Quotes About The Mirror

#1. 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

#2. I took my clothes out of the cupboard and looked at myself in the mirror. I dropped the wet towel. i took a long, clear-eyed look at myself. that i was different was nowhere apparent.

Sachin Kundalkar

#3. I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.

Charles Bukowski

#4. Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back.

Mason Cooley

#5. If you're so hell-bent on placing blame, I suggest you look in the mirror.

Maria Semple

#6. The only monster you need to worry about in this life is the one that stares at you from the mirror each morning. You tame him, make friends with him, and the rest of life is nothing you can't handle.

Charles Martin

#7. Back when I was modeling, the first time I went to Italy, I was having cappuccinos every day, and I gained 15 pounds. And I felt gorgeous! I would take my clothes off in front of the mirror and be like, 'Oh, I look like a woman.' And I felt beautiful, and I never tried to lose it, 'cause I loved it.

Christina Hendricks

#8. At the end of the day, I think everybody takes for granted that they get up, get out of bed every morning - just the mere fact that they can stand in front of the mirror and brush their teeth and get in their car and take off? A lot of people take their health for granted.

Brock Lesnar

#9. The mirror enjoyed telling people to "Look it up!

Dinah Havens

#10. I want to look at myself in the mirror at the end of my life and say I've done my share and I'm proud of what I've done.

Angelique Kidjo

#11. How do you let others in when you can't even look in the mirror? The answer is, you can't. But hopefully by showing them that they are lovable, they will start to see the truth.

Rachel Van Dyken

#12. When I was young, every time I criticized someone, my mother would stand me in front of the mirror and say: 'The flaws you see in others are actually a reflection of yourself.' That taught me to pay close attention when I looked at others.

Richard Branson

#13. We have fallen in love with the body. That's that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. That's the repository of that lovely identity that you keep chasing all your life.

George Wald

#14. How could I have missed it? Easy. Deep in grief over Casey leaving, I'd gone on automatic pilot this morning, barely glancing in the mirror as I brushed my hair, smoothed on my makeup. I clamp down on the impulse to dig out a mirror and check out the 'mark.

Magda Alexander

#15. Let me give you a wonderful Zen practice. Wake up in the morning ... look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself.

Bernie Glassman

#16. Don't you, when strangers and friends come to call, straighten the cushions, kick the books under the bed and put away the letter you were writing? How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are? Isn't the mirror hostile enough?

Jeanette Winterson

#17. Stop trying to change the world since it is only the mirror. Man's attempt to change the world by force is as fruitless as breaking a mirror in the hope of changing his face. Leave the mirror and change your face. Leave the world alone and change your conceptions of yourself.

Neville Goddard

#18. How do you make a girl know she's beautiful? What is the system for that, what do you show her, how do you give her a new set of eyes and turn her face back to the mirror?

Michelle Tea

#19. Beck, we gotta go."
"Ok." She made smooch lips to the mirror and then smiled at me. "It's shameful to look this fabulous isn't it?" she said, making me laugh.
"Absolutely, just shameful.

Shelly Crane

#20. The image that stands before you whilst standing in front of the mirror is unique therefore what you are, who you are and what you stand for cannot be quantified nor measured in simple terms your beyond valuable

Lebogang Lynx Bopape

#21. He perceived that this memory-jumbled rag-bag of material was in fact the very heart of her, her self-portrait, the way she looked in the mirror when nobody else was in the room ...

Salman Rushdie

#22. Nobody really knows what they look like. The mirror shows you only what you want to see.

Terry Wogan

#23. Cosmetic surgery is terrifying. It never looks good. Those women look weird. They look in the mirror and think they look great, but they don't see what we see. I think it's hideous. They scare small children.

Jerry Hall

#24. I still want to be an architect and score films and do other things. I always said as long as I've still got teeth and hair and I look cool when I look in the mirror, then I'll do it.

DJ Quik

#25. If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.

Zhuangzi

#26. I'm frightened to look at myself in the mirror because maybe nothing's there.

Melina Marchetta

#27. Can't close my eyes cause all I see is terror
I hate the man in the mirror
Cause his reflection makes the pain turn realer

Tupac Shakur

#28. Look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself, what do I want to do everyday for the rest of my life ... do that.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#29. Teaching at best beckons us to morality, but it is not in itself efficacious. Teaching is like a mirror. It can show you if your face is dirty, but it the mirror will not wash your face.

Ravi Zacharias

#30. It helps to even look in the mirror - and it sounds so cheesy - but if you just look in the mirror and say, 'You are beautiful,' and 'You are worthy,' those things really help you.

Demi Lovato

#31. 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

#32. Like families, competitors can bring out the worst as well as the best in each other. Like romance, competition has many faces, some of them ugly. In addition to showing me my grace and graciousness, the mirror of sports has reflected back to me my jealousy, pettiness, and arrogance.

Mariah Nelson

#33. When you look in the mirror and despair and none of your clothes seem appropriate, relax, put the kettle on. It might suit you.

Simon Munnery

#34. Sometimes, like we all do, I look at myself in the mirror. Sometimes I cry. Like a really hard cry like you just watch yourself cry but then you're done and you're just glowing and you're staring at yourself.

Dane Cook

#35. The mighty hero of extraordinary powers, able to lift Mount Govardhan on a finger, and to fill himself with the terrible glory of the universe, is each of us: not the physical self visible in the mirror, but the King within.

Joseph Campbell

#36. I don't look at myself in the mirror. I'll flash past a mirror in the morning to check how I'm dressed, that's it.

Elle Macpherson

#37. Oh my God ...
Xhex's heart stopped as she looked at him in the mirror. Across his upper back, in a glorious spread of black ink ... in a declaration that didn't whisper but shouted ... in a billboard-size front with flourishes ...
Her name in the Old Language.

J.R. Ward

#38. But you used to know a good thing when you saw it.

Trouble is, that's never what I see when I look in the mirror.

What do you see? He looked at her.

Sometimes I don't see anything at all.

Ian Rankin

#39. The ravaged face in the mirror hides the enchanting youth that is the real me.

Mason Cooley

#40. When I look in the mirror, I won't see the things they will most likely say about me. I'll see me, Willow Tate, the woman who isn't perfect, but she is perfect in her imperfections.

Harper Sloan

#41. Your words become the mirror in which others see themselves.

Sharon Jaynes

#42. Everything that you want in life, is possible. But the reflection in the mirror will always show who is reflecting. One can't change the reflection without changing himself.

Robin Sacredfire

#43. Sonia met my eyes in the mirror. 'You know, people come to Italy for all sorts of reasons, but when they stay its for the same two things.' 'What?' 'Love and gelato.' 'Amen,' Howard said.

Jenna Evans Welch

#44. If you could get rid of yourself just once, the secret of secrets would open to you. The face of the unknown, hidden beyond the universe would appear on the mirror of your perception.

Rumi

#45. He met her eyes in the mirror. "I thought you weren't talking to me ever again."
"I'm not," she said ... "I'm talking to myself while you eavesdrop.

Suzanne Brockmann

#46. I was considered attractive in those days, some people even called me beautiful, though my skin was never good and it was this that I noticed when I looked in the mirror

Nicole Krauss

#47. Far, far below the chariot's path, Calm as a slumbering babe, Tremendous Ocean lay. The mirror of its stillness showed The pale and waning stars, The chariot's fiery track, And the gray light of morn Tinging those fleecy clouds That canopied the dawn.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#48. When you look down, you see your body. When you look in the mirror, you see yourself.

Jenna Alatari

#49. The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.

Karl Kraus

#50. It's not a prerequisite for an actor to be obsessed about his looks. I know there are people who don't look in the mirror at all, and I'm getting there.

Hrithik Roshan

#51. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me.

Elie Wiesel

#52. Nothing," said he in the mirror, "I am only waiting. I am waiting for death."
"Where is death then?"
"Coming," said the other.

Hermann Hesse

#53. Of course, like any woman, I look in the mirror and think, 'Oh, wouldn't I look better with a bit of Botox?' But you've got to find comfort in your own skin. I've watched women stretch themselves year after year until their faces are no longer recognisable.

Amanda Donohoe

#54. In a psychomantium glass topples darkness. Things appear as they really are, people appear as they really are. Visions are called from a point inside the mirror, from a point inside the mind.

Helen Oyeyemi

#55. Are you a Christian? she said.

I answered:
I am a Christian, I am a Jew, I am a Catholic, I am Muslim.

I am each and everyone of you my child, look into the mirror and you will see me,
as i see you..

Faruk H.T.

#56. That Man, who flees from truth, should have invented the mirror is the greatest of historical miracles.

Christian Friedrich Hebbel

#57. I keep the shutters closed because I like to work in a hermetic environment. I like mirrors. When you look out of the window, all you see is ugliness, but when you look in the mirror all you see is beauty.

Sebastian Horsley

#58. Dora pushed the mirror, sending it shattering to the floor. "Whoops." She turned to face Dee and pulled off her dark glasses to reveal the mirrors of her eyes. "You should go now. You've got about three seconds." Dee didn't quite make it out of the shop before it exploded.

Michael Scott

#59. The mirror follows us, but it's not a friend. (Le miroir nous suit, - Mais n'est un ami.)

Charles De Leusse

#60. Do me a favor. Go to the mirror, look at yourself, and then tell me if I should value your opinions. Your pants are still open by the way.

Kenya Wright

#61. Do you have a shoulder to cry on?
Someone who would listen to your deepest woes without judging you?
Or is it just you and the image in the mirror?

Sanhita Baruah

#62. 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

#63. Some people are quick to challenge others but refuse to look in the mirror and challenge themselves.

Behdad Sami

#64. 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

#65. Even though I am a lifelong 'Doctor Who' fan, I've not played him since I was nine. I downloaded old scripts and practised those in front of the mirror.

Peter Capaldi

#66. The joke's on them. One little hypodermic wont' be enough. Split a piece of wood, and they'll find me. Lift up a stone, and they'll find me. Look in the mirror, and they'll find me ... If you really want to know what makes someone a killer, ask yourself what would make you do it.

Jodi Picoult

#67. We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?'

Damon Lindelof

#68. Will you be so kind as to provide me with a few places where I might look for a murderer?"
"The mirror's a great place to start

Rachel Caine

#69. I did the drawing and writing - for five years. I made a lot of short films the whole while and I made a promise to myself in front of the mirror that I would stop drawing when I signed my first contract for a feature film.

Patrice Leconte

#70. Racism defends our greed, frees us from self-control and makes others responsible for our failings. It is an attempt to silence the guilt so we can look in the mirror.

Mari Serebrov

#71. From the corner of my eye, the Ghost of Mother Past sits in her queenly bedroom chair in front of the mirror, glittering there in the evening light.

Kate Ellison

#72. If I sat back and decided to sell the product of my father and my grandfather's work, like a leech, you know I wouldn't be able to look at myself in the mirror ... I want to be able to look at my father in 10 years' time and say, 'I'm proud of you, and you should be proud of me.'

James Packer

#73. You don't have to enjoy life, you simply have to do the best you can at it. Because every day you wake up and see yourself in the mirror, and that reflection is something you can never get away from. Not ever.

Gwen Hunter

#74. You may wish that some parts of (your face) were different, but the actual fact is shown in the mirror. Now, can you look at your conditioning in a similar way?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#75. Ready or not, I peer into your soul and dive deep... Your eyes don't like what I see. You don't want to be me. So you curse and smash the mirror which gets you what? A bit of blood , a handful of glass splinters, another source of pain.

Nikki Grimes

#76. I had endless issues with my appearance in Star Wars. Real ones - not ones you bring up so people think you're humble because you secretly find yourself adorable. What I saw in the mirror is not apparently what many teenage boys saw.

Carrie Fisher

#77. If you can't look in the mirror and genuinely love 100% of what you see, how can you possibly say "i love you" to someone else.

Behdad Sami

#78. I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man?

Jim Garrison

#79. When man meets himself upon the reflexion of the mirror, it is always advisable to ask the question "Who are you?". If an unsatisfactory answer comes forth, then one must delve into the far reaches of Self and understand why he failed to answer this simple, yet transcending question.

P.A. Wunderlich

#80. You can be the most beautiful woman in the world and see yourself as hideous. You must love yourself. To look in the mirror and tell yourself that you're a rock star.

Demi Lovato

#81. Our eyes meet in the mirror but neither of us speaks; we are afraid that whatever words we pick won't be able to bear the weight of what's happened.

Jodi Picoult

#82. So when I look in the mirror I'm driven by both vanity and fear.

Andy Whitfield

#83. Reflect the light of love by becoming the mirror of kindness.

Debasish Mridha

#84. She stood in the mirror portrait very near Margaret, close next to her, good as a mother or a friend.

Ida Hattemer-Higgins

#85. This is the Self-Esteem Looking-Glass. You have to look in the mirror and compliment yourself.

Malia Ann Haberman

#86. We are so afraid of silence that we chase ourselves from one event to the next in order not to have to spend a moment alone with ourselves, in order not to have to look at ourselves in the mirror.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#87. I'm not going to lie: I still have days when I walk by the mirror on my way to the shower and think, 'Oh God, I didn't just see that!'

Sara Ramirez

#88. If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one's life, without seeing oneself in the "mirror" of literature?

Leon Trotsky

#89. Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.

Jeanne Moreau

#90. What is the mirror of Being? Non-being. Bring non-being as your gift, if you are not a fool.

Rumi

#91. My real friends never hearin from me, fake friends write the wrong answers on the mirror for me

Drake

#92. He can look harmless if he wants to. He is the consummate actor, but unless he works at it, his eyes give him away. If the eyes are the mirror to the soul, then Edward's in trouble because no one is home. He

Laurell K. Hamilton

#93. The funny thing about having any kind of moustache or beard is it grows on you - in two ways. I mean, it grows on you. It also becomes part of your identity. I've had it for 40 years. I don't think I would recognize the person in the mirror without it.

John W. Boyer

#94. I hope you learn how to slow down and not let your life pass you by while you're watching the idiot box. Life's short, and one day you'll wake up and look in the mirror and realize you look like King Tut.

K. Martin Beckner

#95. He accepted me for who I was, scabs and all. But he refused to accept that that was all I was. And when someone believes in you, goes out on a limb for you when they have no obligation to do shit - it has an impact. It made me want to look in the mirror and see the man he knew I could be. And

Emma Chase

#96. One day when I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.

Elie Wiesel

#97. You need to do whatever it takes for you to look in the mirror and be happy with the person looking back." I

N.E. Conneely

#98. Death is the black backing on the mirror that allows us to see anything at all.

Saul Bellow

#99. Always be just and honest so that every time you look at the mirror you don't see an abominable creature on it!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#100. Everyone sees only their own reflection in the mirror of thought.

Marty Rubin