50 Being Ignored Quotes: Voices of the Unseen
Sometimes being ignored can feel isolating, but you’re not alone in experiencing it.
To help you express those emotions, we’ve compiled a list of the best quotes about being ignored.
And if you’re looking for sayings on feeling unseen, we also have you covered.
Now go ahead and browse through to find your favorite.
Best Quotes on Being Ignored
“I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is ending up with people who make you feel all alone.” — Robin Williams
“Feel proud when people ignore you and thank God you missed the worst.” — Sanjiv Dogra
“Lonely isn’t a feeling when you’re alone, lonely is a feeling when no one cares.” — James Merrow
“A man said unto the universe, ‘Sir, I exist’ ‘However,’ replied the universe, ‘that fact has not created in me a sense of obligation.'” — Stephen Crane
“There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” — Oscar Wilde
“People with insufficient personalities are fond of cats. These people adore being ignored.” — Henry Morgan
“The most dangerous form of invisibility is when you start believing you don’t deserve to be seen.” — Adrian Cole
“In presence of the Moon nobody sees stars.” — Amit Kalantri
“What’s worse than being hated is being ignored, because it’s like you don’t exist at all and your presence is nothing.” — Anurag Prakash Ray
“The great thing about being ignored is that you can speak the truth with impunity.” — Steve Aylett
“Ignorance is not just the absence of knowledge, but the deliberate act of turning away from another’s humanity.” — Rebecca Winters
“If you’re being ignored, that’s a good time to concentrate on finding yourself and creating your own mystery.” — Lykke Li
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” — Aldous Huxley
“The worst thing a guy could do for a girl is to ignore her while she’s loving you with all her heart.” — Liam Payne
“Probably the most neglected friend you have is you. And yet every man, before he can be a true friend to the world, must first become a friend to himself.” — L. Ron Hubbard
“Silence is not golden when it’s the sound of your existence being muted.” — Lauren Garrett
“Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force.” — Carl Jung
“If you feel neglected or ignored in the beginning, don’t expect a miracle as time goes on and he gets more use to you, it’s only going to get worse wake up, move on, and find someone who makes you feel you are truly wanted if you have to wonder about it.” — Debbie Rutherford
“I grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.” — Harriet Tubman
“What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.” — Pearl S. Buck
“A little neglect may breed mischief … for want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost.” — Benjamin Franklin
“People ignore design that ignores people.” — Frank Chimero
“He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.” — John Irving
“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
“When your friends are ignoring you that means they weren’t your friends from the beginning, they where just acting like it.” — Nishan Panwar
“Sometimes people can hunger for more than bread. It is possible that our children, our husband, our wife, do not hunger for bread, do not need clothes, do not lack a house. But are we equally sure that none of them feels alone, abandoned, neglected, needi.” — Mother Teresa
“When your’re nothing, people will ignore you but when you’re on top that’s when everybody swear they know you.” — Lincey Alphonse
“Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot.” — Dixie Lee Ray
“These doorsteps seldom have a visitor. The warping boards pull out their own old nails With none to tread and put them in their place.” — Robert Frost
“A spark neglected makes a mighty fire.” — Robert Herrick
“Being taken for granted is an unpleasant but sincere form of praise. Ironically, the more reliable you are, and the less you complain, the more likely you are to be taken for granted.” — Gretchen Rubin
“The cold iron of neglect is sharper to a child’s sensitive nature than any alteration of harshness and affection.” — Annie Edwards
“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
“Being ignored hurt worse. Shunning is harsh. Brutal. Worse than a beating.” — Lori Nelson
“Some children who are looked after, either by foster-parents or who reside in children’s homes, are also sometimes emotionally abused and neglected.” — Dorota Iwaniec
“Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you’ve become a comfortable, trusted element in another person’s life.” — Joyce Brothers
“Be so good they can’t ignore you.” — Steve Martin
“All of us make mistakes. The key is to acknowledge them, learn, and move on. The real sin is ignoring mistakes, or worse, seeking to hide them.” — Robert Zoelick
“When your husband ignores you, no matter if it’s all the time or just after arguments, he is trying to avoid and run away from a problem instead of dealing with it and solving it.” — Lisa Penn
“You’re ignoring me so loud that it’s deafening. This silence is so deep that it’s echoing.” — Anna Jae
“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
“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
“In a way, bullying is an ordinary evil. It’s hugely prevalent, all too often ignored – and being ignored, it is therefore condoned.” — Trudie Styler
“There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless’. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.” — Arundhati Roy
“We will not take this anymore. These words will never be ignored. You want a battle, here’s a war.” — Bullet for My Valentine
“I can’t feel the way I did before, / Don’t turn your back on me. / I won’t be ignored. / Time won’t heal this damage anymore. / Don’t turn your back on me I won’t be ignored.” — Linkin Park
“Long neglect has worn away, Half the sweet enchanting smile; Time has turned the bloom to gray, mold and damp the face defile.” — Emily Jane Brontë
“To not ignore is a freedom to ignore violation, to then target an individual is called discrimination. Not because they hurt you or inflicted damage, but because the adult in you wasn’t managed.” — Matthew Tuck
“If you live your life correctly, death walks close by your side. To constantly remind you, that time’s not on your side. Your choice on how to handle, to ignore or then befriend. Will change your life completely —as each day begins again.” — Kurt Philip Behm
“Fate might forgive greed, or gluttony, or even bloodlust, but it never ignores being ignored.” — Erik Bundy
Being Ignored Sayings
“Being ignored is a silent scream that echoes in the heart.”
“In the shadows of silence, the pain of being unseen often grows.”
“To be ignored is to become a ghost in the lives of others.”
“When words go unheard, the heart learns to speak in whispers.”
“Being ignored is a reminder that not all absence is a void; some are filled with indifference.”
“Invisible to the world, yet visible in my own sorrow.”
“The silence of neglect can be louder than a thousand voices.”
“In the dance of conversation, being ignored is the ultimate misstep.”
“Being ignored is the heart’s way of feeling its own weight.”
“When you’re not seen, you learn to reflect the light within.”
“In a room full of chatter, being ignored feels like standing in a silent storm.”
“The heart yearns for connection, yet sometimes finds only echoes of its own loneliness.”
“Being ignored is a reminder that presence does not always equal importance.”
“Sometimes, the loudest cries for help are silenced by the deafening silence of neglect.”
“You may not notice the shadows, but they are always there, yearning to be acknowledged.”
“Being ignored teaches resilience; it’s the art of finding strength in solitude.”
“In the garden of relationships, neglect can be the weeds that choke the blooms.”
“Sometimes, the greatest betrayal is not the act of hate, but the absence of love.”
“Being ignored is like fading into the background; you see the world, but the world forgets you.”
“Not every silence is golden; some are merely a shroud for the unspoken pain of being ignored.”
