2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

What flows into you from myth is not truth but reality (truth is always about something, but reality is that about which truth is), and therefore, every myth becomes the father of innumerable truths on the abstract level.

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of curse it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.

If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?

Gone! ...And you and I quite crestfallen.

We must picture Hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment.

I have seen landscapes . . . which, under a particular light, make me feel that at any moment a giant might raise his head over the next ridge.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.