Simone Weil Quotes About Joy

Quotes about: Joy

• Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.

  Simone Weil

  Thank You, Gratitude, Joy

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.63, Psychology Press

• The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running.

  Simone Weil

  Running, Learning, Breathing

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.81, Routledge

• There is no greater joy for me than looking at the sky on a clear night with an attention so concentrated that all my other thoughts disappear; then one can think that the stars enter into one's soul.

  Simone Weil

  Stars, Night, Thinking

• To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

  Simone Weil

  Friendship, Art, Joy

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.43, Wipf and Stock Publishers

• The man who has known pure joy, if only for a moment ... is the only man for whom affliction is something devastating. At the same time he is the only man who has not deserved the punishment. But, after all, for him it is no punishment; it is God holding his hand and pressing rather hard. For, if he remains constant, what he will discover buried deep under the sound of his own lamentations is the pearl of the silence of God.

  Simone Weil

  Men, Hands, Silence

  Simone Weil (1977). “The Simone Weil Reader”

• Joy is being fully aware of reality.

  Simone Weil

  Reality, Joy

• A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

  Simone Weil

  Dream, Real, Joy

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.53, Psychology Press

• The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade.

  Simone Weil

  Running, Real, Teaching

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.34, Routledge

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