Invisible Man Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.