Simone Weil Quotes About Pain

Quotes about: Pain

• 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

• On reaching a certain degree of pain we lose the world.

  Simone Weil

  Pain, Degrees, World

  Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.22, Routledge

• Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

  Simone Weil

  Pain, Roots, Evil

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.69, Wipf and Stock Publishers

• When we hit a nail with a hammer, the whole of the shock received by the large head of the nail passes into the point without any of it being lost, although it is only a point. If the hammer and the head of the nail were infinitely big it would be just the same. The point of the nail would transmit this infinite shock at the point to which it was applied. Extreme affliction, which means physical pain, distress of soul and social degradation, all at the same time, constitutes the nail. The point is applied at the very center of the soul, whose head is all necessity, spreading throughout space and time.

  Simone Weil

  Pain, Mean, Space

  "Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)".

• When an apprentice gets hurt, or complains of being tired, the workmen and peasants have this fine expression: "It is the trade entering his body." Each time that we have some pain to go through, we can say to ourselves quite truly that it is the universe, the order and beauty of the world, and the obedience of God that are entering our body.

  Simone Weil

  Hurt, Pain, Tired

• There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.

  Simone Weil

  Pain, Lying, Hatred

• We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.

  Simone Weil

  Hurt, Horse, Pain

  Simone Weil (2009). “Formative Writings (Routledge Revivals)”, p.124, Routledge

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