Simone Weil Quotes about Beauty

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There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.

There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.

Simone Weil

Beauty, Heart, Two

The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.

Simone Weil

Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.43, Routledge

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

Simone Weil

Beauty, Equality, Men

Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.53, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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.

Simone Weil

Beauty, Love Is, Sight

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Simone Weil

Beauty, Pretty Girl, Giving

Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.29, Wipf and Stock Publishers

Beauty is a fruit which we look at without trying to seize it.

Simone Weil

Beauty, Trying, Looks

Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.150, Psychology Press

It may be that vice, depravity, and crime are nearly always, or even perhaps always, in their essence, attempts to eat beauty, to eat what we should only look at.

Simone Weil

Beauty, Essence, Vices

Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.61, Routledge