The Invisible Man (Narrator)

"The only possible dignity must be extracted from the situation."

"I would overcome them with kindness."

"I was born in the darkness of the womb of the world."

"Men are always trying to save me."

"History records the patterns of men's lives."

"I had thought too much, observed too much."

"I must live with the contradictions."

"Perhaps I like the invisibility."

"I could see beneath the surface."

"The pattern of social organization is chaos."

"I remember back to my grandfather."

"I am coming out, invisible man."

"We live in the dark, mostly."

"I could not see the nature of things."

"Perhaps the best way is to go underground."

"I had achieved a position of great authority."

"The eyes of others are upon me."

"I would help build a better world."

"Freedom is not simply a condition to be obtained."

"I must understand the nature of my situation."

"The pattern must be woven together."

"I have always been a man of action."

"The truth must emerge from the chaos."

"I will not be bound by their definitions."

"I am invisible, not because of any biochemical accident, but because of the peculiar disposition of the eyes of those who look at me."

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

"I am not complaining, nor am I protesting either. It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen."

"It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was."

"I believed in hard work and progress and acceptance and the view that virtue was its own reward."

"Being invisible and without substance, to whom could I complain?"