C.S. Lewis Quotes

Death opens a door out of a little, dark room (that's all the life we have known before it) into a great, real place where the true sun shines and we shall meet.

Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.

I desired dragons with a profound desire.

I once read the sentence 'I lay awake all night with a toothache, thinking about the toothache an about lying awake.' That's true to life. Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or...

I see people, as they approach me, trying to make up their minds whether they'll 'say something about it' or not. I hate if they do, and if they don't.

If God 'foresaw' our acts, it would be very hard to understand how we could be free not to do them. But suppose god is outside and above the Time-line... You never supposed that your actions at this m...

If ever they remembered their life in this world it was as one remembers a dream.

In a perfect Friendship this Appreciative love is, I think, often so great and so firmly based that each member of the circle feels, in his secret heart, humbled before the rest. Sometimes he wonders...

It is as hard to explain how this sunlit land was different from the old Narnia as it would be to tell you how the fruits of that country taste. Perhaps you will get some idea of it if you think like...

It is easy to acknowledge, but almost impossible to realize for long, that we are mirrors whose brightness, if we are bright, is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us.

Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.

Onward and Upward! To Narnia and the North!

When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.

You can’t go on seeing through things forever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. To see through all things is the same as not to see.

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely

All get what they want; they do not always like it.

All shall be done, but it may be harder than you think.

Aslan said Lucy you're bigger.That is because you are older, little one answered he.Not because you are?I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger.

Don't you mind, said Puddleglum. There are no accidents. Our guide is Aslan; and he was there when the giant king caused the letters to be cut, and he knew already all things that would come of them;...