2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything. But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one place where her absence comes locally home to me, and it is a place I can't avoid. I mean my own body. It had such a different importance while it was the body of H.'s lover. Now it's like an empty house.

We do not truly see light, we only see slower things lit by it, so that for us light is on the edge-the last thing we know before things become too swift for us.

There is no use saying you chose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up.

The laws of thought are also the laws of things: of things in the remotest space and the remotest time.

See the bear in his own den before you judge of his conditions.

We are all fallen creatures and all very hard to live with.

Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.

[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.

I wish I were younger. What inclines me now to think you may be right in regarding [evolution] as the central and radical lie in the whole web of falsehood that now governs our lives is not so much your arguments against it as the fanatical and twisted attitudes of its defenders.