Tomas Transtromer Quotes

I was looking in the mirror the other day and I realized I haven't changed much since I was in my twenties. The only difference is I look a whole lot older now.

I've looked in the mirror every day for 20 years. It's the same face.

Inside, we are ageless and when we talk to ourselves, it’s the same age of the person we were talking to when we were little. It’s the body that is changing around that ageless center.

I remember the day I turned thirty. I was getting out of the shower and I stood in front of the mirror and stared at myself for a long time. I examined every inch of my body and appreciated the fact that I finally looked like a grown woman. I also assumed that this was how I was going to look for the rest of my life. The way I saw it, I was never going to age; I'd just look up one day and be old.

There is a stage you reach, Deagle thinks, a time somewhere in early middle age, when your past ceases to be about yourself. Your connection to your former life is like a dream or delirium, and that person who you once were is merely a fond acquaintance, or a beloved character from a storybook. This is how memory becomes nostalgia. They are two very different things - the same way that a person is different from a photograph of a person.

It is well we cannot see into the future. There are few boys of fourteen who would not feel ashamed of themselves at forty.

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

I felt I grew up when I was about 28. I feel pretty much the same. I get reminded when I look in mirrors that I am not. Hopefully, you keep growing and keep planning things as you go along.

We are the mirror - As well as the face in it.

It is important to remember yourself.

Well, I'm in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

What do I see when I look in the mirror? One handsome man. No, I see the same person I have seen for the last 27 years: the person I believed I could be when I was a child, the person I have inspired and dreamed to be all my life, and that's the person I have seen, from being that big to as big as the roof - the same guy.

I'm reminded of who I am, who I was, and who I'm supposed to be.

The world is a reflection of who we are and if we don't like the reflection, it doesn't really help to break the mirror.

Seems like the only one who doesn't see your beauty is the face in the mirror looking back at you.

When you look in the mirror what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you?

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

We use books like mirrors, gazing into them only to discover ourselves.

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.

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

Did you ever wonder if the person in the picture is the same one you see when you look in the mirror?" - "That's the eternal question, isn't it? Are we born who we are, or do we make ourselves that way?

It's very odd, being older, because in a way it's hard to own the past, even.

You can almost measure where you are in life by the degree to which you have begun looking back rather than ahead.

The mirror is not you. The mirror is you looking at yourself.

Knowing what you admire in others is a wonderful mirror into your deepest, as yet unborn, self.