Love is not consolation. It is light. Author: Simone Weil Copy Quote More from Simone Weil “We have to believe in a God who is like the true God in everything except that …” “The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes. ” “Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren,…” “All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those…”