Elie Wiesel Quotes

I can see myself before myself - a being through dark scenery.

As they croak, I see myself in the pistol smoke.

When I woke the next morning in my room at White's Motel, I showered and stood naked in front of the mirror, watching myself solemnly brush my teeth. I tried to feel something like excitement but came up only with a morose unease. Every now and then I could see myself-truly see myself-and a sentence would come to me, thundering like a god into my head, and as I saw myself then in front of that tarnished mirror what came was 'the woman with the hole in her heart'. That was me.

You look in the mirror, but you don't see what you actually look like.

I don't even recognize myself sometimes.

The wretched reflect either too much or too little.

I was unrecognizable to myself; I saw my reflection in a window; I didn't know my own face.

Gazing into the mirror, I saw myself as I was-a black silhouette in the room, a woman whose darkness had completely leaked through.

Who is that girl I see, staring straight back at me? When will my reflection show who I am inside?

No matter where you go, you always see yourself in the rearview mirror.

I turned myself to face me, but I've never caught a glimpse of how the others must see the faker.

As a viewed myself in a fragment of looking-glass..., I was so impressed with a sense of vague awe at my appearance ... that I was seized with a violent tremour.

The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.

I love changing what I look like because I always feel super strange whenever I do watch something that I'm in.

I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror.

As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.

I was never my favourite subject.

It's tough being me.

I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?

I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead - and that one was myself.

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

I took a selfie to prove to myself that I exist!

When you look in the mirror, your 'appearance,' that outer you, is what you see first.

I look at that person and I'm like, That's not Kelli White. That's not who I am, who I started out to be.

In therapy, I see myself in the mirror differently.