Jean Cocteau Quotes

Before you ask more questions, think about whether you really want to know the answers.

Mirrors would do well to reflect a little more before sending back images.

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

Nobody ever warned me about mirrors, so for many years I was fond of them, and believed them to be trustworthy. . .

The past reflects eternally between two mirrors - the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say.

I think you need to have the guts to not use comedy. Often, the people that work in comedy use a joke to avoid contemplation.

The poem is itself a mirror.

I think it's always important to reflect anyway, no matter what age you're approaching or what milestone is in front of you. Reflection should be almost a daily thing if possible.

You'll consider what you did wrong & bookend your reflections with hunger - no supper, no breakfast.

Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.

Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.

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

You need to take a long, hard look in the mirror and not come away thinking, "Hey, there's something wrong with this mirror."

We are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them.

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

First Sight means you can see what really is there, and Second Thoughts mean thinking about what you are thinking. And in Tiffany's case, there were sometimes Third Thoughts and Fourth Thoughts although these...sometimes led her to walk into doors.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use.

They only babble who practise not reflection.

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

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'

I try not to be overly analytical.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

For me, writing is a way of thinking. I write in a journal a lot. I'm a very impatient person, so writing and meditation allow me to slow down and watch my mind; they are containers that keep me in place, hold me still.

Reflection is not something you have a lot of time for.