Every being cries out silently to be read differently.
~ Simone Weil

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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
~ Simone Weil

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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
~ Simone Weil

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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
~ Simone Weil

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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
~ Simone Weil

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We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
~ Simone Weil

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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
~ Simone Weil

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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
~ Simone Weil

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The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
~ Simone Weil

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