2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

Death opens a door out of a little, dark room (that's all the life we have known before it) into a great, real place where the true sun shines and we shall meet.

One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness.

Do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune, but all the dead are dead like.

Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading

A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.

At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. We cannot mingle with the splendours we see. But all the leaves of the New Testament are rustling with the rumour that it will not always be so. Some day, God willing, we shall get in.

You are certainly under the guidance of the Holy Ghost or you wouldn't have come where you now are.