Unobserved Quotes

“The joy of being observed ran so deep that Breuer believed the real pain of old age, bereavement, outliving one's friends, was the absence of scrutiny - the horror of living an unobserved life.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept

“He had never encountered a patient who did not secretly enjoy a microscopic examination of his life. And the greater the power of magnification, the more the patient enjoyed it. The joy of being observed ran so deep that Breuer believed the real pain of old age, bereavement, outliving one’s friends, was the absence of scrutiny—the horror of living an unobserved life.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept

“They had become an occasional mutter, like the interior sounds a woman makes when she believes she is alone and unobserved at her work: a sth when she misses the needle's eye; a soft moan when she sees another chip in her one good platter; the low friendly argument with which she greets the hens.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“She was alone like a cat, like an owl, as if she walked unobserved, out of her human life.”
― Sandra Newman, The Heavens