“People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they’re reflecting too… Reflections of reflections and echoes of echoes. No beginning and no end. No center and no purpose.”

“I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me…”

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature

“To me, fashion is like a mirror… It's a reflection of the times. And if it doesn't reflect the times, it's not fashion. Because people aren't gonna be wearing it.”

Anna Sui (1964) American fashion designer

“The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.”

Thomas Sowell (1930) American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author

“If life is a mixture of drained rivers / which carry to the sea echoes of water, / we are nothing but shadows – / reflected lights of dead bodies without no possible outlet or shore.”

Menotti Lerro (1980) Italian poet

“I'm reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.”

Kobe Bryant (1978–2020) American basketball player

“Don't be like anybody else. Be different. Then you can make a
contribution. Otherwise, you just echo something; you're just a reflection.”

Hugh Nibley (1910–2005) Religious scholar

“Mirrors should reflect before sending an image.”

Jean-Luc Godard (1930) French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic

“Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.”

Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker

“Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.”

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath