Top 100 Quotes About Mirrors
#1. I'm afraid that's the wicked way of the world. Everything's covered in smoke and mirrors.
Lemony Snicket
#2. By the grace of the Lady, whose face mirrors my own, may I ever remember I am made in her image, blessed and beautiful.
Dianne Sylvan
#3. How roundly self-examination is condemned, by the moral prophets of our age! As if the self had no relation to the self, and one only looked in mirrors to have one's arrogance confirmed; as if the act of self-regarding was not as subtle, fraught and ever-changing as any bond between twin souls.
Eleanor Catton
#4. Often I listen to songs on repeat for days and days at a time. There's something hypnotic or meditative, and it mirrors the way that I am putting the sentence together, going back over the same phrases again and again.
Eleanor Catton
#5. Involved in my own entrails and a crust Turning a pitted surface towards a space, I am a world that watches through a sky And is persuaded by mirrors To regard its being as an external shell, One of a universe of stars and faces.
Stephen Spender
#6. You humans love mirrors. You have to constantly make sure you still have the same face. Nothing scares you more than if someone changes it.
Cornelia Funke
#7. Hate hates what it mirrors or envies.
T.F. Hodge
#8. My true relationship is with myself - all others are simply mirrors of it.
Shakti Gawain
#9. There were no mirrors nearby to pose in front of, but I was convinced I was looking pretty awesome.
Paul Regnier
#10. Most intelligent men and women like to go forth into the world and stalk their own prey, choose their own mirrors of dysfunction ...
Laurie Viera Rigler
#11. There's eyes behind the mirrors in empty places.
Bob Dylan
#12. Some days I tell myself that my mission is to say something about the art and sometimes the bliss of limitation. And the legibility of landscape. Other days are more dismal. As if I were queueing in the rain outside confessional literature's nudist colony, mirrors everywhere, blue with cold.
Fredrik Sjoberg
#13. God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors. And I've an inkling that there are times when we need to drive a long, long distance, before we can look back and see God's back in the rearview mirror. Maybe sometimes about as far as heaven
that kind of distance.
Ann Voskamp
#14. I don't want him to be looking at me, wearing the expression that mirrors my own feelings.
Colleen Hoover
#16. With him, I became utterly myself as never before - and, to my astonishment, when I looked into his eyes like mirrors reflecting myself back to me, I admired the person I beheld there.
Sherry Jones
#17. I liked the idea of having actual magic performed as stage magic, so you could assume that it was just a trick, that something is all smoke and mirrors, but there's that, like, feeling at the back of your mind: What if it's not?
Erin Morgenstern
#18. But there was the mirror in which I would glimpse his handsome form, because mirrors don't lie about men, only women.
Gregory Maguire
#19. Never had there been such an opportunity for the dissemination of knowledge ... . But the obverse is also true. We can have thrust upon us a false picture of reality as distorting as the trick mirrors in a Coney Island funhouse.
Howard E. Koch
#20. Bewilderment increases in the presence of the mirrors.
Tarjei Vesaas
#21. I am not sure that the greatest man of his age, if ever that solitary superlative existed, could escape these unfavourable reflections of himself in various small mirrors; and even Milton, looking for his portrait in a spoon, must submit to have the facial angle of a bumpkin.
George Eliot
#23. Write something about me then,' he said when I came back. He grinned. 'Go on! Now! I bet you can!'
'I don't do portraits, Choe.'
The lies liberated from this statement skittered off into infinity like images between two mirrors.
M. John Harrison
#24. The true value of somebody in this town is very hard to determine. It's all smoke and mirrors.
Mark Ruffalo
#25. How Can Mirrors Be Real If Our Eyes Aren't Real.
Jaden Smith
#26. This is not your mom's fairy tale.'
From a review of my novel, 'Course of Mirrors.
Ashen Venema
#27. I tear at the air with glass nails
that have learned to scale
mountains of mirrors.
Valentina Cano
#28. All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors.
Jacques Lacan
#29. Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out of the darkness so you can get a good look at it.
Charles De Lint
#31. If beauty is in the eye of the beholder are mirrors a waste of time?
Diane Keaton
#32. But it was something else, too, that I wanted to extend: the taut and pleasant silence in the car, the stale heat raising vapours of leather. The warped image of myself in the side mirrors, so I caught only the quantity of hair, the freckled skin of my shoulder. I took on the shape of a girl.
Emma Cline
#33. Ever play 'mirror mirror on the wall' with two mirrors facing each other?
Josh Stern
#34. The whole world seemed a maze of shifting mirrors in which I wandered alone, looking always and frenziedly for the exit back into my real life, where people had substance, did as they said they would, and were whole.
Claire Messud
#35. Maybe Ferrari's mirrors are excellent & have HD resolution
Sebastian Vettel
#36. there are three mirrors that form a person's reflection; the first is how you see yourself, the second is how others see you and the third mirror reflects the truth. Know
Robin S. Sharma
#37. His final touches completed, His Highness offers me his arm. On Wednesdays I'm now required to enter the grand assembly in the Hall of Mirrors on his arm like a glowing trophy. Not the kind of trophy one wins for completing a challenge, the kind one stuffs and hangs on the wall after killing it.
Aprilynne Pike
#38. Ingenuousness is skewed by the cracks in the mirrors of the eye caused by the blunders of the insincere
T-anne Constable
#39. Poor Finnick. Is this the first time in your life you haven't looked pretty?" I say.
"It must be. The sensation is completely new. How have you managed it all these years?" he asks.
"Just avoid mirrors. You'll forget about it," I say.
Suzanne Collins
#40. I think that electronic music mirrors the complexity of "information landscapes." You carry the terrain in your mind.
DJ Spooky
#41. I really didn't like 'Done With Mirrors.' I really didn't like 'Just Push Play.' Then there are other records I really think were good for their time, like 'Toys and Rocks.'
Joe Perry
#42. My own sense of the world is that very little is absolute or black and white or easily understood. I suppose in all my writing I'm trying to cast the reader into this spiritually ambivalent dream world, which hopefully mirrors more honestly the complex reality we find ourselves in.
Andre Dubus
#43. Your words are like mirrors.
They may cut, but they also reflect.
Timothy Joshua
#44. Prayer mirrors the gospel. In the gospel, the Father takes us as we are and gives us his gift of salvation. In prayer, the Father receives us as we are because of Jesus and gives us his gift of help.
Paul E. Miller
#45. To pick a modern image we once heard, but can't remember where: life is like driving a car with its front window opaque. All you have to go by are your rearview mirrors.
Amos Oz
#46. I felt I grew up when I was about 28. I feel pretty much the same. I get reminded when I look in mirrors that I am not. Hopefully, you keep growing and keep planning things as you go along.
Naomi Watts
#47. We often think that language mirrors the world in which we live, and I find that's not true. The language actually makes the world in which we live. Language is not - I mean, things don't have any mutable value by themselves; we ascribe them a value.
Chris Abani
#48. I've always been afraid that somewhere, future time travelers flip through our mirrors as if they were t.v. screens, catching our most awkward and personal moments.
Fran Krause
#49. To forgive others, in order to forgive ourselves, because in their roles as our mirrors, they have been nothing other than a tool to our lack of self-love, a lack of self-recognition, and a lack of self-respect.
Human Angels
#50. No, all that David could think about was the head of the deer-girl, for her face rubbed against his as they rode, her warm blood smeared his cheek, and he saw himself reflected in the dark green mirrors of her eyes.
John Connolly
#51. Halfway through the afternoon the sun appeared from behind the blanket of clouds left by the storm. The shining streets were transformed into mirrors, on which pedestrians walked, reflecting the amber of the sky.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#52. Where we live in the world
is never one place. Our hearts,
those dogged mirrors, keep flashing us
moons before we are ready for them.
Naomi Shihab Nye
#53. The water caught the Falselight glimmer like layers of shifting, translucent mirrors and formed split-second works of art in the air, but men cursed it anyway, because it made their heads wet.
Scott Lynch
#54. The Road to success is a pattern that mirrors your behavior for the next halfway
Jinzo Sloatch
#55. What you find in the mirror you will find in the reality it mirrors.
William Barrett
#56. Mirrors are there when we are and yet they never give anything back to us but our own image. Never, never shall we know what they are when they are alone or what is behind them.
Erich Maria Remarque
#57. A big group of daily friends or a white painted house with bills and mirrors, are not a necessity to me - but an intelligent conversation while sharing another coffee, is.
Charlotte Eriksson
#58. What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I'm someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.
Paulo Coelho
#59. I use to live in a room full of mirrors, all I could see was me.
Jimi Hendrix
#60. I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.
Claude Chabrol
#61. We enter the dressing room where mirrors are waiting to laugh at me.
Parneshia Jones
#62. He sparked on his body that reflect like mini mirrors of diamond
Stephenie Meyer
#63. Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them.
Logan Pearsall Smith
#64. I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.
Syd Barrett
#65. Growing up, others girls wanted to dance and help their mums with the cooking. I liked to play soccer with the boys. Or I'd be off on my own, tilting mirrors towards the sun in order to burn armies of ants. That was my idea of fun.
Ali Larter
#66. I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.
Jimi Hendrix
#67. Usually you can only catch the Sasquatch blur of your own legendary moments in the side mirrors.
Joe Hill
#68. Oh!" Karimah says. "It's one minute to midnight. You and Jonah and Prince had better hurry to the room of mirrors. One, two -
Sarah Mlynowski
#69. Agatha, what do you see when you look in the mirror?"
"I don't look in mirrors."
"Why is that?"
"Because horses and hogs don't sit around ogling their reflections!
Soman Chainani
#70. The best among our writers are doing their accustomed work of mirroring what is deep in the spirit of our time; if chaos appears in those mirrors, we must have faith that in the future, as always in the past, that chaos will slowly reveal itself as a new aspect of order.
Robertson Davies
#71. You look very handsome, Papa," I say.
The twinkle is back in his eyes. "Smoke and mirrors," he says with a wink. "Smoke and mirrors.
Libba Bray
#72. What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway?
Julie Burchill
#73. I mean, I did a film, a musical of 'Scrooge', in '70, and the tricks were done by flat clothes and mirrors. I hope that the day will come when we don't have to turn up at all.
Albert Finney
#74. If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
Bertolt Brecht
#75. Mirrors in metal, and the masked
Mirror of mahogany that in its mist
Of a red twilight hazes
The face that is gazed on as it gazes
Jorge Luis Borges
#76. Our hearts are like polished mirrors. We need to wipe it clean regularly of the dust that gathers on it.
Norhafsah Hamid
#77. I have tried a little kinky stuff. A woman called me and said, 'I have mirrors all over my bedroom. Bring a bottle.' I brought Windex.
Rodney Dangerfield
#79. Trading old broken mirrors that feed lies into our souls for new mirrors of freedom requires choices.
Danielle Bernock
#80. Children delight in folk-tale and fairy lore, but the very little child loves best the story which mirrors the familiar. And it is for him, and for the mother who is striving in this age of profusion to guard the innate simplicity of her child's nature, that I have written my little stories.
Maud Lindsay
#81. They were mirrors to each other. Gwinvere Kirena would have been perfect for him - if he could love what he saw in the mirror.
Brent Weeks
#82. Writing about why you write is a funny business, like scratching what doesn't itch. Impulses are mysterious, and explaining them must be done with mirrors, like certain cunning slight-of-hand routines.
Patricia Hampl
#83. Cyclists. I really hate them. I wish they would not be so self-righteous and realise they are a danger to pedestrians. I wish cyclists would not vindictively snap off wing mirrors on cars when they were trying to cross in front of the car at a danger to motorists and pedestrians.
A.S. Byatt
#84. People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they're reflecting too ... Reflections of reflections and echoes of echoes. No beginning and no end. No center and no purpose.
Ayn Rand
#85. You don't need me. What you really need is a mirror. Because any stranger is for you simply a mirror in which to reflect yourself. I don't ever again want to return to such a desert of mirrors.
Kobo Abe
#86. I reached for her through the darkness, but she was gone. Like dominoes folding over, the rest of the mirrors collapsed down on top of me. The impact caused the world around me to vanish.
Ada Adams
#88. For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population of phantoms resembling me increases. Somewhere they live, somewhere they multiply. I alone do not exist.
Vladimir Nabokov
#89. There was a crash like the falling parts of a dream fashioned out of warped glass, mirrors, and crystal prisms.
Ray Bradbury
#90. I'd like to show how 'intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members' connects with 'the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#91. Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
Jean Cocteau
#92. Neither at things, nor at people should one look. Only in mirrors should one look, for mirrors do but show us masks.
Oscar Wilde
#93. In the heart of appeasement there's the fear of rejection, and in acts of fear there are mirrors of oppression.
Criss Jami
#94. The sad thing is that somehow, it is a type of event that mirrors the artist. You take it into account, and you're reminded in this specific case what the artist's work is about, what his life is like, and how life mirrors art.
Massimiliano Gioni
#95. If you look at it the other way round, that's the only reason why this world is inside of me. Maybe it's a paradox, like an image reflected to infinity in a pair of facing mirrors. I am a part of this world, and this world is a part of me.
Haruki Murakami
#96. Which all goes to show that it is hard to hide how you feel, when mirrors are out there everywhere, just waiting to pounce.
Anne Nesbet
#97. The only monsters in this world are those who pass for human, who cast shadows and are reflected in mirrors, who smile and speak of compassion and shed convincing tears.
Dean Koontz
#98. Mirrors that hide nothing hurt me. But this is the hurt of purging and precious renewal - and these are the mirrors of dangerous grace.
Walter Wangerin Jr.
#99. Even if God forgives you, you do not forgive yourself. You live in your sorrow like a room of mirrors that reflects on and on to eternity.
Rebecca Johns
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