If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.
Simone WeilNothing is worse than extreme affliction which destroys the "I" from the outside, because after that we can no longer destroy it ourselves.
Simone WeilIf it were conceivable that in obeying God one should bring about one's own damnation whilst in disobeying him one could be saved, I should still choose the way of obedience.
Simone Weil