Simone Weil Quotes

Wood feeds the fire which burns it.

These violent delights have violent ends And in their triump die, like fire and powder Which, as they kiss, consume

Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Fire, as we have learned to our cost, has an insatiable hunger to be fed. It is a nonliving force that can even locomote itself.

Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.

The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle flame to the nuclear blast, it has lit up the human imagination with fear and fascination.

Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

A fire in a forest is alive with terror and power.

You know you can set fire to the capacity to say.

Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.

What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands.

Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry with itself, turns its own executioner, and revenges its misfortunes on its own head.

I've been putting out the fire with gasoline.

Often does hatred hurt itself.

A fire can't burn forever. Eventually, it consumes itself.

Fire is fed by fire. The same small flame destroys Two stalks of wheat at once.

Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room.

Travelling to past lives is like making a hole in the floor and letting the flames of the fire in the apartment below scorch and burn the present

Revenge is the raging fire that consumes the arsonist.

Hate eats the hater the way ogres eat little boys.

Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death.

The danger with hatred is, once you start in on it, you get a hundred times more than you bargained for. Once you start, you can't stop.

She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.

Terrible is the force of the waves of sea, terrible is the rush of the river and the blasts of hot fire, and terrible are a thousand other things; but none is such a terrible evil as woman.