Ignored Quotes

“It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“There will always be someone willing to hurt you, put you down, gossip about you, belittle your accomplishments and judge your soul. It is a fact that we all must face. However, if you realize that God is a best friend that stands beside you when others cast stones you will never be afraid, never feel worthless and never feel alone.”
― Shannon Alder

“The only person that deserves a special place in your life is someone that never made you feel like you were an option in theirs.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.”
― Arundhati Roy

“Accomplishments don’t erase shame, hatred, cruelty, silence, ignorance, discrimination, low self-esteem or immorality. It covers it up, with a creative version of pride and ego. Only restitution, forgiving yourself and others, compassion, repentance and living with dignity will ever erase the past.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Time doesn't heal all wounds, only distance can lessen the sting of them.”
― Shannon Alder

“Sometimes, you will go through awful trials in your life and then a miracle happens--God heals you. Don’t be disheartened when the people you love don’t see things like you do. There will be Pharisees in your life that will laugh it off, deny that it happened, or will mock your experience based on righteousness they think you don't possess. God won't deny you a spiritual experience because you are not a spiritual leader. He loves everyone equal. The only people that really matter in life are the people that can “see” your heart and rejoice with you.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“A piece of art comes to life, when we can feel, it is breathing, when it talks to us and starts raising questions. It may dispel biased perceptions; make us recognize ignored fragments and remember forsaken episodes of our life story. Art may sometimes even be nasty and disturbing, if we don’t want to consent to its philosophy or concept, but it might, in the end, perhaps reconcile us with ourselves. (" When is Art? ")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“God whispered," You endured a lot. For that I am truly sorry, but grateful. I needed you to struggle to help so many. Through that process you would grow into who you have now become. Didn't you know that I gave all my struggles to my favorite children? One only needs to look at the struggles given to your older brother Jesus to know how important you have been to me.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“While it is better to be loved than hated, it is also far better to be hated than ignored.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

“When someone you loved finds no flattery in the gift you gave them then you must ask yourself," What was worth loving?”
― Shannon Alder

“you’re ignoring me so loud that it’s deafening.
This silence is so deep that it’s echoing.”
― Anna Jae

“We must all work in harmony with each other to stand up for what is right, to speak up for what is fair, and to always voice any corrections so that the ignorant become informed and justice is never ignored. Every time a person allows an act of ignorance to happen, they delay our progress for true change. Every person, molecule and thing matters. We become responsible for the actions of others the instant we become conscious of what they are doing wrong and fail to remind them of what is right.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“These are very scary times for a lot of people who are just now realizing that America is not, and has never been, the melting-pot utopia that their parents and teachers told them it was. These are very scary times for those who are just now realizing how justifiably hurt, angry, and terrified so many people of color have been all along. These are very stressful times for people of color who have been fighting and yelling and trying to protect themselves from a world that doesn’t care, to suddenly be asked by those who’ve ignored them for so long, ‘What has been happening your entire life? Can you educate me?”
― Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

“Girls who are ignored can learn to be impossible, can learn to listen, and look, and learn more than they were ever meant to know.”
― A. Deborah Baker, Over the Woodward Wall

“The more you mock, the higher I fly,
More you ignore, more evident I become.
Every act of hate ends up feeding my light,
More you persecute, more immortal I become.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“Something has to be heard to be ignored. He heard me this time, and he ignored me.”
― H.G. Parry, The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep

“Being there, but not being there.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Had he lived some centuries ago, in the brightly coloured civilisations of the past, he would have had a definite status, his rank and his income would have corresponded. But in his day the angel of Democracy had arisen, enshadowing the classes with leathern wings, and proclaiming, “All men are equal — all men, that is to say, who possess umbrellas,” and so he was obliged to assert gentility, lest he slip into the abyss where nothing counts, and the statements of Democracy are inaudible.”
― E.M. Forster, Howards End

“Sitting down on a crate, Helen felt them, felt the vibrancy they had left behind like twilight after the sun is gone. She tried to picture their faces, their voices, but the details already blurred. They were slipping away from her, for they were never hers to keep. Turning her eyes to the ocean, Helen thought of all those boatloads of children on the water, needing somewhere warm and safe, and yet the ocean hadn’t listened to her plea. Everything she’d asked the universe had been ignored, snubbed. As she watched the waves, she tried to find peace in their steady heartbeat, but none came. The only thing she felt was betrayed.
Betrayed and so utterly lonely.”
― Corinne Beenfield, The Ocean's Daughter:

“It’s interesting how people ignore you when you are no longer beneficial to their needs!”
― Lily Amis

“Still, it was discouraging to think that she would spend the rest of her life being ignored and neglected, unable to find a partner who truly cared about her, while basically being a single woman who did a man's laundry.

If she was going to be single, she didn't want the extra laundry to do.”
― Jessie Gussman, Just a Cowboy's Best Friend

“I ignored President Trump during the early days of COVID-19 in the USA.”
― Steven Magee

“Porque estar sozinho era bem melhor do que ser rejeitado, deixado ou abandonado.”
― Laura Kaye, Love in the Light

“2020 was the year the medical profession conveniently ignored over a century of cross infection techniques.”
― Steven Magee

“Don’t start, initiate, or take on unnecessary battles. Some things can be walked over, prayed about or ignored.”
― Brenda Diann Johnson

“One of the things I really like about Costco is they have ignored the lies from a COVID-19 infected President Trump.”
― Steven Magee

“Brain nutrition is a very important aspect of mental health that is often ignored by the mental health profession.”
― Steven Magee, Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

“I ignored Rhysand as soon as I noticed his feline smile, the corona of darkness around him.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“The doctors ignored me when I was telling them I was food intolerant!”
― Steven Magee