Simone Weil Quotes

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness.

There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.

Things that are truly great will be timeless.

For truth there is no deadline.

Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.

Write only of what is important and eternal.

There is nothing more ancient than the truth.

Nothing endures except truth.

The Bible - the wisest document ever known in human existence, which defies the ravages of time and change because it contains the truth that cannot be changed or invalidated.

Nothing lasts but the Church.

You don't really stay attached to things. Life goes on, so you don't really sit around and think about how they are relevant to other people. You hope that whatever you create will be [relevant].

God is unlimited and infinite with respect to time; He is eternal. God is unlimited and unaffected by space; He is present everywhere at the same time.

Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.

Its name-what passes not away.

Speaking about myself, I've been pleasantly surprised that my older plays are still being performed. Most important is that they still have something to say to today's audience, in particular the young people who enjoy my plays. That's the best I could hope for, that the plays aren't single-use products of one era.

Truth is Timeless, and returning to Truth is better than continuing in Falsehood

The brilliant passes, like the dew at morn; The true endures, for ages yet unborn.

Any artist who has that quality of timelessness has that quality because they tell the truth.

They say that art should stand the test of time. Life lasts a limited amount of time. Mountains and trees and earth will outlive human beings, but we don't know if they will be here always. Art does outlast the life span of its maker. Art should communicate to an increasing circle of strangers-people who do not know the artist, but come to know the work, and through the work, come to know something about the humanity of the artist that rings with their own humanity.

Truth breeds power, and truth never perishes.

You have to know the reality and the reality is that we are eternal.

Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun - if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one.