Just imagine living in a world without mirrors. You'd dream about your face and imagine it as an outer reflection of what is inside you. And then, when you reached forty, someone put a mirror before you for the first time in your life. Imagine your fright! You'd see the face of a stranger. And you'd know quite clearly what you are unable to grasp: your face is not you.

The inventor of the mirror did few of us any favours: we must have been happier before we knew what we looked like.

Even a mirror will not show you yourself, if you do not wish to see.

"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 man created the mirror, he began to lose his soul. He became more concerned with his image than with his self.

Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.

When we look into a mirror we think the image that confronts us is accurate. But move a millimetre and the image changes. We are actually looking at a never-ending range of reflections. But sometimes a writer has to smash the mirror – for it is on the other side of that mirror that the truth stares at us.

No man sees himself in a mirror as he really is, nor any woman.

...But if a mirror ever makes
you sad

you should know
that it does
not know
you.

There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.

And it is very much lamented,...
That you have no such mirrors as will turn
Your hidden worthiness into your eye
That you might see your shadow.

I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me...

Look in the mirror and one thing is sure: what we see is not who we are.

Do not see yourself as a body of clay, see yourself as a mirror reflecting the divine beauty.