Love Quotes Quote by Simone Weil — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.”

“We have to believe in a God who is like the true God in everything except that he does not exist, since we have not reached the point where God exists.”

“At the very best, a mind enclosed in language is in prison. It is limited to the number of relations which words can make simultaneously present to it; and remains in ignorance of thoughts which involve the combination of a greater number. These thoughts are outside language, they are unformulable, although they are perfectly rigorous and clear and although every one of the relations they involve is capable of precise expression in words. So the mind moves in a closed space of partial truth, which may be larger or smaller, without ever being able so much as to glance at what is outside.”

“There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God.”

“Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.”

“We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.”

““People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.”

“If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband’s murder.
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“No matter how much you love someone—the capacity of that love is meaningless if it outweighs your capacity to forgive.”

“Everything that happens to you matters to me.”

“She can be a nightmare, but this still feels better than any dream.”

“One day you will kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence.”