Mirrors Quotes

1733 Mirrors quotes by 1199 unique authors

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though… — Ralph Ellison
If I make the lashes dark And the eyes more bright And the lips more scarlet, Or ask if all be right From mirror after… — William Butler Yeats
Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies. — Julio Cortazar
He was a physicist, more precisely an astrophysicist, diligent and eager but without illusions: the Truth lay beyond, inaccessible to our telescopes, accessible to the… — Primo Levi
Have you ever had so much to say that your mouth closed up tight struggling to harness the nuclear force coalescing within your words? Have… — Ellen Hopkins
It's more interesting to be out in the world. than to see it reflected in the mirror. — Steve Lopez
One magician demanded I show him an image of the love of his life. I rustled up a mirror. — Jonathan Stroud
A human being - what is a human being? Everything and nothing. Through the power of thought it can mirror everything it experiences. Through memory… — Guy de Maupassant
The mirror crack'd from side to side "The curse has come upon me," cried The Lady of Shalott — Alfred Lord Tennyson
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… — Chuck Palahniuk
But I never looked like that!’ - How do you know? What is the ‘you’ you might or might not look like? Where do you… — Roland Barthes
Speed damages our souls because living fast consumes every ounce of our energy. Speed has a deafening roar that drowns our the whispering voices of… — Mike Yaconelli
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… — Stanislaw Lem
I too love everything that flows: rivers, sewers, lava, semen, blood, bile, words, sentences. I love the amniotic fluid when it spills out of the… — Henry Miller
Here is a list of terrible things, The jaws of sharks, a vultures wings The rabid bite of the dogs of war, The voice of… — Clive Barker
What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is… — Margaret Atwood
The American mirror, said the voice, the sad American mirror of wealth and poverty and constant useless metamorphosis, the mirror that sails and whose sails… — Roberto Bolano
It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.'… — Isaac Asimov
That's how I do this life sometimes by making the ordinary just like magic and just like a card trick and just like a mirror… — Sherman Alexie
There are shadows for the shadows of things, as a reflection seen in a mirror of a mirror. We know there are circles within circles… — Louis L'Amour
Mirrors should think longer before they reflect. — Jean Cocteau
He was resentful against all those in authority over him, and this, combined with a lazy indifference toward his work, exasperated every master in school.… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness. — Drew Barrymore
Without thinking, I knelt in the grass, like someone meaning to pray. When I tried to stand again, I couldn't move, my legs were utterly… — Louise GluÌˆck

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