Quotes By Author: Simone Weil

“Monotony is the most beautiful or the most atrocious thing. The most beautiful if it is a reflection of eternity–the most atrocious if it is the sign of an unvarying perpetuity. It is time surpassed or time sterilized.”

“It is good to reflect about whatever forces us to come out of ourselves. I have difficulty in imagining how it can be that you really have some friendship for me; but as you apparently have, it may be for this purpose.”

“Among human beings, only the existence of those we love is fully recognized. Belief in the existence of other human beings as such is love.”

“When I think of the Crucifixion, I commit the sin of envy.”

“Belief in immortality is harmful because it is not in our power to conceive of the soul as really incorporeal. So this belief is in fact a belief in the prolongation of life, and it robs death of its purpose.”

“He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.”

“Perfect joy excludes even the very feeling of joy, for in the soul filled by the object no corner is left for saying ‘I’. We cannot imagine such joys when they are absent, thus the incentive for seeking them is lacking.”

“Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.”