Top 100 Quotes About Mirrors
#1. The soul is the mirror of an indestructible universe. The Monadology.
Gottfried Leibniz
#2. Do not tell me what to do, tell me what you do. Do not tell me what is good for me, tell me what is good for you. If, at the same time, you reveal the you in me, if you become a mirror to my inner self, then you have made a reader and a friend.
George A. Sheehan
#3. While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.
Ambrose Bierce
#4. I think music, like writing, can be a mirror. Can turn back onto the listener, the viewer, the reader, an experience that they know but they don't know.
Claudia Rankine
#5. As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of another culture.
Jennifer Stone
#6. What's interesting is the populace movement of fundamentalism is starting to mirror that approach that elite fundamentalism has long had of trying to have influence across the political spectrum.
Jeff Sharlet
#8. Those social networks, there's something sad about them. Is it because they don't have enough knowledge about friends and people? I don't understand it. It's like a talkative mirror where people talk to themselves. And what I hate most in life is selfies.
Karl Lagerfeld
#9. The happiest woman sees not gladness alone reflected from her mirror; its surface will inevitably be sometimes dimmed with sighs.
Louise Colet
#10. It's important to avoid mirrors if one is unprepared to accept their daily news, and I think, in something as insignificantly devastating as appearance, denial is more socially constructive than despondency. Not that there's anything especially wrong with me
just the usual.
Rivka Galchen
#11. You are
What you are looking for
In fragmented mirrors
Stop looking
Be Still
End the mind-noise
Silence Now
Eyes shut
Heart wide-open
And then you see
Everything!
Gabriel Iqbal
#12. Is it a bad sign when you see the person you're dating and get the same feeling as if you just saw police lights in you're rear view mirror?
Dov Davidoff
#13. I'm my own biggest critic. I'm the one who has to go home and look at myself in the mirror.
Tony Gonzalez
#14. A curious thing about atrocity stories is that they mirror, instead of the events they purport to describe, the extent of the hatred of the people that tell them. Still, you can't listen unmoved to tales of misery and murder.
John Dos Passos
#15. I like to think that at best the interview becomes something like the unaccountable experience of talking to oneself in a mirror.
Michael Silverblatt
#16. If you admire yourself in the mirror, let it be in fear and not delight, because the only thing that beauty will bring to you is terror of losing it.
Amelie Nothomb
#18. The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
Jorge Luis Borges
#19. Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and times gone by. Beloved images rise up in disobedience and make a mirror for emptiness.
Maeve Brennan
#20. To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self. She is living selflessly, she finds a hole in the stone wall and on the other side of the wall, a voice. The voice comes through darkness and has no face. This voice becomes her mirror.
Margaret Atwood
#21. Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#22. The patchy starlight gives every one of his bee-sting scars its own shadow, so his face mirrors the desert landscape: bursts of scrub and rocks, miles of flat.
Lindsay Eagar
#24. I was twenty one years old and I thought, here I am my health is at risk, my life is going to go down hill from here and I really had to have a look in the mirror to see what the cause was of that and the cause of that was me.
John Assaraf
#25. Dogs, being wordless, can only be mirrors of their humans. It's not their fault that their people are fatally flawed.
Lauren Groff
#26. The secret of happiness is to ignore your reflection in mirrors once you're over forty.
David Mitchell
#27. Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.
Byron Katie
#28. Vishnu Vishnu Vishnu regarded regarded regarded Brahma Brahma Brahma ...
They sat in the Hall of Mirrors.
Roger Zelazny
#29. Music is like a mirror in front of you. You're exposing everything, but surely that's better than suppressing ... You have to dig deep and that can be hard for anybody, no matter what profession. I feel that I need to actually push myself to the limit to feel happy with the end result.
Enya
#30. The world is like a mirror; if you smile at it, it smiles at you. I love to smile, and so in general, I definitely receive smiles in return.
Peace Pilgrim
#31. Statistics are like women; mirrors of purest virtue and truth, or like whores to use as one pleases.
Theodor Billroth
#34. I spent most of my time in my room staring at a mirror. I never knew I was supposed to socialize. I just spent hours making faces at myself, having a good time.
Jim Carrey
#35. Tears fell from my eyes - yes, weak and foolish as it now appears to me, I wept for my departed youth; and for that beauty of which the faithful mirror too plainly assured me, no remnant existed.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
#36. I'm just a journalist. I shine a mirror to the culture. I give the cop-out answer.
Mark Leibovich
#37. I'd say all mirrors are magical, or can be.
They show you yourself after all.
Really seeing yourself, though, that's the hard part.
Adam Gidwitz
#39. I think I'm the only senator who does not see a president when I look in the mirror.
Jim DeMint
#40. When I draw a character, very often as I'm doing a face, my face mirrors the expression.
Matthew Ashford
#41. Our words reveal our thoughts; our manners mirror our self-esteem; our actions reflect our character; our habits predict the future.
William Arthur Ward
#42. If you want to know what you look like, look into a mirror. If you want to know how you think, you should write
Dennis Prager
#43. I believe in low lights and trick mirrors.
Andy Warhol
#44. If a person had accused him of meanness, he could have defended himself. But with a dog - you did something cheap to it when you were sure no one was looking, and it was as though you had done it in front of a mirror.
Paula Fox
#45. The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don't die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors.
Chuck Palahniuk
#46. I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.
John Green
#47. Sacred scripture is like a mirror in which we see God, although each in a different way.
Emanuel Swedenborg
#49. Because no one has more thirst for earth, for blood, and for ferocious sexuality than the creatures who inhabit cold mirrors
Alejandra Pizarnik
#50. You can't fool the mirror-what you see is what you are.
Malcolm Forbes
#51. Our soul should be a mirror of Christ; we should reflect every feature: for every grace in Christ there should be a counterpart in us.
Robert M
#52. Mirrors are ice which do not melt: what melts are those who admire themselves in them.
Paul Morand
#53. Substances are like mirrors that let us see things about ourselves that we cannot quite understand.
James Elkins
#54. Engaging with creativity in a serious way is a shamanistic activity, and by extension when you choose to follow a mystical path you cannot have a "normal" life within the community. Your job is to stand outside the community and hold up the mirror.
Kevin Keck
#55. It's an artist's job to show people the world they live in. We hold up mirrors.
Neil Gaiman
#56. At any moment, one company stands in the spotlight of the middle ring in the stock market's never-ending circus. It may not be the biggest corporation in the world, or the most profitable, but somehow it both mirrors and leads the market's broader action.
Alex Berenson
#57. It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.
Chuck Close
#58. Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.
Norm MacDonald
#59. According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected. I have heard, however, that some philosophers, in seeking for truth, to pay homage to her, have seen their own image and adored it instead.
Charles Francis Richter
#60. I looked in the mirror at my pigeon chest, I had to put my clothes on cause it made me depressed.
Ray Davies
#61. Our basic relationship to sex mirrors our whole relationship to life.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#62. We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is.
Stanislaw Lem
#64. I realized then why I was avoiding all the other patients. They were all potential mirrors. What I really feared wasn't the insanity of strangers. What I feared the most was my own disease. I was terrified I would catch a glimpse of myself in passing.
Terri Cheney
#65. One man said, "I looked at my brother through the microscope of criticism, and I said, "How coarse my brother is." Then I looked at my brother through the telescope of scorn, and I said, "How small my brother is." Then I looked into the mirror of truth and I said, "How like me my brother is."
Thomas S. Monson
#66. Nobody ever warned me about mirrors, so for many years I was fond of them, and believed them to be trustworthy ...
Helen Oyeyemi
#67. When you are painting you should take a flat mirror and often look at your work within it, and it will then be seen in reverse, and will appear to be by the hand of some other master, and you will be better able to judge of its faults than in any other way.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#68. This is the only real revelation - that God is only a trick with mirrors, our dark reflection in a glass.
Philip Appleman
#69. Hell is a place where the walls are made of mirrors and you can never close your eyes.
Adam Stanley
#70. Nature is a mirror in which I am reflected, because by rescuing this land from sad devastation [through recreating it in photographs], I am in fact trying to save myself from my own inner sadness.
Mario Giacomelli
#71. Your mind's always juggling, isn't it?-mirrors, torches, plates.
Ray Bradbury
#73. Obviously, family values mirror our personal priorities. Given the gravity of current conditions, would parents be willing to give up just one outside thing, giving that time and talent instead to the family.
Neal A. Maxwell
#74. All faith is false, all faith is true. Truth is the shattered mirror strown in myriad bits, while each believes his little bit the whole to own.
Richard Francis Burton
#75. It's always nice to look in the mirror at the end of the day and see that you helped somebody's life ... even if only a little bit.
Tito Ortiz
#76. Surprisingly, Gestalt psychologists have found that when subjected to Ganz fields for long periods of time, we hallucinate. Can empty fields serve as mirrors, not for our exteriors, but for our interiors?
John Paul Caponigro
#77. Our need to reimagine our world through the vibratory larynx, that's what matters. Re-awaken the world to itself. Through ideas, pictures, sounds. Hold the mirror up to "nature."
Anne Waldman
#78. When we gaze into the eyes of our beloved, we're staring into the eyes of a sacred mirror, and we recognize our oneness.
Alex Grey
#79. The God of Loss.
The God of Small Things.
He left no footprints in the sand, no ripples in water, no image in mirrors.
Arundhati Roy
#80. If you want to see the greatest threat to your financial future, go home and take a look in the mirror.
Jonathan Clements
#81. We are called to be strong companions and clear mirrors to one another, to seek those who reflect with compassion and a keen eye how we are doing, whether we seem centered or off course ... we need the nourishing company of others to create the circle needed for growth, freedom and healing.
Wayne Muller
#82. We pursued the muses, instead of the mirrors.
Adam Gopnik
#83. Regardless of others' reactions, do your best to stay true to yourself. Make the choices that allow you to look in the mirror and feel good about the person gazing back at you.
Steve Pavlina
#84. Sometimes you gotta look yourself in the mirror and say, 'You are the prettiest princess in all the land.' I do it once a week.
Jack Barakat
#85. She has learned, over time, that the way someone laughs often mirrors who they are. How they are.
Laura Dave
#86. Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be.
Elizabeth Fishel
#87. There's nothing we fear more than our own Reflection. We scream at the monsters within us, hidden deep within our hearts. We run and hide from the terrors all around us- the different mirrors that we see.
Solange Nicole
#88. When your consciousness becomes a still mirror, a still lake, a silent reservoir of energy, God is reflected in it.
Rajneesh
#89. Did you ever look in the mirror And see a stranger standing there? Did you ever drive for miles and miles And wonder how on earth you got yourself there?
Justin Hayward
#90. My sex life is terrible; my wife put a mirror over the dog's bed. Actually she did put a mirror over our bed. She says she likes to watch herself laugh.
Rodney Dangerfield
#91. I feel that silence is the greatest word, ever. When you don't talk, people begin to read things into you or you become what they long for. When you don't talk, you almost become the mirror image of the other person.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#92. Roses are red, violets are blue,
This room's a psycho shopping zoo.
The fashion's a disaster, the mirrors are large,
And somebody left a crazy lady with needles in charge.
Debora Geary
#93. I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.
Oscar Wilde
#94. If you chase the art, you really can't fail because you'll always be able to look at yourself in the mirror. And that's not about making angry decisions, either, it's about always doing the right thing for you, your fans and your art.
Gerard Way
#95. Such people are trapped in their own hall of mirrors, and for them there is no escape. They can never know whether they are wrong, even when they are. No evidence, no logic, no reason will ever get through to them.
Richard Carrier
#96. Our lives are complex; our emotions are complex; our intellectual desires are complex. I believe that architecture ... needs to mirror that complexity in every single space that we have, in every intimacy that we possess.
Daniel Libeskind
#97. In general, I think people should be skeptical of the Internet as a reference tool because so much of what's on it is unreliable and costumed - a hall of mirrors.
James Gleick
#98. Perhaps a child, like a cat, is so much inside of himself that he does not see himself in the mirror.
Anais Nin
#99. God, she was a fool. What had she expected him to do? To think?
Hi, you hate me, you put your head through five mirrors to make that point, so I was thinking ...
Michele Jaffe
#100. I'll serve something black. Bean soup, licorice, coffee. It'll be very grim, I promise. We'll cover the mirrors. We'll listen to Piaf. We'll read passages from Dostoyevsky.
Stephanie Kallos
