Love is not consolation, it is light.
Interpretation
Love is not merely a comfort; it is an illuminating force in our lives.
In this quote, Simone Weil emphasizes that love transcends simple consolation or temporary relief. Instead, love serves as a guiding light that provides clarity, purpose, and a deeper understanding of ourselves and the world around us, enriching our lives in profound ways.
In practice
During a wedding toast to highlight the importance of love in a couple's life.
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.
The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either
As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.
Evil is license, and that is why it is monotonous: everything has to be drawn from ourselves. One is condemned to false infinity. That is hell itself.
I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.
How many people have been thus led, through lack of self-confidence, to stifle their most justified doubts?
That's how I always want to remember my time with you. Like a pure white light, breathtaking to behold.
How can so much beauty hide such a bruised and steely heart, and why must I love him, why must I lean in my weariness upon his irresistible yet indomitable strength? Is he not the wizend funeral spirit of a dead man in a child's clothes?
Once that living love is destroyed by contraception, abortion follows very easily.
His love for my mother wasn't about looking back and loving something that would never change. It was about loving my mother for everything -- for her brokenness and her fleeing, for her being there right then in that moment before the sun rose and the hospital staff came in. It was about touching that hair with the side of his fingertip, and knowing yet plumbing fearlessly the depths of her ocean eyes.
If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.
Beauty is not beauty without love.
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