You could not be born at a better period than the present, when we have lost everything.
Simone WeilAll the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time.
Simone WeilChrist himself came down and took possession of me. . . I had never foreseen the possibility of that, of a real contact, person to person, here below, between a human being and God. . . in this sudden possession of me by Christ, neither my sense nor my imagination had any part: I only felt in the midst of my suffering the presence of a love.
Simone Weil