Logo
Quote by Simone Weil
Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure. - Simon

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure. – Simone Weil

Other quotes by Simone Weil

A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not do so; and in that case he will have to suffer a lot. He will beat his head against the wall until he faints. He will come to again – Simone Weil

Category:
Enlightenment, The
Author
Simone Weil
Read Quote

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link. – Simone Weil

Category:
communication
Author
Simone Weil
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Purity
category

No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. – James Baldwin

Category:
Purity

Purity of heart is to will one thing. – Soren Kierkegaard

Category:
Purity

To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality. – Guillaume Apollinaire

Category:
Purity

The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin. – Oscar Wilde

Category:
Purity

Random Quotes

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it. – Laurence Sterne

Category:
Life

The place was always cold, and I got the feeling that the fans would have enjoyed baseball more if it had been played with a hockey puck. – Andre Dawson, on Montreal

Category:
Baseball

The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives. – Georges Bataille

Category:
Mental Illness

Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

Category:
Love