2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

Be confident small immortals. You are not the only voice that all things utter, nor is there eternal silence in the places where you cannot come.

Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable.

We long for more and God's promise is that there is more awaiting us. More to delight us than we will ever exhaust.

Oh, I can see it happening, age after age, and growing worse the more you reveal your beauty: the son turning his back on the mother and the bride on her groom, stolen away by this everlasting calling, calling, calling of the gods. Taken where we can't follow. It would be far better for us if you were foul and ravening. We'd rather you drank their blood than stole their hearts. We'd rather they were ours and dead than yours and made immortal.

Continue seeking God with seriousness. Unless He wanted you, you would not be wanting Him.

Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."

The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.

I fancy that most people who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years.

Before we can be cured, we must want to be cured.