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

- Simone Weil

The need of truth is more sacred than any other need.

- Simone Weil

If someone does me injury I must desire that this injury shall not degrade me. I must desire this out of love for him who inflicts it, in order that …

- Simone Weil

Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.

- Simone Weil

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

- Simone Weil

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

- Simone Weil

Just as the power of the sun is the only force in the natural universe that causes a plant to grow against gravity, so the grace of God is the only f…

- Simone Weil

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

- Simone Weil

Whenever one tries to suppress doubt , there is tyranny .

- Simone Weil