Mirror Metaphor Quotes

Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.

Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.

Nothing I do is didactic. I just want to hold up a mirror and say, 'This is who we are.'

Like a mirror, God appears to be more and more a reflection of whoever it is that happens to be talking about God at the moment.

While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

I'm just a journalist. I shine a mirror to the culture. I give the cop-out answer.

Adam & Eve. The serpent cracked the mirror in a thousand pieces, & the apple was his rock.

The best change you can make is to hold up a mirror so that people can look into it and change themselves. That's the only way a person can be changed." By looking into yourself," Zia said. "Even if you have to look into a mirror that's outside yourself to do it." "And you know," Maida added. "That mirror can be a story you hear, or just someone else's eyes. Anything that reflects back so you can see yourself in it.

You can't fool the mirror-what you see is what you are.

Whoever wants the "I" to yield up its mysterious and tremendous secret must stop it from looking perpetually in the mirror, must stop the little ego's fascination with its own image.

Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.

Other people are like a mirror which reflects back on us the kind of image we cast.

Again I see you, But me I don't see!, The magical mirror in which I saw myself has been broken, And only a piece of me I see in each fatal fragment - Only a piece of you and me!

The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it.

All writers write about themselves, just as the old storytellers chose to tell stories that spoke to and about themselves. They call it the world, but it is themselves they portray. The world of which they write is like a mirror that reflects the inside of their hearts, often more truly than they know.

I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you.

If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one's life, without seeing oneself in the "mirror" of literature?

When I can't see myself in the mirror, I can't even feel myself, and I begin to wonder if I exist at all.

There is no nobler chore in the craft of writing than holding up the mirror of reality and turning it slightly, so we have a new and different perception of the commonplace, the everyday, the 'normal,' the obvious. People are reflected in the glass. The fantasy situation into which you thrust them is the mirror itself. And what we are shown should illuminate and alter our perception of the world around us. Failing that, you have failed totally.

I look in the mirror. There's me. What's in the mirror is not real. So am I unreal?

Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.

The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everybody who looks at it sees something different.