Top 22 Books Are Mirrors Quotes
#1. There's a convention that books are mirrors of the real world, but our fact-obsessed age also wants fiction to be factually based and trustworthy.
Jim Crace
#2. Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#3. Come as you are. As you were. As I want you to be.
Kurt Cobain
#4. I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.
Denis Diderot
#5. You gotta look beyond the mainstream ... the mainstream'll drown you, you know? There's always a pulse in the underground that I love. And the pulse in the underground is what keeps heavy metal alive.
Phil Anselmo
#6. Be aware of your own worth, use all of your power to achieve it. Create an ocean from a dewdrop. Do not beg for light from the moon, obtain it from the spark within you.
Muhammad Iqbal
#7. As the years passed, and I was nine, 10, 11 years old, it became obvious I was going to start up a business of some sort.
John Caudwell
#9. The written word is all that stands between memory and oblivion. Without books as our anchors, we are cast adrift, neither teaching nor learning. They are windows on the past, mirrors on the present, and prisms reflected all possible futures. Books are lighthouses erected on the dark sea of time.
Greg Weisman
#10. We use books like mirrors, gazing into them only to discover ourselves.
Joseph Epstein
#11. As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the smell, with the light that filtered through the cracks or from the glass lanterns embedded in the wooden structure, floating among mirrors and shadows.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#12. But the big courage is the cold-blooded kind, the kind that never lets go even when you're feeling empty inside, and your blood's thin, and there's no kind of fun or profit to be had, and the trouble's not over in an hour or two but lasts for months and years.
John Buchan
#13. The only answer that I give to you
is doing it," he said. "A just request
is to be met in silence, by the act.
Dante Alighieri
#14. Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.
J.K. Rowling
#15. As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller dolls within. Step by step the narrative split into a thousand stories, as if it had entered a gallery of mirrors, its identity fragmented into endless reflections.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#16. Mirrors only show us what we are. Books show us what we can be.
Jennifer Donnelly
#17. Books are like blankets, the mere sight of them around the house provides warmth and comfort. They are like mirrors, too, reflecting places I've been, phases I've been through, people I've loved or thought I did.
Mary Schmich
#18. All the same, they [books] do serve some purpose. Culture doesn't save anything or anyone, it doesn't justify. But it's a product of man: he projects himself into it, he recognizes himself in it; that critical mirror alone offers him his image.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#19.
that books were mirrors, reflective in sometimes unpredictable ways.
Wally Lamb
#20. Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
Edward Gibbon
#21. I don't want to slam the cute and fun movies out there, but it gets old.
John Corbett
