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Quotes About Mirror

Not that it was beautiful, but that, in the end, there was a certain sense of order there; something worth learning in that narrow diary of my mind, in the commonplaces of the asylum where the cracked mirror or my own selfish death outstared me ... I tapped my own head; it was glass, an inverted bowl. It's a small thing to rage inside your own bowl. At first it was private. Then it was more than myself.
~ Linda Gray Sexton
Theatre is a mirror, a sharp reflection of society. The greatest playwrights are moralists.
~ Yasmina Reza
Patriarchy's chief institution is the family. It is both a mirror of and a connection with the larger society; a patriarchal unit within a patriarchal whole.
~ Kate Middleton
All too often the church holds up a mirror reflecting back the society around it, rather than a window revealing a different way.
~ Philip Yancey
When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
In original nature There is no this and that. The Great Round Mirror Has no likes or dislikes.
~ Seungsahn
Mirror mirror on the wall, show the real me or naught at all.
~ Gautama Buddha
According to James 1:22-25, we can experience God's truth so powerfully that what the Lord wants us to do becomes as plain to us as our face in the morning mirror. But if we do not apply the truth as we meet it, regardless of how wonderful the experience of discovering the truth has been, we deceive ourselves if we think we will be blessed for giving attention to the Bible on those occasions. The one who "will be blessed in his doing" is the one who does what Scripture says.
~ Donald S. Whitney
Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.
~ Doris Lessing
The world is a mirror representing the divine life.
~ William A. Dembski
The extreme side of my personality, which I chose to sort of display, was snowballing and getting a life of its own. It was like looking in a mirror and not recognising myself.
~ Brian Molko
The man is a monster. The worst I have ever seen, in fact, since I last looked in the mirror. The truth? I am rotting too. I am buried alive, and already rotting. If I was not such a coward I would kill myself, but I am, and so I must content myself with killing others in the hope that one day, if I can only wade deep enough in blood, I will come out clean.
~ Joe Abercrombie
She had a crooked smile on her face as she turned, but it slid off suddenly when she saw who was standing there. Glokta snorted. 'Don't worry, I get that reaction from everyone. Even myself, every morning, when I look into the mirror.' If I can even manage to stand up in front of the damn thing.
~ Joe Abercrombie
She catches sight of herself in the mirror. Go in fear of hyperbole)
~ Ann Lauterbach
He saw the young man's face in the mirror up on the wall, he saw the thick wind-ruffled hair and the little scar on the cheekbone. The face moved in the mirror and when he looked round he could not see it anywhere in the room, and when he wanted to call out the sickness choked him, and now he tried to fight the icy sickness, but like whales the waves of it fell on him till he was pounded and drowned, and while he froze suffocating and could not move or breathe...
~ Anna Kavan
But that thread isn't Andulvar. It should be, since he's the Master of the Guard, but it's someone else. Someone who isn't here yet, someone who can guide me to the answers I need to walk that other path." *The thread not tell you its name?* "It says the mirror is coming. What kind of answer is—" Tensing, Jaenelle scrambled to her knees. "Daemon," she whispered. "Daemon.
~ Anne Bishop
Nevin, A. M. The Social Mirror: A Character Sketch of the Women of Pittsburgh and Vicinity during the First Century of the County's Existence. Pittsburgh, PA: T. W. Nevin, 1888.
~ Annejet van der Zijl
Pornography is like a mirror through which we can take a look at ourselves. And sometimes what we see doesn't look pretty, and it can make us feel very uncomfortable. But how beautiful to take that look, to see (truth), and to learn. The answer to bad porn is not no porn, but to make better porn!
~ Annie Sprinkle
The world is diverse, and having a professional team that mirrors the world is going to be more helpful for us.
~ Aileen Lee
Afterward their ghosts played, yet both of them hoped from their souls never to meet. Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind? She will have no other adventure like Amory, and if she reads this she will say: And Amory will have no other adventure like me.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Unknowingly she saw her own tragedies mirrored in his face.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Look at me...and tell me what you see.' Norma put her pencil down and studied him. 'You look just like you always did, Macky, only older.' 'How much older?' 'You look... oh, I don't know, Macky, you look the same to me as you always did. I don't know what you look like. Go look for yourself in the mirror.' 'I want an objective view. I see myself every day.' 'Well, I see you every day too. How am I supposed to know what you look like?
~ Fannie Flagg
Come you lost Atoms to your Centre draw, And be the Eternal Mirror that you saw
~ Farid ud-Din Attar
Leave in a complex state of slumber Your consciousness of science. Look At your white face in the wine's red mirror And then drink the mirror ...and your consciousness
~ Fernando Pessoa