Simone Weil Quotes

Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.

Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.

Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.

What we perceive things to be when they come out of our mouth is not what the listener perceives it to be. They think it differently. They're not your blood. They're not your mind. You get in an argument.

I don't expect people to get me. That would be quite arrogant. I think there are a lot of people out there in the world that nobody gets.

Read the heart and not the letter for the pen cannot draw near the good intent.

Ser compreendido é prostituir-se.

And the seriousness with which the other party takes my words always raises the doubt whether I have taken them seriously enough myself.

Those who cannot hear an angry shout may strain to hear a whisper.

One of the hardest things in the world is to convey a meaning accurately from one mind to another.

It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.

I must know, he thinks. It must be clear to me. There is a world which is closed to him, a world of shadings, gradations, nuances, and subtleties. He is a genius and yet he is too explicit. June slips between his fingers. You cannot posses without loving.

we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others

Not every man with a heart is understanding, nor every man with an ear a listener, and nor every man with eyes able to see.

All I'm saying is that you should show some respect for what other people see with their eyes and feel with their fingers, even though it be the exact opposite.

We're all born with selfish desires, so we can all relate to those feelings in others. But kindness is something made individually by each person. So it's easy to misunderstand when others are trying to be kind to you.

Those who do not weep, do not see.

If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that is to say like artists, we must see not just their faces but the life behind and within their faces. Here it is love that is the frame we see them in.

Ultimately, my character is defined by the quality of my sensitivity to other people. I exist in equilibrium. I am here to the degree I am there.

I'm very empathetic - that might be one of my superpowers.

I'm not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they're going through. I don't know if that's the healthiest thing, but it's the truth.

I think that I come off as, 'Nothing bothers me, I don't care! I'm funny and sassy.' But I'm deeply sensitive. Not only about myself but to others. Not to pat myself on the back, empathy is a quality I've cultivated over my life. It came naturally to me as a child.

The first word that always came into my head with Henry VI was 'empathy.' He doesn't have a barrier between what other people feel and what he feels.

I think anything can feed you, depending on the way you look at it or listen to it.

You really have to be careful about what you do and think about other people around you, as human beings who feel things, and you have to learn to be empathetic and notice the signs of people who are going through trouble.