Simone Weil Quotes

Even the righteous man is just a sinner living in between sins.

There is a spiritual side to me that goes real deep, but I confess right up front that I'm the biggest sinner of them all.

It's a very, very fascinating story for me, cause it's about a man who's been doing bad; bad things. And he's a father of four children in parochial school, he's a lieutenant of detectives, but he's in conflict with himself and with trying to do what's right.

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

I asked God if it was a sin and He didn't say anything.

Sometimes, I feel like I'm lost. But I've always said that I believe in God.

I was about to be a preacher, but I was a sinner.

Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.

I've always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. ... Or it may be a private bargain between me and God, that if I give up this one thing I want so much, however bad I am, He won't quite despair of me in the end.

Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it.

He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked companion was that Cowardice which invariably drew him back, with her tremulous gripe, just when the other impulse had hurried him to the verge of a disclosure.

Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.

If God was dead, how could I feel this bad?

When I run over the frightful catalogue of my sins, I cannot believe that I am the same creature whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and transcendent visions of the beauty and the majesty of goodness. But it is even so; the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil.

In trying to avoid one sin I've committed another.

Perhaps despair is the only human sin.

If certain women walk straight into adultery, there are many others who cling to numerous hopes, and commit sin only after wandering through a maze of sorrows.

I am sometimes almost terrified at the scope of the demands made upon me, at the perfection of the self-abandonment required of me; yet outside of such absoluteness can be no salvation.

I had a little sorrow, Born of a little sin.

Temptation can be tormenting, but remember: The torment of temptation to sin is nothing to compare with the torment of the consequences of sin. Remorse and regret cannot compensate for sin....though sins can be forgiven immediately - the consequences can last a lifetime

I was a sinner. I knew that without a doubt. But I was not alone. And the night was the accomplice of us all.

I do not understand how a man can be a true believer, in whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow and trouble.

I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the temptation and the fear of that sin.

All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.

Sin is the Monster we love to deny. It is crouching at the door and it wants you, but you must overcome it.