Invisible Man Quotes

Perhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies the danger of losing a sense of who you are.

The truth is the light and the light is the truth.

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

They could laugh at him but they couldn’t ignore him.

That I am nobody but myself.

And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone’s way but my own.

After years of trying to adopt the opinions of others I finally rebelled. I am an invisible man.

It is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass.

And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived. That goes for societies as well as for individuals.

Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn’t now, I couldn’t give much thought to love.

Power doesn’t have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

For, like almost everyone else in our country, I started out with my share of optimism. I believed in hard work and progress and action, but now, after first being ‘for’ society and then ‘against’ it, I assign myself no rank or any limit, and such an attitude is very much against the trend of the times.

I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unloveable in it, for it is all part of me.

When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.

Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

The world is a possibility if only you’ll discover it.

What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?

When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.

I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I’ve tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied.

I remember that I’m invisible and walk softly so as not awake the sleeping ones. Sometimes it is best not to awaken them; there are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.

I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.

Play the game, but don’t believe in it – that much you owe yourself … Play the game, but raise the ante, my boy. Learn how it operates, learn how you operate.

Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many.