Mirrors Quotes
1733 Mirrors quotes by 1199 unique authors
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Just imagine living in a world without mirrors. You'd dream about your face and imagine it as an outer reflection of what is inside you.…
— Milan Kundera
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I got out of the tub and had to squelch a scream when I saw my reflection in the vanity mirror. My hair looked like…
— Janet Evanovich
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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.…
— Maeve Brennan
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All I know is that once Julián told the kids in the building that he had a sister only he could see. He said she…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Far away, in the meadow, shadows flickered in the Mirror's Maze, as if parts of someone's life, yet unborn, were trapped there, waiting to be…
— Ray Bradbury
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He is not simply looking into the mirror because he is transfixed by what he sees. Rather, the artist’s success depends as much as anything…
— Philip Roth
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A sense of security, of well-being, of summer warmth pervades my memory. That robust reality makes a ghost of the present. The mirror brims with…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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grief is a house where the chairs have forgotten how to hold us the mirrors how to reflect us the walls how to contain us…
— Jandy Nelson
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We have fallen in the dreams the ever-living Breathe on the tarnished mirror of the world, And then smooth out with ivory hands and sigh.
— William Butler Yeats
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Maybe you saw her first? Caught a glimpse between the lines, between the letters, like a ghost in the mirror, a ghost in the wings?
— Mark Z. Danielewski
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Once or twice a week I would set my alarm for six A.M. so I could get up and plug in Hot Stix...I would study…
— Tina Fey
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Suddenly, I was just sure he was going to kiss me. He was there, I could feel his breath, the ground solid beneath us. But…
— Sarah Dessen
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The thing about a mirror is this: The one who stares into it is condemned to consider the world from her own perspective.
— Gregory Maguire
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The movement of the heart as we practice generosity in the outer world mirrors the movement of the heart when we let go of conditioned…
— Sharon Salzberg
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I shut the bathroom door and caught sight of my face in the mirror. I had no idea how quickly it was to change, to…
— Ruta Sepetys
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It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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... reality stands before them, yet they don't see it, because what you call real is just the mirror image of your expectations.
— Deepak Chopra
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To these people, unhappiness was a condition, an intolerable state of affairs. If pills could help, pills were taken. But pills were not going to…
— Mitch Albom
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Literature is claimed to be a mirror of the world,” I said, “but the Outlanders are fooling themselves. The BookWorld is as orderly as people…
— Jasper Fforde
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I have done so many things in my life," she said to the mirror. "Evil things, perhaps. But never unattentively, never wastefully...was I wrong?
— Lawrence Durrell
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A Margo for each of us--and each more mirror than window.
— John Green
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Stories are in one way or another mirrors. We use them to explain to ourselves how the world works or how it doesn’t work. Like…
— Neil Gaiman
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Riley squinted. He ran his fingers along my neck. When he found the collar he explored the surface and tried to tug it. "No seams.…
— Maria V. Snyder
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The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.
— Fernando Pessoa
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Before The World Was Made If I make the lashes dark and the eyes more bright and the lips more scarlet, or ask if all…
— William Butler Yeats
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