best quotations about
Mirror |
and Reflection
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Quotations
Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it. — Bertolt Brecht, 1898-1956, German writer 8 likes | |
For our improvement we need a mirror. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 5 likes | |
Mirrors would do well to reflect a little more before sending back images. — Jean Cocteau, 1889-1963, French artist 5 likes | |
The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 4 likes | |
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799, German author of maxims 3 likes | |
Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors. — Eugene O’Neill, 1888-1953, American playwright, Nobel 1936 2 likes | |
Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror. — Antonio Porchia, 1885-1968, Italian-Argentinian poet 2 likes | |
The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart. — Fernando Pessoa, 1888-1935, Portuguese poet & writer 2 likes | |
Children always want to look behind mirrors. | |
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me. | |
Death is the dark backing that a mirror needs if we are to see anything. — Saul Bellow, 1914-2005, Canadian-American writer, Nobel 1976 | |
The best mirror is an old friend. | |
Surrealism first recognized itself in the black mirror of anarchism. — André Breton, 1896-1966, French writer, founder of Surrealism | |
At times the mirror increases a thing’s value, at times denies it. |
Quotes in Verse
We saw the stranger and the enemy in the mirror. | |
Look more in the mirror for the Other. |
Funny Quotes
You know what keeps me humble? Mirrors! — Phyllis Diller, 1917-2012, American comedian 5 likes |
Ancient Greek
Bronze is the mirror of the form; wine, of the heart. Κάτοπτρον είδους χαλκός εστί, οίνος δε νοός. — Aeschylus, 525-456 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian 8 likes |
Proverbs
Eyes are the mirror of the soul. 3 likes |
Movie Quotes
Magic Mirror on the Wall. Who is the fairest one of all? — from the film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) 5 likes |