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Quotes About Mirror

Behind him there's still the mirror…a bit of infinity, which in its disinterest still holds their reflections safely in it.
~ Laura Kasischke
It's impossible to imagine my mother like that. I cannot imagine her softened, thawed, decayed, becoming sweeter as she spoils. I imagine her trapped in a mirror instead. A permanent image of her locked into a rectangle of hard brightness, open-eyed.
~ Laura Kasischke
Este crimen se impone como un espejo, y el monstruo que allí se refleja tiene la cara del país entero.
~ Laura Restrepo
When we face the Abyss, we stare into a mirror. In Shinto temples, there is a mirror. The purpose of this mirror is to remind the Murid of the fact that to see REALITY, it is necessary to see both oneself and the illusory nature of the self.
~ Laurence Galian
Ultimately, the mirror reflects our mortality; when we gaze in the mirror, we gaze at a skeleton.
~ Laurence Galian
The brain is a mirror that reflects the One Mind. The mirror is a sacred object. For verily we are the mirror reflections of The Ancient Holy One. In looking at your mirror reflection you see The Only One.
~ Laurence Galian
Your brain is a mirror that reflects the One Mind. The mirror is a sacred object. For verily we are the mirror reflections of the Ancient Holy One. In looking at your mirror reflection you see The Only One.
~ Laurence Galian
It was nice to see a Human smile. So many things looked like smiles but weren't. Sometimes, to feel genuine kindness, I would stare into a mirror and smile at myself, just to remember what one looked like.
~ Cecil Castellucci
For everyone death has a look. Death will come with your eyes. It will be like terminating a vice, as seen in the mirror a dead face re-emerging, like listening to closed lips. We'll go down the abyss in silence. — Cesar Pavese, from "Death Will Come With Your Eyes," Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi . Translation by Linh Dinh (Einaudi 1966) Originally published 1951.
~ Cesare Pavese
Hey, our hair's the same color," I said, eying us side by side in the mirror. "Sure is, girlfriend." Eric grinned at me.
~ Charlaine Harris
Some people never have reflections unless they stand before a mirror.
~ Author unknown, 1940s
Philip owned a looking-glass, and was therefore accustomed to a very high standard of manly beauty.
~ Grant Allen
El enemigo más difícil de vencer es aquel que miras todos los días frente al espejo." "La venganza es un acto de precisión." "No permitas que la emoción alimente tu venganza. Aguarda, el momento correcto para ejecutarla llegará." "Si tu enemigo es belicoso, pronto topará con el adversario que le dé muerte. Puedes ser tú, puede ser otro.
~ Guillermo Arriaga
If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.
~ Guillermo Cabrera Infante
A human being - what is a human being? Everything and nothing. Through the power of thought it can mirror everything it experiences. Through memory and knowledge it becomes a microcosm, carrying the world within itself. A mirror of things, a mirror of facts. Each human being becomes a little universe within the universe!
~ Guy de Maupassant
He found himself taking note of the trappings of this, the king's most private room. [...] the etched windows over the garden, the gilt-edged mirror on the opposite wall, the intricately woven carpets . . . In a way, Mazur ben Avren thought, all these delicate things were bulwarks, the innermost defenses of civilized man against the rain and dark, and ignorance.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
He can't wear them, Buck Mulligan told his face in the mirror. Etiquette is etiquette. He kills his mother but he can't wear grey trousers.
~ James Joyce
Through the clear mirror of your eyes, Through the soft sigh of kiss to kkiss, Desolate winds assail with cries The shadowy garden where love is.
~ James Joyce
Through the clear mirror of your eyes, Through the soft sigh of kiss to kiss, Desolate winds assail with cries The shadowy garden where love is.
~ James Joyce
Maybe you'll have better luck dealing with the dead than I. They go where they want. They sit on your bed at night and stand behind you in the mirror. Once they locate you, they never rest. And you know what's worse about them?" He smiled at me and didn't reply. "When it's your time, they'll be your escorts, and they won't be delivering you to a very good place. The dead are not given to mercy.
~ James Lee Burke
Please, sit down, Sharon said with another hair toss. I made a mental note to practice doing that in a mirror the next time I saw one. it seemed a useful skill, right up there with roundhouse kicks.
~ James Patterson
Happiness is seeing Bear Bluff in your rearview mirror, but you better look damn quick.
~ James Patterson
We all suffer in our own way; like, life is miserable. And I'm not, 'Oh, I'm a stand-up who's sad,' but the reality is that just about everyone is quietly unhappy. I don't think that pertains to comedians specifically. I think most people look at themselves in the mirror and are not happy with what they see.
~ Nick Kroll
Any form of media is an opportunity to be a mirror and reflection of what we are experiencing more in the details of our life. What makes it fun and unique in a lot of ways is how that journey is changing just by the mere fact of the current time.
~ Mara Brock Akil