Top 77 Quotes About Being Ignored
#1. But what is it that drives haters crazy with rage? Many times, it's being ignored. To a person with pride, being ignored is often worse than out-and-out hate; it's that much more of an insult, that you're not even worth noticing.
Bill Maher
#2. There is no loneliness more profound, in my experience, than being ignored by one's sole companion in life.
Rick Yancey
#3. But there was nothing more transparent to her than the fear of not being loved, the fear of being unseen, of being ignored.
Laura Esquivel
#4. For decades, activist shareholders were an entertaining, but largely ignored, Wall Street sideshow. Disgruntled investors would attend annual meetings to harangue executives, criticize strategies - and protest that their complaints were being ignored.
Charles Duhigg
#5. The senator cleared his throat, uncomfortable. This was probably new to him - the sensation of being ignored. I could've taught him a thing or two about it.
Jenn Marie Thorne
#6. But that doesn't take into consideration the other person's experience of being ignored.
Melanie Curtin
#7. I spent a great deal of my life being ignored. I was always very happy that way.
Saul Leiter
#8. But I felt as if I'd just been Photoshopped out of my own book cover. And if there was one thing I wasn't used to, it was being ignored
Rick Riordan
#9. Dead silence filled the room. Five Whitecloaks stood in the middle of the floor, studiously being ignored by the folk at the tables.
Robert Jordan
#10. There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.
Sean Penn
#11. I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. Sometimes it's the absence of great teachers that shapes your life and being ignored can be just as good for a person as being lauded.
Julia Roberts
#12. If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you've got something they want to hear.
Chuck Berry
#13. This was the sort of cruelty that only came from turned backs, from being ignored. Well-aimed lashes and direct blows were more easily understood. At least then the stricken knew their anguished cries were being heard.
Hugh Howey
#14. Politicians can forgive almost anything in the way of abuse; they can forgive subversion, revolution, being contradicted, exposed as liars, even ridiculed, but they can never forgive being ignored.
Auberon Waugh
#15. If my parents aren't ignoring me, they're insulting me. I like being ignored better.
P.C. Cast
#16. Being ignored has its advantages. Dignity doesn't grow under a microscoope.
Neal Shusterman
#17. I'm wrong. My house isn't a volcano-I am, and the past two years have created a dormant giant who no longer will tolerate being ignored. I'm tired of this. Tired of how everyone's become so obsessed with themselves, obsessed with the moment, that we've ceased caring what's going to happen next.
Katie McGarry
#18. If you're a freelance writer and aren't used to being ignored, neglected, and generally given short shrift, you must not have been in the business very long.
Poppy Z. Brite
#19. The irony of being ignored by someone is that it means you have been noticed by that person first. Take heart you were seen, and yes they still hate you. However, they will never forget you and will always look over their shoulder to see if your coming their way.
Shannon L. Alder
#20. Fate might forgive greed, or gluttony, or even bloodlust, but it never ignores being ignored.
Erik Bundy
#21. Artemisia maintained a reserved silence for as long as she could, but by the time they entered the tranquillity of the park her amicability had reasserted itself. Besides, she concluded that there was no point in ignoring a person when they were so obtuse as to not realise they were being ignored.
D.G. Rampton
#22. We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that were being ignored by the traditional press.
Jimmy Wales
#23. It's like a relay race of being ignored. It is really challenging, but whenever I get asked that stuff, I feel really self-conscious about it. I feel really lucky because we have a lot of help. When I first began to be a dad with Gwen [Stefani], I was amazed at what she went through.
Gavin Rossdale
#24. That is the most godlike feeling a human can experience; being ignored by rebellious child.
Dennis Garvin
#25. I was an ignored guy and have been for many years. But I suppose I became well-known after being ignored. After the release of the CDs and LPs, especially the LPs, people like it. I was impressed.
Yoshi Wada
#26. Creativity sometimes needs the protection of darkness, of being ignored. That is very obvious in the natural tendency many artists and writers have not to show their paintings or writings before they are finished.
Marie-Louise Von Franz
#27. Anger is a signal that you're distracted by judgmental or punitive thinking, and that some precious need of yours is being ignored.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#28. It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness.
Sloan Wilson
#29. I've had it with this waiting business. I can cope with another woman, but I can't cope with being ignored when there's nothing in his way.
Melina Marchetta
#31. Ignorance is bliss, unless you're the on being ignored.
Barnabas Smith
#32. I don't know what's worse, being ignored or stared at.
Renata Suerth
#33. The great thing about being ignored is that you can speak the truth with impunity.
Steve Aylett
#34. If you're being ignored, that's a good time to concentrate on finding yourself and creating your own mystery.
Lykke Li
#35. The effect on James of being ignored by the people who stood to benefit the most from his work was to distance himself even further from those people.
Michael Lewis
#36. An insult angers me. Being ignored crushes me.
Mason Cooley
#37. There is little or no point being chair of the Labour Party and being ignored when engaging with Labour ministers when you're trying to articulate something that affects ordinary people in society.
Colm Keaveney
#39. Everyone wants to be liked; everyone wants approval. No one likes being ignored.
Mallory Ortberg
#40. He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.
John Irving
#41. Basically, whenever someone says they're wrong, conservatives too often fall back on claims that those who disagree with them are biased and thus worthy of being ignored, a convenient position that allows them to avoid debating uncomfortable criticisms.
Kurt Eichenwald
#43. Everyday life is interesting enough, whether it be in an office or being ignored on the set of something supposedly more glamorous.
Ricky Gervais
#44. The contemporary American novelist benefits in a way from being ignored. It makes you angrier and makes you want to go into all of those places where you shouldn't.
Colum McCann
#45. If you're not ministering and using your gifts in the church, then something God wants done is being ignored.
Craig Groeschel
#46. Neil had spent his entire life drifting by on the outskirts, looked over and looked past. It'd made him happy, or so he'd thought, because being ignored meant he was safe. He hadn't realized how lonely he was until he met the Foxes.
Nora Sakavic
#47. I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.
Damien Hirst
#48. There were strict laws protecting card privacy but laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove.
Dan Simmons
#49. Being ignored is a great privilege. That is how I think I learned to see what others do not see and to react to situations differently. I simply looked at the world, not really prepared for anything.
Saul Leiter
#50. My audience is the baby-boomers, the bulk of the population. This is also a group that is being ignored by most record companies because they're not the Top 40 hit singles market. They forget these people still listen to music.
Helen Reddy
#51. The one thing she hated worse than being fussed over was being ignored.
Joe Abercrombie
#52. As legislators and as Members of Congress, it is our obligation to speak up for those who are being ignored in our society. The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) does just that.
Gwen Moore
#53. Everybody looks for a chance of attention. Nobody looks for a chance to be ignored. Why? Because being ignored really sucks.
The Wombat
#54. I used to play in the subway. If everyone tossed in a quarter, at the end of the day it would add up. It shows you aren't invisible. And it's better than being ignored, or kicked in the head, or worse.
Nellie McKay
#55. In Shahid's view, the best way through difficult times, as through life in general, was just to go along with things. It was a rare problem that couldn't be solved by being ignored.
John Lanchester
#56. I know what it's like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system: These people are being thrown away. There is no sense of rehabilitation. In some places, they are trying to do things. But, in most cases, it's a holding cell.
Lee Tergesen
#57. Stories of the Virgin being succoured by a friendly palm tree had actually been a Christian tradition for centuries, and seem in turn to have derived from a legend told by the pagan Greeks, was blithely ignored - as, of course, it was bound to be.
Tom Holland
#58. It was easy to blame people for the misery of life rather than blaming the sand. Yelling at the sand got you nowhere. People yelled back, and at least that was a response. An acknowledgment. Being tormented and simultaneously ignored was the worst.
Hugh Howey
#59. Sin silently cheered his father for being a dick right along with him and ignored the heated glares that they were both receiving.
Santino Hassell
#60. A lot of people say you've got all the loving in the world when you walk out on stage. But hell, that applause don't help you any when you're lying in that bed at night being totally ignored
Patsy Cline
#61. The room was quiet, the others flicking glances at me. I ignored them. After years in Sounis's palaces being eyed with disgust by my uncle and my own father and courtier after courtier, I assure you I am unrivaled at pretending not to notice other people's glances.
Megan Whalen Turner
#62. She had ignored the Heidlers because she realized that she could afford to display coldness, and that no good ever comes from being too polite.
Jean Rhys
#63. For the spiritual being, intuition is far more than a hunch. It is viewed as guidance or as God talking, and this inner insight is never taken lightly or ignored.
Wayne Dyer
#64. We've entered dangerous territory. You can't kiss someone with so much emotion if you're preparing to walk away. Alarms ring through my head, too loud and too obvious to be ignored. There are way too many complex emotions being passed between us. I already know he's going to shatter my heart.
Jennifer Ann
#65. For each human being, time is a necessary resource. It can neither be ignored nor changed.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#66. The question was how you ignored someone's request to be left alone - even if it meant jeopardizing the friendship. It was a wretched little koan: How can you help someone who won't be helped while realizing that if you don't try to help, then you're not being a friend at all?
Hanya Yanagihara
#67. This is the best thing about men's friendships: most any awkwardness can be ignored by mutual agreement and, true connection being unimaginable, you can get on with the easier business of parallel living.
William Landay
#68. I had become accustomed to being woken, and generally managed to fall asleep again within a few minutes. But the aggregate effect could not be ignored and I was forced to reschedule my bedtime to thirteen minutes earlier.
Graeme Simsion
#69. One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.
Billy Collins
#70. Until you have stood in another woman's stilettos, you will never begin to know the year of pain she felt breaking them in.
Shannon L. Alder
#71. I'm basically stubborn. If anyone disapproved of my being influenced by comics, I simply ignored them.
Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero
#72. One couple described the effects as being, "dated hard, married quick, and then ignored." They got into church alright, but the church never got into them; they were let in easily enough, but they never felt they were counted on.
Sue Mallory
#73. Not everybody will get it. People will misinterpret you and what you do. They might even call you names. So get comfortable with being misunderstood, disparaged, or ignored
the trick is to be too busy doing your work to care.
Austin Kleon
#74. Those who claim that they can't change because people don't change, are being selfish, ignorant and abusive. They deserve no friends and no love. They deserve to be ignored.
Robin Sacredfire
#75. Crime writers adore islands. We love the sense of being trapped within a community apart, where normal codes of behavior, if not ignored, can be allowed to slip.
Sharon Bolton
#76. For me, being with Obama or having dinner with Bill Clinton ... It's crazy. It's mind-blowing, because where I come from is just another world. We were just ignored by politicians, by America in general.
Jay-Z
#77. He didn't notice me at first. They never do. That's one of the things about being plain - you often get ignored.
Samantha Warren
