Simone Weil Love Quotations

Love: To feel with one's whole self the existence of another being....

If you say to someone who has ears to hear: "What you are doing to me is not just," you may touch and awaken at its source the spirit of attention and love. But it is not the same with words like, "I have the right..." or "you have no right to..." They evoke a latent war and awaken the spirit of contention.

Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.

Because no other could do it, he himself went to the greatest possible distance, the infinite distance. This infinite distance between God and God, this supreme tearing apart, this incomparable agony, this marvel of love, is the crucifixion. Nothing can be further from God than that which has been made accursed.

Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.

Creation is an act of love and it is perpetual.

The children of God should not have any other country here below but the universe itself, with the totality of all the reasoning creatures it ever has contained, contains, or ever will contain. That is the native city to which we owe our love.

It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

God's love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God's love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?

Beauty captivates the flesh in order to obtain permission to pass right through to the soul. . . . When the feeling for beauty happens to be associated with the sight of some human being, the transference of love is made possible, at any rate in an illusory manner. But it is all the beauty of the world, it is universal beauty, for which we yearn.

Love is not consolation, it is light.

Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication.