Helen Oyeyemi Quotes

Am I a fool? I don't think I'm a fool. But I think I sure was fooled.

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.

Remember it's all just a mirror we made to see ourselves in.

You can't see the world through a mirror.

I've looked in the mirror every day for 20 years. It's the same face.

Many truths which are not believed are called lies,' the Laughing Beast said. 'Mirrors do not themselves lie unless they have been enchanted. Ordinary mirrors merely reflect what is revealed to them. People lie and mirrors reflect people. If your mother feared mirrors in your land, she feared herself.

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.

The poem is itself a mirror.

Little mirrors were attached to the front of their cars, at which they glanced to see where they had been; then they stared ahead again. I had thought that only beetles had this delusion of Progress.

When you look into a mirror it is not yourself you see, but a kind of apish error posed in fearful symmetry kool uoy nehW rorrim a otni ton si ti ˛ees uoy flesruoy dnik a tub rorre hsipa fo lufraef ni desop yrtemmys

Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face – there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being able to see it, and of not being able to stare into his own eyes. Only in the water of rivers and ponds could he look at his face. And the very posture he had to assume was symbolic. He had to bend over, stoop down, to commit the ignominy of beholding himself. The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.

The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .

We do. Or re-create the ones we have, and project. My whole life is projection.

I was naïve when I was young, I was sheltered. I had illusions about who I was going to be, delusions, and a little bit of pretentiousness. And I thought, "I'll write the guy like that. It'll allow me to make fun of everyone else if I make fun of myself."

People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they’re reflecting too ... Reflections of reflections and echoes of echoes. No beginning and no end. No center and no purpose.

The mirror is not you. The mirror is you looking at yourself.

We are the mirror - As well as the face in it.

I turned myself to face me, but I've never caught a glimpse of how the others must see the faker.

As a viewed myself in a fragment of looking-glass..., I was so impressed with a sense of vague awe at my appearance ... that I was seized with a violent tremour.

For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me.

You know more about me than I do about myself, that's probably true.

I love mirrors.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.