John Updike Quotes

You can't see the world through a mirror.

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

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

For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me.

I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let's face it, we don't often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we.

Spiderlike, I spin mirrors, Loyal to my image.

All mirrors are magical mirrors, and we never see our faces in them.

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

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.

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

By happy chance we saw A twofold image: on a grassy bank A snow-white ram, and in the crystal flood Another and the same!

In photos, I don't know who the real me is - it's all pretend, just pretend. There's not much of myself in my work. If I'm looking in the mirror and I'm working, I'm looking at my make-up and my hair. It's not the same as looking at myself.

Do you ever wake up in the morning, look in the mirror and think, something's not accurate?

Methinks you are my glass, and not my brother: I see by you I am a sweet-faced youth.

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

Many truths which are not believed are called lies,' the Laughing Beast said. 'Mirrors do not themselves lie unless they have been enchanted. Ordinary mirrors merely reflect what is revealed to them. People lie and mirrors reflect people. If your mother feared mirrors in your land, she feared herself.

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.

Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror.

You know when civilization began? With the invention of the mirror.

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

One goes on with the blithe belief that who you really are is transparent to everybody. Then you realise, with some horror, that in fact it's not. So all you can do is keep muddying the waters a bit.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

I realize I'm a mirror.

It's hard to see your own face without a mirror.