Quotes About Looking In The Mirror

#1. The problem with looking in the mirror is that you never know how you will feel about what you see. Sometimes, when my hormones are out of sync, I have no interest in the mirror, and if I do look I think everything is all wrong. Other times, I am quite pleased with what I see.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#2. The problem with the literary hothouse of New York City is that people spend so much time looking in the mirror. They go to parties with people who are just like them, and they write novels about people who are just like them. It's limiting.

Anne Fadiman

#3. Listening to South Korean television was like looking in the mirror for the first time in your life and realizing you were unattractive.

Barbara Demick

#4. I love looking in the mirror and feeling good about what I see.

Heather Morris

#5. Stop looking in the mirror and forget how you look like; we are all special the way we are.

M.F. Moonzajer

#6. You have to stop looking in the mirror and realize that your living for yourself, not other people.

Taylor Swift

#7. I judge when I need a top-up of Botox by looking in the mirror to see if I can move more than half my forehead.

Trinny Woodall

#8. I was looking in the mirror the other day and I realized I haven't changed much since I was in my twenties. The only difference is I look a whole lot older now.

George Carlin

#9. A man in a suit looking put together and dapper is very attractive, but I also kind of like the I-just-rolled-out-of-bed, a-little-bit-of-scruff, effortless, not-trying-hard-but-still-sexy guy. If a guy spends more time looking in the mirror than I do, that's problem!

Nina Dobrev

#10. I had a very bad time with acid. I did that classic thing of looking in the mirror by mistake and seeing the devil. But I took it several times, because you always think that next time you might have the wonderful time that everyone else is having.

Robbie Coltrane

#11. I avoid looking in the mirror.

Marina Warner

#12. Self-image, the concept we have of ourselves, must begin not by looking in the mirror but by looking into the face of God.

Sam Storms

#13. Figure skating has been a great influence for me. I took dance at the School of American Ballet, which helped my own skating. And whether you are a skater or a dancer, without sounding narcissistic, it is all about looking in the mirror.

Vera Wang

#14. In photos, I don't know who the real me is - it's all pretend, just pretend. There's not much of myself in my work. If I'm looking in the mirror and I'm working, I'm looking at my make-up and my hair. It's not the same as looking at myself.

Linda Evangelista

#15. It's not all about love. That's half of it ... The other half is about that moment you have with yourself when you're looking in the mirror, and you just go, 'Oh man. I'm going to compromise my dreams, get fat, sick, old and die someday. I kind of want to have someone around for that.'

Marc Maron

#16. If you are searching for someone to hate, try looking in the mirror.

Russ Lippitt

#17. I learned early on, having known the most handsome, successful, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, don't ever spend too much time looking in the mirror.

Robert Stack

#18. Naive people always trying to blame others for their constant heartbreak & failed relationships instead of looking in the mirror & re-evaluating themselves. It's YOU that needs to change.

David Reeves

#19. In our daily lives, we see ourselves often in very reductive ways. I want to explore motion, change and flux, whether we are looking in the mirror or seeing ourselves in our surroundings. The singular view of self contradicts the act of living.

Doug Aitken

#20. I felt that I had been influenced by being in the city enough and I wanted to go off by myself to see what was going on. I remember going out there and looking in the mirror and thinking I wasn't anything.

Roscoe Mitchell

#21. I can't bear looking in the mirror - I guess that's why my hair looks like this.

Lance Bass

#22. Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.

Aberjhani

#23. It isn't easy looking in the mirror and accepting that you were missing some element, some thing that kept a person you wanted from loving you.

Nora Roberts

#24. Anyone can become a game show host. It simply requires a giant, narcissistic ego and an inability to do anything else. The closest thing to school I did was looking in the mirror one hundred times a day and repeating, 'People should listen to you talk.'

Kurt Braunohler

#25. It sounds so cheesy, but there's something very powerful about looking in the mirror and asking yourself a question. Because I think it's really hard to lie.

Kristen Wiig

#26. Stop looking in the mirror and start looking out the window.

Merrilee Boyack

#27. Looking in the mirror is very strange; we see only what we choose to see, good or bad.

Bonnie Langford

#28. Try looking in the mirror and determining where you stand in the attractiveness-hierarchy with anything like the objective ease you can determine whether just about anyone else you know is good-looking or not - but

David Foster Wallace

#29. Gillman smiles, in the cold manner of an assassin. It's like looking in the mirror.

Irvine Welsh

#30. I used to blame my problems on other people. But my moment of clarity, if you want to call it that, came when I was looking in the mirror one day and just burst into tears. It wasn't just that I looked bad, it was that I knew my problem was me.

Tom Sizemore

#31. Difficult. Everything is difficult at the moment. Sleeping is difficult because I keep having horrible dreams. Waking up is difficult because I can't sleep. Looking in the mirror is difficult because I hate the person I see.

Sarah Darer Littman

#32. Looking in the mirror, I saw a joyful face. And this happy girl was just about to go on a trip, with a one way ticket in her bag. Life was a never ending journey.

Nico J. Genes

#33. I've always been a bit of a poser. I was chucked out of ballet lessons for looking in the mirror.

Abbey Clancy

#34. I practiced making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course.

Jim Carrey

#35. When I was four years old, I remember looking in the mirror and running my fingers over my stomach and thinking I was fat.

Demi Lovato

#36. I was a million percent in love with Edward Scissorhands. I remember looking in the mirror on the last day of shooting ... and thinking how sad I was to be saying goodbye to Edward.

Johnny Depp

#37. - You see a man and you just play with him, because you know you can.
- I play with women too. I believe in equal rights, she said, looking in the mirror.

Eva Scoutt

#38. I feel like looking in the mirror when you brush your teeth, yes, I see lines, and then I smile and I see things here and there. But that's just, you know, you - that's your journey, you know?

Heidi Klum

#39. I'm searching, as we all are, for ways to feel good about myself. Certainly, looking in the mirror doesn't do it!

Ani DiFranco

#40. Getting the role like this is such awonderful opportunity..I remember looking in the mirror and going 'I'm superman'.

Henry Cavill

#41. Instead of looking in the mirror and focusing on your flaws, look in the mirror and appreciate your best features ... everyone has them.

Demi Lovato

#42. One day you look out and the audience consists of 65,000 people. It's like looking in the mirror and one day you realise you've gone grey.

Patrick Carney

#43. A lot of people, black, white, mexican, young or old, fat or skinny have a problem being true to they self. They have a problem looking in the mirror and looking directly into their own souls. Only reason I am who I am today is because I can look directly into my face and find my soul

Tupac Shakur

#44. I can honestly say I love getting older. Then again, I never put my glasses on before looking in the mirror.

Cherie Lunghi

#45. Because that's what narcissism is all about; looking in the mirror everyday and thinking 'Damn, I'd like to shag myself.'

Eddie Izzard

#46. Looking in the mirror to check if my tie is straight is a waste of my time. I only look in the mirror once a day, and that's in the morning when I shave.

Lennart Meri

#47. Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, 'I am Mrs de Winter now!

Alan Bennett

#48. Every morning, my dad would have me looking in the mirror and repeat, 'Today is going to be a great day; I can, and I will.'

Gina Rodriguez

#49. You have to self-reflect. If you forget who you actually are, then what's the use of even looking in the mirror.

Lil' Wayne

#50. There is a page in 'Diary of a Worm' in which the worm tells his sister that no matter how much time she spends looking in the mirror, her face will always look just like her rear end. Any girl that grew up with brothers can relate to the merciless teasing.

Doreen Cronin

#51. When I left, they were stuck with the burden of finding someone else to blame for their life ... Pointing their anger everywhere, but never looking in the mirror ... Continuing the cycle that led to their misery.

Steve Maraboli

#52. I used to hate looking in the mirror. I've grown up into myself and now I'm happy with the way I look.

Ashley Tisdale

#53. I got scars on my face that tell some kind of story. I'm looking in the mirror, and I got one scar that's really two scars - half from a baseball bat and half from playing football in college. I'll tell you, though, after a while, your face gets so wrinkled up you can hardly see them.

Kris Kristofferson

#54. Unfortunately, this is so obviously a convention of bad fiction that it might as well read, 'Looking in the mirror, Joe saw a tall, brown-haired man, trapped in a poorly written novel.

Howard Mittelmark

#55. When you can't understand the negativity, doubt, or lack of support directed at you just remember this. They are not looking at you ... they are looking in the mirror. After that the true clarity of their self-doubt will emerge.

Carl Henegan

#56. How different would your world be if you looked in the mirror and saw your best friend looking back at you?

Janet Dunnagan

#57. You are the most powerful army in the world; you are the future of this planet. You cannot, you will not spend one more minute of your time looking in a mirror wishing you looked different.

Jamie Le Fay

#58. Through the window of my soul and the mirror of my mind, I was looking for the beauty of my life. I could not find it, but I found it in the glint of a dew drop at the edge of a dancing leaf.

Debasish Mridha

#59. I suppose I do get sad, but not for too long. I just look in the mirror and go, 'What a fucking good-looking fuck you are.' And then I brighten up.

Liam Gallagher

#60. When you look in the mirror, remember that who you see looking back at you is a piece of your highest self, the Divine.

Alice Hocker

#61. Looking at a pure heart is like looking in to a mirror. All you will see is your own reflection. If you are corrupt, you will see corruption. If you are pure, you will see purity. But don't blame the mirror, all you are seeing is yourself.
- Kambiz Mostofizadeh

Kambiz Mostofizadeh

#62. You used to be able to identify Sox fans in Yankee Stadium. They sat, slump-shouldered, with the same panicked expectation nervous motorists have looking in the rearview mirror at the 16-wheeler behind them on Interstate 95 near New Haven.

Mike Barnicle

#63. There's no denying the fact he is really, really good-looking, in this rakish, edgy, badass, I-just-rolled-out-of-bed-and-screw-you-I-don't-need-a-mirror kind of way.

Hannah Harrington

#64. Think of the fears, hit 3rd gear no point in looking back in the rear view mirror.

Matthew Donnelly

#65. managing a company by looking at financial data (lag measures) is the equivalent of "driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror.

Chris McChesney

#66. When I look in the mirror, I know I'm looking at someone who isn't sure she deserves to be loved at all.

Nicholas Sparks

#67. It may be tempting to look back and wring our hands over missed opportunities for change in the preceding decades. But, I'm not interested at looking in the rearview mirror except to learn.

Jennifer Granholm

#68. Sometimes, of all the people in the world, the one who is the hardest to forgive-as well as perhaps the one who is most in need of our forgiveness-is the person looking back at us in the mirror.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#69. I usually only draw myself in down periods ... I suppose that's why I often draw myself looking grim. I just think, 'Let's have a look in the mirror.' When you are alone and you look in a mirror you never put on a pleasing smile. Well, you don't, do you?

David Hockney

#70. Odd, some might think. Why someone would need to travel so far to find oneself. Surely a look in the mirror would suffice, and wouldn't that be cheaper too? But the mirror lies, and the eyes that do the looking conspire too.

Farish A. Noor

#71. As I brush my long, brown hair, the girl in the mirror with blue eyes too big for her head stares back at me. Wait ... I don't have blue eyes! Then I realize I haven't been looking into the mirror. I've been staring at a poster of Kristen Stewart for five minutes. My own hair is actually fine.

Andrew Shaffer

#72. It's such a weird thing: to sit and look at yourself is so distracting to the psyche. It would be like me standing in front of a mirror and looking at myself all day, trying to find a flaw.

Natasha Lyonne

#73. I looked at myself in the mirror. I looked awful, but I always look awful in the mirror. I keep myself going with the firm belief that my real face is much better looking.

George Alec Effinger

#74. Seems like the only one who doesn't see your beauty is the face in the mirror looking back at you.

Taylor Swift

#75. To look into the mirror is to see the future, in blood and rubies.

Gregory Maguire

#76. She stared at her face in the mirror, feeling everything around her slipping away. The face stared back, and she wondered who was looking at her.

Joe DeRouen

#77. At home, Tommy tried to avoid looking too long at himself in the mirror, for his reflection stirred in him a feeling of great loneliness and a fear that this loneliness might be permanent.

Aryn Kyle

#78. Through love and sincerity continuously beautify your inner life in every way, by daily looking into the mirror of introspection.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#79. Telling a woman that you will be unable to climax unless you are looking at her in a mirror is, in my experience, an excellent way to ensure the only place you will ever see her again is in depressing memories.

Stephen Moles

#80. I think that fans are always looking for someone to blame. Wouldn't it be nice if they looked in the mirror?

Michael Lewis

#81. She had wondered, when he'd looked into her eyes and said that he'd had to learn to make do without mirrors in the Wild Hunt, whose eyes he'd been looking into for all those years. Who'd been his mirror.
Now she knew.

Cassandra Clare

#82. She looked fragile. Alone. Prisoner in the room through the mirror; an Alice who never made it back through the looking-glass.

Joss Stirling

#83. Marshall McLuhan is absolutely right, we are always looking in the rear view mirror.

Margaret Atwood

#84. Seeing outward is equivalent to looking backward in time because the telescope's mirror is capturing primeval light ... galaxies that existed before our time.

Richard Preston

#85. In any given project, there are a few moments where there is the usual disappointment, as it were, when you look in the mirror, and you realize you're not 23 and looking like Brad Pitt.

Kenneth Branagh

#86. Whoever wants the "I" to yield up its mysterious and tremendous secret must stop it from looking perpetually in the mirror, must stop the little ego's fascination with its own image.

Paul Brunton

#87. Your future starts today. Don't go through life looking in the rearview mirror. Your life is filled with possibility.

Joel Osteen

#88. She wasn't looking at herself in the glass, but out at a great silver moon hanging beyond a thin metal balcony that looked over the grey towers of a human city.

Denny B. Reese

#89. I just think they look good on people. You spend a lot of time in the mirror looking at yourself when you have tattoos. Same way with other people. It just looks good.

The Rev

#90. Start a daily routine of looking at yourself in the mirror through a lens of unconditional love, appreciation, admiration and respect....Connect with the soul behind the image of you in the mirror. Look upon yourself with complete adoration, acceptance and non- judgement.

Miya Yamanouchi

#91. If you're looking for perfection, look in the mirror. If you find it there, expect it elsewhere.

Malcolm Forbes

#92. The extreme side of my personality, which I chose to sort of display, was snowballing and getting a life of its own. It was like looking in a mirror and not recognising myself.

Brian Molko

#93. An egoist," said Father Brown. "She was the sort of person who had looked in the mirror before looking out of the window, and it is the worst calamity of mortal life.

G.K. Chesterton

#94. We literally are all made out of stardust. We started from those stars; we are made of stardust. So, next time you are really depressed, look in the mirror and you can look and say, 'Hi, I'm looking at a star here.'

Charles Elachi

#95. Explore the situation. Statements are expendable. Don't keep on looking in the rearview mirror and defending the status quo which is outmoded the moment it happened.

Marshall McLuhan

#96. No one gets a crystal ball, and you can't drive across the country looking in your rear view mirror.

Richard P. Alvarez

#97. When a woman buys shoes, she takes them out of the box and looks at herself in the mirror. But she isn't really looking at her shoes - she's looking at herself. If she likes herself, then she likes the shoes.

Christian Louboutin

#98. So you go in a library, and you pull a book off the shelf, and you open it, and what are you looking for? A mirror. All of a sudden, a mirror is there and you see yourself.

Ray Bradbury

#99. Start with the man in the mirror. Start with yourself. Dont be looking at all the other things. Start with you

Michael Jackson

#100. A girl on the cheer squad had once asked Gabriel if having a twin was like looking in a mirror all the time. He'd asked her if being a cheerleader was like being an idiot all of the time - but really, it was a good question.

Brigid Kemmerer