2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different...

Safety and happiness can only come from individuals, classes, and nations being honest and fair and kind to each other.

We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century [...] lies where we have never suspected it [...] The only palliative is [...] by reading old books. [...] the books of the future would be just as good [...], but unfortunately we cannot get at them.

Thirst was made for water. Inquiry for truth.

In those days Mr. Sherlock Holmes was still living in Baker Street and the Bastables were looking for treasure in the Lewisham Road.

Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.

Every day in a life fills the whole life with expectations and memory.

The Christian and the Materialist hold different beliefs about the universe. They can't both be right. The one who is wrong will act in a way which simply doesn't fit the real universe. Consequently, with the best will in the world, he will be helping his fellow creatures to their destruction.

They were pretty tired by now of course; but not what I’d call bitterly tired – only slow and feeling very dreamy and tired as one does when one is coming to the end of a long day in the open.