Quotes by Weil, Simone

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which w >>

When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal an >>

In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the s >>

Quotations about Suffering

Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth. >>

If you learn from your suffering, and really come to understand the le >>

You are outside life, you are above life, you have miseries which the >>

The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard.

Weil, Simone