Quotes by Simone Weil
“Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.”— Simone Weil
“To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.”— Simone Weil
“Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but it is also their means of communication.”— Simone Weil
“We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.”— Simone Weil
“The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle.”— Simone Weil
“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”— Simone Weil
“A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.”— Simone Weil
“Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening.”— Simone Weil
“The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say to him: 'What are you going through?'”— Simone Weil
“Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached.”— Simone Weil