Simone Weil Quotes about Compassion

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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.

Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.

Simone Weil

Humility, Compassion, Oneself

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

Simone Weil

Nursing, Compassion, Listening

Simone Weil (1973). “Waiting for God: Translated by Emma Craufurd ; With an Introd. by Leslie A. Fiedler”

Justice consists in seeing that no harm is done to men. Whenever a man cries inwardly: 'Why am I being hurt?' harm is being done to him. He is often mistaken when he tries to define the harm, and why and by whom it is being inflicted on him. But the cry itself is infallible.

Simone Weil

Hurt, Men, Compassion

Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.30, Wipf and Stock Publishers

Compassion directed to oneself is humility.

Simone Weil

Humility, Compassion, Oneself

Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.104, Wipf and Stock Publishers

The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have the capacity do not possess it.

Simone Weil

Sympathy, Thinking, Compassion

Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.36, Routledge