Quotes About Reflection In Glass

#1. And since you know you cannot see yourself,
so well as by reflection, I, your glass,
will modestly discover to yourself,
that of yourself which you yet know not of.

William Shakespeare

#2. Things which had at first felt like signs, if I analysed them for too long, ended up feeling like the movements of my own reflection in dark glass.

Olivia Sudjic

#3. The reflection of the flame in the glass seems to be touching the hand. And you feel the helpless fear of these dismembered parts. This sort of thing can hardly be visualized at the script stage.

Terence Fisher

#4. Their reflection in the glass. The water behind them stretched distant and black. I stood in the doorway a long, long time, unsure of what to do or say. I wasn't interested in their

Colum McCann

#5. At the window of my room, I catch my reflection in the glass. Shaggy black hair. Sneer.I look like a hungry ghost, glowering in at a world I am no longer fit to be a part of.

Holly Black

#6. This was the type of man who looked at a picture on the wall and instead of admiring the photo, looked at his own reflection in the glass. I

Ruta Sepetys

#7. I sat down, turning the pages of my notebook in search of a blank page, in the dim light of my room. The arrival of nightfall had invited leafy shadows to play hide and seek in the glass reflection of the window. I smiled as one of these mischievous shadows crept across the page in a midnight dance.

Gina Marinello-Sweeney

#8. I do still get shocked every once in a while when I catch my reflection when I'm walking past a glass building, but it's in my mind about getting older and finding out what I'm going to look like as it unfolds - or as it folds, depending on where the marks and scars land.

Dave Matthews

#9. My world is a million shattered pieces put together, glued by my tears, where each piece is nothing but a reflection of YOU.

Sanhita Baruah

#10. He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in Man ... For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his reflection in the glass.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#11. The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice.

William Makepeace Thackeray

#12. I didn't move; I just waited out the night. The school was quiet around me, and I let the silence calm my heartbreak, lull me into a sleepless trance as I stared past my reflection in the dark glass, and whispered, "Happy birthday, Daddy.

Ally Carter

#13. His smugness was annoying. This was the type of man who looked at a picture on the wall and instead of admiring the photo, looked at his own reflection in the glass.

Ruta Sepetys

#14. She sang in harmony. Not, of course, with her reflection in the glass, because that kind of heroine will sooner or later end up singing a duet with Mr. Bluebird and other forest creatures and then there's nothing for it but a flamethrower.

Terry Pratchett

#15. I know that mirrors give us a false sense of confidence." I continued. "The reflection that we see everyday has nothing to do with how others see us. The glass lies.

Rasmenia Massoud

#16. What do you mean, Phib? asked Miss Squeers, looking in her own little glass, where, like most of us, she saw - not herself, but the reflection of some pleasant image in her own brain.

Charles Dickens

#17. Wherever the gaze rests, art will draw it also elsewhere, will remind that there is always more. Alice does not stop and face her own reflection in the looking-glass: she travels through it.

Jane Hirshfield

#18. A mirror can contain the reflection of the whole universe, a whole skyful of stars in a piece of silvered glass no thicker than a breath.

Terry Pratchett

#19. I had hung my shaving glass by the window, and was just beginning to shave. Suddenly I felt a hand on my shoulder, and heard the Count's voice saying to me, "Good morning." I started, for it amazed me that I had not seen him, since the reflection of the glass covered the whole room behind me.

Bram Stoker

#20. It was as if life elsewhere was a reflection through a dusty glass, and this was the real deal.

Chrystalla Thoma

#21. The world is a looking-glass which flings back to us the reflection of ourselves. If we laugh it laughs back at us. If we shed tears, it reflects a sorrowful face.

Orison Swett Marden

#22. This is the only real revelation - that God is only a trick with mirrors, our dark reflection in a glass.

Philip Appleman

#23. I had a small looking glass on the wall and I stood before it and gazed at my own reflection.

Philippa Gregory

#24. The world is a looking glass. It gives back to every man a true reflection of his own thoughts. Rule your mind or it will rule you.

Gautama Buddha

#25. I stare at my reflection in the glass, and I see two versions of myself: the twin sister, and the bride.
"It was supposed to be better than this," I whisper.

Lauren DeStefano

#26. In that smooth fortress of glass, I caught a glimpse of my corruption gripping steel, which before I had thought of as my salvation, but now represented my obliteration.

J.D. Stroube

#27. It is not a question of observation which propels mankind forward as if toward a looking glass of great magnitude; it is an instance of aggrandized reflection that insinuates the human psyche to the inhuman.

Gaston Bachelard

#28. It is 11 years since I have seen my figure in a glass [mirror]. The last reflection I saw there was so disagreeable I resolved to spare myself such mortification in the future.

Mary Wortley Montagu

#29. That icy glass reduces your beauty - dims your fire - let me be your mirror ...

John Geddes

#30. There is a wonderful expression: seeing through a glass darkly. Everything, even life, is inevitably removed from you. You can't reach, or touch, the real. You just see reflections

Douglas Sirk

#31. I turned to the window. A single raindrop fell against it, and seeing my reflection in the glass, I suddenly knew why Finn's eyes were familiar.
They were exactly like mine.

Pamela Nicole

#32. Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.

Mary Astell

#33. 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

#34. Lust is like a robin attacking his reflection in a pane of glass again and again.

Leslie Daniels

#35. I was not at ease that night. I was a prey to an immense distress. I sat as if I had fallen into my chair. As on the first day I looked at my reflection in the glass, and all I could do was just what I had done then, simply cry, I!

Henri Barbusse