CS Lewis Quotes

Not being interested in other cultures is the normal state of mankind.

In a matter of weeks, he had learned that without suffering and doubt, there can be no whole human being.

Shafts of delicious sunlight struck down onto the forest floor and overhead you could see a blue sky between the tree tops.

Well, if that’s what you call being at peace, for heaven’s sake just warn me before you go to war, will you?

If you were subjects of Maleldil you would have peace.

And this new air was so delicious, and all his old life seemed so far away, that he forgot for a moment about his bruises and his aching muscles.

... the possibility of pain is inherent in the very existence of a world where souls can meet.

Now he must put into practice all his fine poetic thoughts about romantic love.

Small fruit is better than big words.

Down in Louisiana we call that Boogie Woogie!

Music was a balm for any weary soul. It could either lift a person out of the doldrums or comfort him if there was no other solace to be had.

They were making a riotous noise, but it was much more like music - rather advanced music which you don't quite take in at the first hearing - than birds' songs ever are in our world.

What are the odds that people will make smart decisions about money if they don’t need to make smart decisions—if they can get rich making dumb decisions?

I did wonder if there really was such a person as Aslan: but then sometimes I wondered if there were really people like you. Yet there you are.

The home is the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose, and that is to support the ultimate career.

I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids.

I don’t want to save the world, I just want to inspire it.

Life is easy if you let it and hard if you make it.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.

Damsel, " said the Prince, bowing to her. "You are of a high courage, and therefore, I doubt not, you come of a noble blood in your own world.

Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition.

Life can be compared to fishing, you can get anything you want, as long as you use the right bait.

The triple of Jeremy Brown's imagination, in reality, is a home run.

Keep your Eyes on All that's Good and Beautiful and Possible in the World. Because "The Stories We Tell Create the People We Become.

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

You know you're in love when you open your heart knowing there’s a chance it may be broken but in opening your heart, you experience a love that you never dreamed possible.

The joy came from finding at last what hatred was made for.

I believe it all. If I seem not to, it is only that my joy is too great to let my belief settle itself.

She did not find these riches (of fulfillment). They were a gift from God.

Writing is Amazing!When I write I am empowered by my thoughts, entertained by my imagination, and enlightened by my wisdom.

I have caressed a small child’s hair, and in doing so, know there is a God.

For the entrance is low: we must stoop till we are no taller than children to get in.

I have never thought that the man of Stratford-on-Avon wrote the plays of Shakespeare.

I came trusting them. They beat me with rods of dullness. They don't know, they don't understand how agonizing their complacent dullness is. Like ants and August sun on a wound." - Carol Kennicott

I enjoy writing fiction more than writing anything else. Wouldn't anyone?

The fact that none of these civic worriers had ever heard of such a case was unimportant, because they all had heard of somebody who had heard of it!

Oh, quit it! You're the possessor of a beautiful wife, a beautiful gas-stove, and you were going to forget all this race-hysteria.

Guilt, did I say? In what consists ours, unless in the opinion of an ill-judging world?

The study of psychological trauma has repeatedly led into realms of the unthinkable and foundered on fundamental questions of belief.

Control Master Theory proposes that most psychological problems are the result of our altruistic impulses run amok.

We must accept the fact that we have distorted and constricted our lives as adults in accordance with our unconscious beliefs.

Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions. It is time to acknowledge this, perhaps even to learn to do it better.

Though under earth, and throneless now I beYet while I lived all earth was under me.

Relationships have their ups and downs, however if the downs outweigh the ups, then its probably time to hit the door

The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours

The spirit of an artist's gifts can wake our own.

You are never too old to set a new goal or to dream a new dream.

Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future.

Having been shown the possibility that God exists, the atheist haschosen not to accept it. They have no proof or even evidence oftheir belief, but will stick by it. This takes blind faith.