2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

Don't worry. If you really want to, you will Whether you'll like it when you do is another question.

The longer we stay in Hell, the more we become attached to it.

Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the Beloved herself, not the pleasure she can give.

You must ask for God's help. Even when you have done so, it may seem to you for a long time that no help, or less help than you need, is being given. Never mind. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.

God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair?

I have discovered, passionate grief does not link us with the dead but cuts us off from them. This becomes clearer and clearer. It is just at those moments when I feel least sorrow - getting into my morning bath is usually one of them - that H. rushes upon my mind in her full reality, her otherness. Not, as in my worst moments, all foreshortened and patheticized and solemnized by my miseries, but as she is in her own right. This is good and tonic.

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal.

Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State's honey and avoiding the sting?

She did not shut it properly because she knew that it is very silly to shut oneself into a wardrobe, even if it is not a magic one.