Simone Weil Quotes

opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through .

Anything that immobilizes you, gets in your way, or keeps you from your goals is all yours. You can throw it away anytime you choose.

You were her way here, and it's a dangerous thing to be a door.

I have a thing for doors. I always think of them as a threshold to something new.

Every wall is a door.

There's the know. And there's the unknown. And what separates the two is the door, and that's what i wanta be. Ahh wanna be th' dooooooooorrr...

I feel I'm moving toward as well as away from something, and anything is possible.

Straight ahead you can't go very far.

One door closes and another one opens.

Sometimes the things we think are the impediments are actually the path.

To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides.

Anything inside that immobilizes me, gets in my way, keeps me from my goals, is all mine.

For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw.

Each time a door closes, the rest of the world opens up.

If you nail a tool shed closed, how do you put the hammer away?

All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.

Take the adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes! 'Tis but a banging of the door behind you, a blithesome step forward, and you are out of your old life and into the new!

As one door closes, another one shuts.

Nothing in its essence is one way or the other.

Too many locks, not enough keys.

Which path do you intend to take, Nell?' said the Constable, sounding very interested. 'Conformity or rebellion?' Neither one. Both ways are simple-minded - they are only for people who cannot cope with contradiction and ambiguity.

It means we're looking one way, while following another. We're for one side and also the other. We mean what we say, but our intentions are different.

Half of humanity has been accepting the inner world but denying the outer world.

I think the world is always improving and always not improving. I think that both are simultaneously happening all the time. I don't think it's one motion unfortunately - I wish we could say it's better, better, better - but I think it's better, bad, better, bad - you know?

Events need their invitation, dissolutions their start.