Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired;… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“To love purely is to consent to distance, it is to adore the distance between ourselves and that which we love.” — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“Let us love this distance, which is thoroughly woven with friendship, since those who do not love each other are not separated.” — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Friendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a certain distance, without coming any nearer, the very being… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“But your greatest blessing was of another order. In gaining my friendship through your charity— I have never encountered its equal— you… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“But we can be nearly sure that those whose love for God has caused their pure loves here below to disappear are… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through? — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul by displaying… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
To be innocent is to bear the weight of the entire universe. It is to throw away the counterweight. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love andjustice. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
