CS Lewis Quotes

All human beings pass away. Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose. If love is to be a blessing, not a misery, it must be for the only beloved who will never pass away.

There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.

A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.

Sometimes success needs interruption to regain focus and shake off complacency.

How can you trust a man who can talk for 5 minutes and you cant understand a sentence of it!

No one can teach riding so well as a horse.

What I find most disturbing about Valentine's Day is, look, I get that you have to have a holiday of love, but in the height of flu season, it makes no sense.

There is nothing about an individual as important as his IQ, except possibly his morals.

I don't have any beauty shop memories. I remember the barber shop.

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

Democrats should be focused on which way we can help the most people in this country, and Republicans should be focused on how to do that in the most fiscally responsible manner possible.

As I have always held it a crime to anticipate evils, I will believe it a good comfortable road until I am compelled to believe differently.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.

Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues.

Evil comes from the ABUSE of free will

Democrats are dumb and Republicans are stupid, but the difference between dumb and stupid is dumb isn't funny. Dumb is when you say something and the whole room goes, 'What did he say?'

No man can rule the unruly until he first rules himself.

Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men fit to be masters.

‎You're not the same as you were before," he said. You were much more... muchier... you've lost your muchness.

I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

You Too? I thought I was the only one.

Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.

Forgiving is, first of all, a way of helping yourself to get free of the unfair pain somebody caused you.

The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ.

A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can will solve most of the problems.

You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.

Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.

If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it's not so bad.

Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.

If tomorrow wasn’t promised, what would you give for today?

Races don't fall in love, genders don't fall in love: Individuals fall in love. We all should be free to marry the person that we love.

I never competed against athletes. I competed against perfection.

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.

I think you have to [vote] and the reason you have to go vote is an important one, and that is because the day you vote is the day that you will feel the most ineffectual you will feel all year.

Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.

Get clear on what you want. Then find the people to support you to get it.

Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago.

We have not long to live in any event. Let us spend what is left in seeking the unpeopled world behind the sunrise.

When you see tears in my eyes, you see it's not about the wins or the losses, It's about the opportunity.

Over time as most people fail the survivor's exacting test of trustworthiness, she tends to withdraw from relationships. The isolation of the survivor thus persists even after she is free.

Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.

Collective judgment of new ideas is so often wrong that it is arguable that progress depends on individuals being free to back their own judgment despite collective disapproval.

The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible

There must, whether the gods see it or not, be something great in the mortal soul. For suffering, it seems, is infinite, and our capacity without limit.

We have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.