14 Quotes by C S Lewis

Іοϋλίανποθω — and before I knew what I desired, the desire itself was gone, the whole glimpse withdrawn, the world commonplace again, or only stirred by a longing for the longing that had just ceased. It had taken only a moment of time; and in a certain sense everything else that had ever happened to me was insignificant in comparison.

Don't you think a dream would feel shy if it were seen walking about in the waking world?

When reading literature, we become a thousand different people and yet remain ourselves.

To me, re-reading my favorite books is like spending time with my best friends.I’d never be satisfied to limit myself to just one experience each with my favorite people.

No time for better words, no time to unsay anything.-Til We Have Faces

Such a man as tourist think simple because he is honest and neighbors think deep for the same reason

And he had been very badly treated by a girl too. He had thought her a really civilised and adult personality, and then she had unexpectedly revealed that she was a mass of bourgeois prejudices and monogamic instincts.

You must therefore conceal from the patient the true end of humility. Let him think of it not as self-forgetfulness but as a certain kind of opinion (namely, a little opinion) of his own talents and character.

I felt sure that [Oyarsa] was what we call "good," but I wasn't sure whether I liked "goodness" so much as I had supposed.