Sara Shepard Quotes

Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.

They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?

I've a full-length triple-panel mirror in which I can see every possible angle, and I spend quite a lot of time in front of it.

Throughout our lives, we see in the mirror the same innocent trusting face we have seen there since childhood.

You have to have a full-length mirror in your house so you can see what is missing and what you have to add to your look.

I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection.

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

As a young woman, my own experience of looking at myself in the mirror is something that's plagued me in lots of ways.

I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of my image.

I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.

I usually only draw myself in down periods... I suppose that's why I often draw myself looking grim. I just think, 'Let's have a look in the mirror.' When you are alone and you look in a mirror you never put on a pleasing smile. Well, you don't, do you?

You know what keeps me humble? Mirrors!

It is 11 years since I have seen my figure in a glass [mirror]. The last reflection I saw there was so disagreeable I resolved to spare myself such mortification in the future.

One of the greatest things my therapist said to me ... and it really blew my mind in the greatest way, he just said, "Look in the mirror less."

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.

I like what I see when I'm looking at me when I'm walking past the mirror.

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.

Mirrors are there when we are and yet they never give anything back to us but our own image. Never, never shall we know what they are when they are alone or what is behind them.

One day when I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.

The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.

I've brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me.

Shine out fair sun, till I have bought a glass, That I may see my shadow as I pass.

I brought a mirror to Lovers' Lane. I told everybody I'm Narcissus.