The Invisible Man (Narrator)

"Sometimes it's a good thing to be invisible."

"I had been shocked out of my routine."

"This is my life and it is my reality."

"I was aware of the white men's world."

"The battle was over."

"I don't think they would have believed me."

"It's all meaningless."

"What was this, my real life?"

"I must come out, I must emerge."

"The world is a strange place."

"I am invisible, not because of any biochemical accident, but because of the peculiar disposition of the eyes of those with whom I come in contact."

"Being invisible provides a kind of freedom."

"I've often wished it possible for us to exchange the place of the skin in which fate has dressed us."

"The world doesn't see you. That's the real invisibility."

"I had to overcome an urge to run, to hide, to escape this moment and this place."

"The invisible man is real, but only if people acknowledge his existence."

"I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer."

"Identity is a paradox of the visible and invisible."

"Society creates invisibility through indifference."

"I had been unaware of the true nature of my invisibility until I came to Harlem."

"I became aware that I had been a fool, but what I wanted to know now was what kind of fool."

"The Brotherhood used me as they would use a broom."

"I must accept what I am, even if the world refuses to acknowledge it."

"The riot became the moment of my true visibility and invisibility."

"In the darkness, I am finally free to exist as myself."

"I had been searching for identity in the wrong places and the wrong faces."

"To be invisible is to be without responsibility in the eyes of others."

"What did I know of how to live as an invisible man?"

"I became the villain in other people's narratives."

"The factory and the electro-shock represented the erasure of self."