43 Invisible Quotes Unveiled

In a world often dominated by visual impressions and tangible realities, the concept of invisibility holds a unique allure. Whether it’s the unseen emotions that shape our experiences or the intangible influences that guide our decisions, the unseen plays a crucial role in our lives. This curated collection of the top 43 invisible quotes dives deep into the profound and often overlooked aspects of invisibility, shedding light on those hidden inspirations that subtly craft our human experience. Join us as we unveil wisdom that exists beyond the visible spectrum, inviting you to ponder the beauty of what lies beneath the surface.

1. “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

2. “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

3. “If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.” - Chuck Palahniuk

4. “O may I join the choir invisibleOf those immortal dead who live againIn minds made better by their presence; liveIn pulses stirred to generosity,In deeds of daring rectitude...” - George Eliot

5. “After a seven days' march through woodland, the traveler directed toward Baucis cannot see the city and yet he has arrived. The slender stilts that rise from the ground at a great distance from one another and are lost above the clouds support the city. You climb them with ladders. On the ground the inhabitants rarely show themselves: having already everything they need up there, they prefer not to come down. Nothing of the city touches the earth except those long flamingo legs on which it rests and, when the days are sunny, a pierced, angular shadow that falls on the foilage."There are three hypotheses about the inhabitants of Baucis: that they hate the earth; that they respect it so much they avoid all contact; that they love it as it was before they existed and with spyglasses and telescopes aimed downward they never tire of examining it, leaf by leaf, stone by stone, ant by ant, contemplating with fascination their own absence.” - Italo Calvino

6. “I don't need a cloak to become invisible.” - J.K. Rowling

7. “You see, the strangeness of my case is that now I no longer fear the invisible, I’m terrified by reality.” - Jean Lorrain

8. “That there were other worlds, invisible, unknown, beyond imagination even, was a revelation to him.” - Kim Edwards

9. “If invisible people eat invisible food does invisible wind blow invisible trees?” - Cecelia Ahern

10. “When our poor, faultily sensitive vision can perceive a thing, we say that it is visible. When the nerves of touch can feel it, we say that it is tangible. Yet I tell you there are beings intangible to our physical sense, yet whose presence is felt by the spirit, and invisible to our eyes merely because those organs are not attuned to the light as reflected from their bodies. But light passed through the screen, which we are about to use has a wavelength novel to the scientific world, and by it you shall see with the eyes of the flesh that which has been invisible since life began. Have no fear! ("Unseen - Unfeared")” - Francis Stevens

11. “I was under the impression that I warned you that in London country ways will not do, Frederica!”“You did!” she retorted. “And although I can’t say that I paid much heed to your advice it so happens that I am accompanied today by my aunt!”“Who adds invisibility to her other accomplishments!” - Georgette Heyer

12. “There are other beings live in between interval rhythms of our consciousness.” - Toba Beta

13. “Many realities hidden behind wall of perception.” - Toba Beta

14. “The good enemy accompanies you on the journey,but you will never reach your destination with him.” - Toba Beta

15. “People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. 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

16. “I smiled back and I thoughthow 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.” - Jenny Valentine

17. “You'll have to leave my meals on a tray outside the door because I'll beworking pretty late on the secret of making myself invisible, which may take me almost until eleven o'clock.” - S.J. Perelman

18. “Even without being believed, magic can change things. It moves invisibly through the air, dissolving the usual ways of seeing, allowing new ways to creep in, secretly, quietly, like a stray cat sliding thought the bushes.” - Janet Taylor Lisle

19. “I don't like being rumbled, I like to be invisible.” - Sebastian Faulks

20. “You can just sit in here, impervious and invisible. So invisible youmight even forget yourself.” - Charles Yu

21. “They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality.” - Edgar Rice Burroughs

22. “But then you hear that he can't hear you, you see that he can't see you. You are not here--and you haven't even died yet. You see yourself through his eyes, as The Generic Woman, the skirted symbol on the ladies' room door.” - Melissa Bank

23. “For a long time he had been white smoke. He did not realize that until he left the hospital, because white smoke had no consciousness of itself. It faded into the white world of their bed sheets and walls; it was sucked away by the words of doctors who tried to talk to the invisible scattered smoke... They saw his outline but they did not realize it was hollow inside.” - Leslie Marmon Silko

24. “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.” - Erica O'Rourke

25. “I'm convinced the true history of our time isn't what we read in newspapers or books...True history is almost invisible. It flows like an underground spring. It takes place in the shadows, and in silence, George. And only a chosen few know what that history is.” - Félix J. Palma

26. “My friends tell me I am strong, decisive, and wise. What a joke. Where is my strength tonight? Where is my wisdom? Ironically, they tell me I am ‘so open’. Me, who has so many secrets that I have never shared. The irony would be funny if it wasn't so sad. Their blindness to my true self makes me feel invisible. Not in the way that a spirit or ghost is invisible, for I am most definitely flesh, blood, sinew, and bone. I even have a mind that works nimble and fast, and a mouth that speaks reasonably eloquently, when I feel I have something worthwhile to say. No, I’m invisible because the people who populate my life either do not, or cannot, see the real me. Of course, that is but another irony. I know much of my invisibility is of my own doing, and that is the last joke on myself: that which I seek is also that which I fear.” - Lily Velden

27. “what he sought was always something lying ahead, and even if it was a matter of the past it was a past that changed gradually as he advanced on his journey, because the traveller's past changes according to the route he has followed: not the immediate past, that is, to which each day that goes by adds a day, but the more remote past. Arriving at each new city, the traveller finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.” - Italo Calvino

28. “Journeys to relive your past?' was the Khan's question at this point, a question which could also have been formulated: 'Journeys to recover your future?'And Marco's answer was: 'Elsewhere is a negative mirror. The traveller recognizes the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and willnever have.” - Italo Calvino

29. “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.” - Lauren Oliver

30. “Myths have a way of bringing what is unconscious to the surface and putting a face on what we cannot see.” - Terry Tempest Williams

31. “Clarice, the glorious city, has a tormented history. Several times it decayed, then burgeoned again, always keeping the first Clarice as an unparalleled model of every splendor, compared to which the city’s present state can only cause more sighs at every fading of the stars.” - Italo Calvino

32. “Each new Clarice, compact as a living body with its smells and its breath, shows off, like a gem, what remains of the ancient Clarices, fragmentary and dead.” - Italo Calvino

33. “Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds.” - Dejan Stojanovic

34. “There are no clear borders, Only merging invisible to the sight.” - Dejan Stojanovic

35. “Take a little look at the life of Miss Always Invisible Look a little closer, I really really want you to put yourself in her shoes Take another look at the face of Miss Always Invisible Look a little harder and maybe then you will see why she waits for the day When you'll ask her her name” - Marie Digby

36. “The invisible are always so resolutely invisible, until you see them.” - Jonathan Lethem

37. “Burying your head in the sand does not make you invisible it only leads to suffocation.” - Wayne Gerard Trotman

38. “People give flowers as presents because flowers contain the true meaning of love. Anyone tries to possess a flower will have to watch its beauty fading. But if you simply look at a flower on a field, you will keep it forever, because the flower is part of the evening and the sunset and the smell of damp earth and the clouds on the horizon.” - Paulo Coelho

39. “Not being liked was so much worse than being invisible.” - Rebecca Donovan

40. “No one answers. It feels as if I’m not there, as if I’m as invisible as the nicotine they’re inhaling.” - Ida Løkås

41. “When we came to America, though, we didn't know what the right thing was. Here we lived with no map. We became invisible, the people who swam in between other people's lives, bussing dishes, delivering groceries. What was wrong?We didn't know. The most important thing, Abba said, was not to stick out. Don't let them see you. But I think it hurt him, to hide so much.” - Marina Budhos

42. “To hear never-heard sounds, To see never-seen colors and shapes, To try to understand the imperceptible Power pervading the world; To fly and find pure ethereal substances That are not of matter But of that invisible soul pervading reality. To hear another soul and to whisper to another soul; To be a lantern in the darkness Or an umbrella in a stormy day; To feel much more than know. To be the eyes of an eagle, slope of a mountain; To be a wave understanding the influence of the moon; To be a tree and read the memory of the leaves; To be an insignificant pedestrian on the streets Of crazy cities watching, watching, and watching. To be a smile on the face of a woman And shine in her memory As a moment saved without planning.” - Dejan Stojanovic

43. “Memory shimmers as a crystal lakethat reflects all things invisible.” - Harley King