D. Simone Quotes

Don't let the worst people you know dictate your behavior.

The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

I love you because you’re the only person I want to make love to without any conditions and—and I love that you need me.

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.

The future is made of the same stuff as the present.

Let women be provided with living strength of their own.

Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.

It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.

The whole evolution of present-day society tends to develop the various forms of bureaucratic oppression and to give them a sort of autonomy in regard to capitalism as such.

Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.

The villagers seldom leave the village; many scientists have limited and poorly cultivated minds apart from their specialty.

The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have the capacity do not possess it.

To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.

Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings are clipped, and it is found deplorable that she cannot fly.

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.

Great minds think alike.

The work of art which I do not make, none other will ever make.

We cannot take a step toward the heavens. God crosses the universe and comes to us.

Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.

As soon as a woman re- fuses to be perfectly happy doing housework eight hours a day, society has a tendency to want to do a lobotomy on her.

In this world we live in a mixture of time and eternity. Hell would be pure time.

Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage. My mother is an Evangelist and I used to play the piano at her revival meetings.

If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion

The essential thing to know about God is that God is Good. All the rest is secondary.

There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul.

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

Given masculine norms, it is clear that women are more likely to be considered crazy - I'm not saying to be crazy.

I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.

Literature is always what the dominant ideology recognizes as literature.

How many people have been thus led, through lack of self-confidence, to stifle their most justified doubts?

Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.

Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.

To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).

Si l'on vit assez longtemps, on voit que toute victoire se change un jour en de faite. If you live long enough, you'll find that every victory turns into a defeat.

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.

I would certainly like to see some young women take up psychoanalysis seriously and reconstruct it from an absolutely new viewpoint.

It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.

My family never told me like you have to be one thing. What do you want to be when you grow up? They think it's the most ridiculous question. You can be many, many things.

To be moral is to discover fundamentally ones own being.

Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.

Our lie is like a cancer that's spread to every single area of our lives.

Some things need to be left unsaid.

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.

I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.

We should do only those righteous actions which we cannot stop ourselves from doing.

Words have to murder reality before they can hold it captive.