The Invisible Man (Narrator)

Character in Invisible Man From: Invisible Man

Unnamed protagonist whose internal monologue and reflections form the narrative core

381 quotes

"The world moves on, indifferent to individual suffering."
Philosophy
"I had to learn to live with the unbearable contradiction."
Strength
"Light and darkness are not absolute, but relative."
Philosophy
"The struggle is internal before it becomes external."
Courage
"I found myself in the act of losing myself."
"The truth, though uncomfortable, sets one free."
Truth
"I am invisible, not because of any biochemical accident, but because of the peculiar disposition of the eyes of those who look at me."
"Being invisible provides a sort of freedom."
Freedom
"I might be hurt and still be whole."
Strength
"The world doesn't see me."
Truth
"I accept their rejection and go ahead."
Courage
"What did they think I was, a machine?"
Philosophy
"I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions."
Wisdom
"I was no longer running away from invisible forces, but running toward something."
Motivation
"I am not ashamed of my grandfather."
Family
"They've been doing it to us all the time."
Truth
"I must have been a very backward student."
Education
"Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?"
Wisdom
"The mind that believes absurdities will commit atrocities."
Philosophy
"I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain."
Perseverance
"Perhaps that invisibility is my greatest asset."
Strength
"I was looking for an exit and went deeper in."
Change
"What is real anyway?"
Truth
"I am what they made me."
"One must descend to ascend."
Wisdom
"I needed to find out who I was."
"Society was a machine."
Philosophy
"I am invisible, not because of any biochemical accident, but because of the peculiar disposition of the eyes of those who look at me."
"Being invisible is not a matter of biochemistry, as you know, but a matter of psychology and the ways of seeing."
Truth
"The world is just as concrete, ornery, vile and sublimely wonderful as before, only now I better understand my relation to it."
Knowledge