
Invisible Love Quotes
( Invisibility is one of the most popular topics in science-fiction novels.)
These invisible love quotes will give you something to ponder upon.
"People who don't appreciate your presence, only deserve your absence."
- Alexander Auron.
“The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible”
- Vladimir Nabokov.
"There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger."
- Rumi.
"My dream concept is that I have a camera and I am trying to photograph what is essentially invisible. And every once in a while I get a glimpse of her and I grab that picture."
- Leonard Nimoy.
"What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being."
- Jeanette Winterson.
"Moon please lend me your light that someone will me see me."
- Susie Clevenger.
"I blinked mentally and suddenly she was there, standing above me with concern etched in sooty-colored lines on her monochromatic face."
- 'The Shadow Girl', Misty Mount.
"People spot a big black lens, and they worry about what they're doing, or how their hair looks. Nobody see the person holding the camera."
- 'Torn', Erica O'Rourke.
"The world is filled with invisible realities. But, if people do not see or hear, then these realities do not exist."
- William Segal.
"Invisible threads are the strongest ties."
- Friedrich Nietzsche.
"When I am halfway there with a painting, it can occasionally be thrilling ... But it happens very rarely; usually it's agony ... I go to great pains to mask the agony. But the struggle is there. It's the invisible enemy."
- Richard Diebenkorn.
"It was in the shape of a giant, hazy shadow, enveloping me, swallowing me, and digesting me into the unknown. It was my biggest fear and my ultimate fate."
- 'The Shadow Girl', Misty Mount.
"All invisible from where we stand the connections come to pass, and though too strong to comprehend they affect us not the less."
- James Taylor.
"I have been to parties where no one knows who I am, so I am ignored until I introduce myself to someone picked at random. Immediately, word gets round, and I am surrounded by people who tell me they are my biggest fans."
- Ruth Rendell.
"Invisible things are the only realities; invisible things alone are the things that shall remain."
- William Godwin.
"The invisible are always so resolutely invisible until you see them."
- Jonathan Lethem.
"I can hear the almost unhearable sound of the roses singing."
- Mary Oliver.
"I make you see things that aren't really there and you believe every word."
- Genesis Quihuis.
"I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality."
— Max Beckmann.
"The invisible and unseen has always fascinated us humans."
- Priyamvada Natarajan.
"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 heard only tumult and uproar. But now I am all ears listening to the silence and its choirs singing the hymns of time, intoning the praises of the firmament, revealing the secrets of the invisible."
- Khalil Gibran.
"Making those around you feel invisible is the opposite of leadership."
- Margaret Heffernan.
Feeling Invisible Quotes
Why do people feel invisible sometimes? These feeling invisible quotes might give you the answer.
"To do the impossible, you must be able to see the invisible."
- Lane Kiffin.
“Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.”
- George Carlin.
"Some things that are invisible and untouchable can nevertheless be seen and felt."
- Michael Chabon.
"Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others."
- Jonathan Swift.
“You're too good for this world, and because of that the world will eventually crush you.”
- 'Invisible', Paul Auster.
"In prayer the human spirit can send invisible waves to eternity, waves that achieve their goal in front of God."
- Guglielmo Marconi.
"There are more words written under the blackness. You can just barely see that they were words but I can't make them out well enough to read."
- 'The Shadow Girl', Misty Mount.
"A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see."
- Roland Barthes.
“I don't need a cloak to become invisible.”
- Albus Dumbledore, 'Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone', J.K Rowling.
"But the light takes no notice, for its vision is also blinded / It sees nothing but the grandeur of its world and the beauty of its light."
- Brendan Hoover.
"I am an invisible monster, and I am incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse."
- Chuck Palahniuk.
“You see, the strangeness of my case is that now I no longer fear the invisible, I’m terrified by reality.”
- Jean Lorrain.
"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."
- Kelley York.
"You're only as invisible as you feel, imaginary or not."
- Michelle Cuevas.
"When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me."
- Ralph Ellison.
"The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE."
- Winston Churchill.
"Intention is not something you do, but rather a force that exists in the universe as an invisible field of energy, a power that can carry us."
- Wayne Dyer.
"O May I join the choir invisible
Of those immortal dead who live again
In minds made better by their presence: live
In pulses, stirr'd to generosity,
In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn
For miserable aims that end with self,
In thoughts sublime, that pierce the night like stars,
And with their mild persistence urge man's search
To vaster issues."
- George Elliot.
“I'm a nonperson, a shadow, a ghost. Even before the accident I'm not sure that I was a whole person - that's what I'm realizing now. And I'm not sure where the damage begins.”
- 'Before I Fall', Lauren Oliver.
“Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible; and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands.”
- 'The Art Of War', Sun Tzu.
"I both blind them with my beak nose and am their blind spot. But I exist, we exist. They'd like to think I have melted in the pot. But I haven't. We haven't."
— Gloria E. Anzaldúa.
“You'll have to leave my meals on a tray outside the door because I'll be working pretty late on the secret of making myself invisible, which may take me almost until eleven o'clock.”
- S.J Perelman.
