“Loneliness is a mirror, and recognizes itself.”

“To recognize you are the source of your own loneliness is not a cure for it. But it is a step toward seeing that it is not inevitable, and that such a choice is not irrevocable.”

“But oh my heart that will not give itself
Break, you bastard, ripped by your loneliness!”

“Elsewhere is a negative mirror. The traveler recognizes the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and will never have.”

“There in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning.”

“Teaching at best beckons us to morality, but it is not in itself efficacious. Teaching is like a mirror. It can show you if your face is dirty, but it the mirror will not wash your face.”

“If we can just be brave enough to be each others mirror, we may finally recognize the face of conscious that we fear.”

“We never escape our past. It is mirrored in our present. It repeats itself in our future.”

“And a soul
if it is to know itself
must look
into its own soul:
the stranger and enemy, we've seen him in the mirror.”

“We say that people and that things are changed;
Alas! it is ourselves that change : the heart
Makes all around the mirror of itself.”