Not only are animals unable to avail themselves of language to assert their own rights, but many fewer humans have a clear sense of kinship with animals than have a clear sense of kinship with other humans. Among beings with subjective states of awareness, animals are the untouchable caste, those whom human others would rather not acknowledge, let alone render assistance.
Gary SteinerTags: power animals morality silence tragedy oppression violence invisibility kinship speciesism
There are no clear borders,
Only merging invisible to the sight.
Tags: wisdom poetry literature invisible quotes thoughts invisibility sight clear border borders poetry-quotes quotes-to-live-by merging literature-quotes dejan-stojanovic circling clear-borders
If she understood the difference between referring to me as "the gay guy" and using my name, the knowledge was lost between her vapid gaze and her single AAA-battery brain.
John GoodeTags: schools gay reaction invisibility coming-out
All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.
Virginia WoolfTags: solitude silence seclusion invisibility
My own survival required me to counterbalance interesting with invisible.
Rachel HartmanTags: survival invisibility
I let go of our invisibility and do something I haven't done in a while: I reach for the doorknob. ~Willow Mosby, EXPOSING ELE
Courtney NuckelsTags: humor funny invisibility doorknobs powers exposing-ele
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 YorkTags: invisibility worthiness you-matter
Burying your head in the sand does not make you invisible it only leads to suffocation.
Wayne Gerard TrotmanTags: scifi wisdom science-fiction sci-fi invisible suffocation invisibility head wisdom-quote burying quotable chi-ro-jin
Why is it that old furniture always weighs more?" Laurie asks.
"Time makes everything heavier and slower," Millie replies. "Believe me.
Tags: time invisibility
Maxwell Arbus was the reason Saul lost an eye?"
"Yes," Millie answers stiffly. "But that was a long time ago. Saul has moved on. So have I."
Whatever checks I'd held on my emotions shatter.
"Moved on?!" Whirling around, I storm at Millie, waving my arms like a maniacal marionette. "I don't care if it was so long ago we could only get with a TARDIS! There is no moving on because it's happening right now!
Tags: humor loss moving-on invisibility tardis
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