2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

There might be things more terrible even than losing someone you love by death.

In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him.

A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

The promise, made when I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love.

Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself.

Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.