Lou Reed Quotes

How can anyone see straight when he does not see himself and the darkness he unconsciously carries with him into all his dealings?

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.

Previously, even in Egypt, men had not learned to see straight. They fumbled in the dark, and didn't quite know where they were, or what they were. Like men in a dark room, they only felt their existence surging in the darkness of other creatures. We, however, have learned to see ourselves for what we are, as the sun sees us. The Kodak bears witness.

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

Sometimes you had to take a look at yourself and then look away.

I tell myself that I know you, and then when I think about it, I realize that I don't.

To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else.

I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.

It is a whole lot easier to see our problems in others than it is to see them in ourselves.

The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

I am really puzzled to understand myself.

The only subject I know anything about is myself and I don't know that too clearly.

An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'

A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life, and the people I love the most in the mirror of the blank screen. In a memoir, feelings are more important than facts, and to write honestly, I have to confront my demons.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through.

In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.

I don't know if I'm very complicated at all. I wish I was. I wish I was one of these deep, intricate people. But I just love having fun really.

It sounds so cheesy, but there's something very powerful about looking in the mirror and asking yourself a question. Because I think it's really hard to lie.

Facts make you face stuff about yourself you'd rather not see.