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C. S. Lewis Quotes

Total quotes: 119
“Did you ever know, dear, how much you took away with you when you left?”
— C. S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
Tagged: Abandoned, Love
“My own eyes are not enough for me; I will see through those of others.”
— C. S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism
Tagged: Understand, Curiosity
“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.”
— C. S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life by C. S. Lewis(1966-03-23)
Tagged: Childhood, Memories, Places, Poetic
“Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.”
— C. S. Lewis, A quote by C.S. Lewis
Tagged: Letting Go, Moving On, Moving Forward, Forgetting History
“If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.”
— C. S. Lewis, Shadowlands
Tagged: Love and Pain, Love Conquers All
“You can’t see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears.”
— C. S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
Tagged: Life, emotions
“If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.”
— C. S. Lewis, The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics
Tagged: Dating, Heartbreak, Love
“Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.”
— C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves
Tagged: Happiness
“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
— C. S. Lewis, It's Time: A Family's Journey of Discovering Truth and God's Amazing Grace
Tagged: Past, Positivity, Better Things, Opportunity
“Courage, dear heart.”
— C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Tagged: Encouragement
“You have lived on broken hearts all your life.”
— Caspian, The Chronicles of Narnia Vol III: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Tagged: Loneliness, Brokeness
“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
— C. S. Lewis, On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
Tagged: maturity, Childish, Shame, Openness, Fear, Growing Up
“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
— C. S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy
“You doubt your value. Don’t run from who you are.”
— C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian
Tagged: Doubt, Value, Self-Trust, Appreciation, Self-Acceptance
“One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again.”
— C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe(The Chronicles of Narnia)
Tagged: Fairytales, Imagination
“You can put this another way by saying that while in other sciences the instruments you use are things external to yourself (things like microscopes and telescopes), the instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred—like the Moon seen through a dirty telescope. That is why horrible nations have horrible religions: they have been looking at God through a dirty lens.”
— C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) destines them for eternity.”
— C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”
— C. S. Lewis, 10 C.S. Lewis Quotes With Commentary
Tagged: Best Friends, Friendship, Friends
“‘Try now to answer my third riddle. By what rule to you tell a copy from an original?’”
— C. S. Lewis, The Pilgrim's Regress
“Mr. Sensible learned only catchwords from them. He could talk like Epicurus of spare diet, but he was a glutton. He had from Montaigne the language of friendship, but no friend.”
— C. S. Lewis, The Pilgrim's Regress
“I fancy that most people who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years.”
— C. S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy
“God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.”
— C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
“Savage – There is only one way fit for a man – Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand.”
— C. S. Lewis, The Pilgrim's Regress
“Legal and economic equality are absolutely necessary remedies for the Fall, and protection against cruelty.”
— C. S. Lewis, Equality
“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.”
— C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“The more you obey your conscience, the more your conscience will demand of you.”
— C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself.”
— C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.”
— C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
“'Who are you? Nobody. Who is Porridge? THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSON THERE IS.'”
— C. S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy
“Even atheists rebel and express, like Hardy and Housman, their rage against God although (or because) He does not, on their view, exist...”
— C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
“Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.”
— C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
“The wraith of Sigmund said. “You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.””
— C. S. Lewis, The Pilgrim's Regress
“All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary.”
— C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
Tagged: How Humans Are, pretending, Fake It Until You Make It, Quote of the Moment
“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.”
— C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“He came in sight of a pass guarded by armed men. ‘you cannot pass … Do you not know that all this country belongs to the Spirit of the Age? … Here Enlightenment, take this fugitive to our Master.’”
— C. S. Lewis, The Pilgrim's Regress
“"Milton was right…" The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the words "Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven." There is always something they insist on keeping even at the price of misery…”
— C. S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
“I am sorry that my convictions do not allow me to repeat my friend’s offer, said one of the others. But I have had to abandon the humanitarian and egalitarian fancies. His name was Mr. Neo-Classical.”
— C. S. Lewis, The Pilgrim's Regress
“There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.”
— C. S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
“The Value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.”
— C. S. Lewis, Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
— C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
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