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Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.

Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.

Simone Weil
Pain, Hands, Suffering

The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.

Simone Weil
Lying, Greatness, Suffering
Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.81, Psychology Press

The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard.

Simone Weil
Moving, Cutting, Suffering
Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.28, Wipf and Stock Publishers

When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions or negligence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him.

Simone Weil
Men, Soul, Suffering
Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.221, Wipf and Stock Publishers

I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.

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Country, Suffering, Humiliation
Simone Weil (1977). “The Simone Weil Reader”

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.

Simone Weil
Imagination, Suffering, Ugly
Simone Weil (1952). “Gravity and Grace”, p.199, U of Nebraska Press

It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.

Simone Weil
Suffering, Chance, Hunger
Simone Weil (2003). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.5, Routledge

One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering.

Simone Weil
Inspirational, Courage, Suffering
Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.19, Routledge

Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering. The suffering should be inflicted with the aim of bringing the soul to recognize freely some day that its infliction was just.

Simone Weil
Punishment, Soul, Suffering
Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.226, Wipf and Stock Publishers

Moreover, nothing is so rare as to see misfortune fairly portrayed; the tendency is either to treat the unfortunate person as though catastrophe were his natural vocation, or to ignore the effects of misfortune on the soul, to assume, that is, that the soul can suffer and remain unmarked by it, can fail, in fact, to be recast in misfortune's image.

Simone Weil
Soul, Suffering, Facts
Simone Weil (2005). “War and the Iliad”, New York Review of Books

Christians ought to suspect that affliction is the very essence of creation. To be a created thing is not necessarily to be afflicted, but it is necessarily to be exposed to affliction. ... Affliction is the surest sign that God wishes to be loved by us; it is the most precious evidence of His tenderness.

Simone Weil
Christian, Essence, Suffering
Simone Weil (1998). “Simone Weil”

Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror.

Simone Weil
Evil, Suffering, Together
Simone Weil (1998). “Simone Weil”

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