| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 63500 |
| QUOTATION: | The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Simone Weil (1909–1943), French philosopher, mystic. repr. In Selected Essays, ed. Richard Rees (1962). “Human Personality,” (written 1943), La Table Ronde (Dec. 1950). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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