2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes.

God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.

Dance and game are frivolous, unimportant down here; for "down here" is not their natural place. Here, they are a moment's rest from the life we were placed here to live. But in this world everything is upside down. That which, if it could be prolonged here, would be a truancy, is likest that which in a better country is the End of ends. Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior.

True friends don’t spend time gazing into each other’s eyes. They may show great tenderness towards each other but they face in the same direction - toward common projects, goals - above all, towards a common Lord.

Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.

We come to Scripture not to learn a subject but to steep ourselves in a person.

Will the others see you too?" asked Lucy. "Certainly not at first," said Aslan. "Later on, it depends." "But they won’t believe me!" said Lucy. "It doesn’t matter.

For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands.