It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.


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I got a job as a human rights and refugees officer, working on youth-based projects. But I realized ...
HANNAH SIMONE
It just seemed like an unattainable dream to go down to Los Angeles and to land a professional worki...
HANNAH SIMONE
When you're going through a breakup, you should just let yourself feel everything so you can get...
HANNAH SIMONE
A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pl...
SIMONE WEIL
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to kno...
SIMONE WEIL
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
SIMONE WEIL
Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrs...
SIMONE WEIL
Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And o...
SIMONE WEIL
The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of ind...
SIMONE WEIL
To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.
SIMONE WEIL
Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the se...
SIMONE WEIL
To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing i...
SIMONE WEIL
Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great advers...
SIMONE WEIL
A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its opti...
SIMONE WEIL
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to li...
SIMONE WEIL
Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. ...
SIMONE WEIL
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
SIMONE WEIL
In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below begg...
SIMONE WEIL
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
SIMONE WEIL
In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.
SIMONE WEIL
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people tog...
SIMONE SIGNORET
Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both....
SIMONE WEIL
We can only know one thing about God -- that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an ima...
SIMONE WEIL
In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been a...
SIMONE WEIL
Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train ma...
SIMONE WEIL
Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
SIMONE WEIL
Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
SIMONE WEIL
Look at me, chica." When she does, I repeat, "Eres hermosa."
"What does it mean?"
"You're ...
SIMONE ELKELES
Are you following me?" she asks, but doesn't meet my gaze.
"Yeah," I say.
"Why?"
I gi...
SIMONE ELKELES
We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am sufferi...
SIMONE WEIL
The reason I want you to put a shirt on is, well, because, um..."
"You've never seen a guy wit...
SIMONE ELKELES
Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one but they think each others stink.
SIMONE ELKELES
When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door...
SIMONE WEIL
A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being d...
SIMONE WEIL
As for the spirit of poverty, I do not remember any moment when it was not in me, although only to t...
SIMONE WEIL
But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.
SIMONE ELKELES
I give her the only honest and true answer I have.
"You're where I want to be.
SIMONE ELKELES
dear kiara,
The women in the shop told me that yellow rose represents friendship and red rose ...
SIMONE ELKELES
Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case...
SIMONE WEIL
To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to...
SIMONE WEIL
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
SIMONE WEIL
There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying ...
SIMONE WEIL
Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
SIMONE WEIL
There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the...
SIMONE WEIL
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
SIMONE WEIL
The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their i...
SIMONE WEIL
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
SIMONE SIGNORET
The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
SIMONE WEIL
Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.
SIMONE WEIL
The role of the intelligence --that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is m...
SIMONE WEIL
It would seem that man was born a slave, and that slavery is his natural condition. At the same time...
SIMONE WEIL