C.S. Lewis Quotes

I wish I had never been born, she said. What are we born for? For infinite happiness, said the Spirit. You can step out into it at any moment...

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will...

When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.

destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time, which they call the Present. For the Present is the point...

Fun is closely related to Joy -- a sort of emotional froth arising from the play of instinct.

Until the evil man finds evil unmistakably present in his existence, in the form of pain, he is enclosed in illusion.

The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.

You cannot love a fellow creature fully till you love God.

Do not dare not to dare.

Christianity does NOT replace the technical. When he tells you to feed the hungry and doesn't give you lessons in cookery. If you want to learn THAT, you must go to a cook rather than a Christian.

Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say My tooth is ach...

We know nothing of religion here: we only think of Christ.

Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old.

I do not know why there is this difference, but I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless He sees that it is good for him to wait. When you do enter your room, you will find that the long wait ha...

My own plans are made. While I can, I sail east in the Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I paddle east in my coracle. When she sinks, I shall swim east with my four paws. And when I can swim no longer,...

I had rather that the human race, having a certain quality in their lives, should continue for only a few centuries than that, losing freedom, friendship, dignity, and mercy, and learning to be quite...

If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

But, first, remember, remember, remember the signs. Say them to yourself when you wake in the morning and when you lie down at night, and when you wake in the middle of the night. And whatever strange...

Lucy went first, biting her lip and trying not to say all the things she thought of saying to Susan. But she forgot them when she fixed her eyes on Aslan.

No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.