Simone Weil Quotes

If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.

Life on earth is a hand-to-hand mortal combat... between the law of love and the law of hate.

If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.

As peacemakers, we must resist all the powers of war and destruction and proclaim that peace is the divine gift offered to all who affirm life. Resistance means saying 'No' to all the forces of death, wherever they may be.

Try to find the path of least resistance and use it without harming others. Live with integrity and morality, not only with people but with all beings.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.

Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.

I was a witness to lots of death... Saving a human life was something really, really beautiful... no matter who they are. Not only Israeli people owe me their lives. I guarantee many terrorists, many Palestinian leaders, owe me their lives - or in other words, they owe my Lord their lives.

Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other.

I said peace is sometimes narrowly interpreted; it's the absence of conflict between nations or something. But peace is more inherent, more basic to human life, human beings, what we feel about each other, what we feel about life around us and what we see in our future.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

It is not good enough to cry peace, we must act peace, live peace, and live in peace

Forgiveness is an absolute necessity for continued human existence

The great problem of humanity is life and death. Every person dreams of becoming invisible one day.

I'm interested in morality and mortality, and 'Deadpool' kind of has all of these themes.

We all have to die some day. Not very many immortals have shown up in this world.

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.

I don't think we're any more preoccupied by life and death or heaven and hell than anyone else, but it's fun to write about the inevitable - you're alive, and you're going to die.

Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments.

She is Living and I'm Dead, but I'd like to believe we're both human. Call me an idealist.

We're all immortal until we die.

Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting the while to experience the truth of the words you are saying. If every one of you agrees to practice this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise.