Mirrors Quotes - Page 39

• A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.

  Simone Weil

  Beautiful, Believe, Ugly

  Simone Weil (1973). “Waiting for God”

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• I believe in low lights and trick mirrors.

  Andy Warhol

  Believe, Light, Lows

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Art, Book, Reading

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.457, Penguin

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• If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Positive, Health

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.127, Shambhala Publications

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• Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.' To live alone?' To live. With what you are.

  John Fowles

  Suffering, Greece

  John Fowles (1965). “The Magus”

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• Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.

  Colin Powell

  Perspective, Car, Focus

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• We discover that we do not know our role; we look for a mirror; we want to remove our make-up and take off what is false and real. But somewhere a piece of disguise that we forgot still sticks to us. A trace of exaggeration remains in our eyebrows; we do not notice that the corners of our mouth are bent. And so we walk around, a mockery and a mere half: neither having achieved being nor actors.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Real, Eyebrows, Roles

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• I ask myself how I could give in to this perpetual vertigo that I in fact provoked and feared. I floated among erratic clouds and talked to myself in front of the mirror in the vain hope of confirming who I was. My delirium was so great that during a student demonstration complete with rocks and bottles, I had to make an enormous effort not to lead it as I held up a sign that would sanctify my truth: I am mad with love.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Clouds, Rocks, Giving

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• The society to which we belong seems to be dying or is already dead. I don't mean to sound dramatic, but clearly the dark side is rising. Things could not have been more odd and frightening in the Middle Ages. But the tradition of artists will continue no matter what form the society takes. And this is another reason to write: people need us, to mirror for them and for each other without distortion-not to look around and say, 'Look at yourselves, you idiots!,' but to say, 'This is who we are.

  Anne Lamott

  Mean, Writing, Dark

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.234, Anchor

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• Love, they say, enslaves and passion is a demon and many have been lost for love. I know this is true, but I know too that without love we grope the tunnels of our lives and never see the sun. When I fell in love it was as though I looked into a mirror for the first time and saw myself. I lifted my hand in bewilderment and felt my cheeks, my neck. This was me. And when I had looked at myself and grown accustomed to who I was, I was not afraid to hate parts of me because I wanted to be worthy of the mirror bearer.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Life, Hate, Passion

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• It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Beauty, Wall, Gun

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.16, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Love After Love all your life, whom you have ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.

  Derek Walcott

  Heart, Letters, Ignored

  Derek Walcott (2014). “The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013”, p.227, Macmillan

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• What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Nature, Reflection

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• Catching sight of himself in the long mirrors that ran along the walls, he stiffened in shock...His eyes were surrounded by black shadows, his shirt smeared with dried blood and filthy mud... "Admiring yourself?" The Inquisitor's voice cut through his reverie. "You won't look so pretty when the Clave gets through with you." "You do seem obsessed with my look...Could it be that you're attracted to me?" "Don't be revolting...You could be my son.

  Cassandra Clare

  Wall, Eye, Son

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• If I looked in the mirror someday and saw no dark circles under my eyes, I would probably look better. I just wouldn't look like me.

  Sarah Vowell

  Eye, Dark, Circles

  Sarah Vowell (2013). “Take the Cannoli: Stories From the New World”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• Ever see a hot shot hit, kid? I saw the Gimp catch one in Philly. We rigged his room with a one-way whorehouse mirror and charged a sawski to watch it. He never got the needle out of his arm. They don't if the shot is right. That's the way they find them, dropper full of clotted blood hanging out of a blue arm. The look in his eyes when it hit --- Kid, it was tasty.

  William S. Burroughs

  Kids, Eye, Blue

  William S. Burroughs (1984). “Naked lunch”, Grove Pr

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• Never fire a laser at a mirror.

  Larry Niven

  Fire, Lasers

  Larry Niven (1984). “Niven's Laws”, Owlswick Press

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• All assassins had a full-length mirror in their rooms, because it would be a terrible insult to anyone to kill them when you were badly dressed.

  Terry Pratchett

  Pyramids, Insulting, Would Be

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Pyramids: A Novel of Discworld”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• So he lent her books. After all, one of life's best pleasures is reading a book of perfect beauty; more pleasurable still is rereading that book; most pleasurable of all is lending it to the person one loves: Now she is reading or has just read the scene with the mirrors; she who is so lovely is drinking in that loveliness I've drunk.

  William T. Vollmann

  Drinking, Book, Reading

  William T Vollmann (2005). “Europe Central”, p.510, Penguin

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• Live to discover, as long as discovery leads to a love that comes from the Creator... writing was the mirror to life.

  Ted Dekker

  Writing, Discovery, Long

  Ted Dekker (2010). “Dekker 4-in-1 Bundle: Black, Showdown, Heaven's Wager & Kiss”, p.311, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• But deep down she said to herself, Franz maybe strong, but his strength is directed outward; when it comes to the people he lives with, the people he's loves, he's weak. Franz's weakness is called goodness. Franz would never give Sabina orders. He would never command her, as Tomas had, to lay the mirror on the floor and walk back and forth on it naked. Not that he lacks sensuality; he simply lacks the strength to give orders. There are things that can be accomplished only by violence. Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

  Milan Kundera

  Strong, Love Is, Order

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• You know, then that the public Somebody you are when you 'have a name' is a fiction created with mirrors and that the only somebody worth being is the solitary and unseen you that existed from your first breath

  Tennessee Williams

  Names, Unseen, Fiction

  Tennessee Williams (1990). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams”, p.140, New Directions Publishing

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• Mirrors should reflect before sending an image.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Should

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• I pushed my ragged mouth against the mirror. A thousand crushed bleeding lips pushed back at me.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Mouths, Bleeding, Lips

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• She is a woman of honour and smartness whose wild leaves out luck, always taking risks, and there is something in her brow now, that only she can recognize in a mirror. Ideal and idealistic in that shiny dark hair! People fall in love with her. She is a woman I don’t know well enough to hold in my wing, if writers have wings, to harbour for the rest of my life.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Falling In Love, Dark, Wings

  FaceBook post by Michael Ondaatje from Mar 08, 2015

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