2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

Grief is great. Only you and I in this land know that yet. Let us be good to one another.

No se puede alcanzar la suprema sabiduria sin sacrificios.

Narnia, Narnia, Narnia, despierta. Ama. Piensa. Habla. Sed arboles que caminan. Sed bestias que hablan. Sed aguas divinas.

That one small noise brought back the old days to the children’s minds more than anything that had happened yet. All the battles and hunts and feasts came rushing into their heads together.

Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all of those things-trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan himself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones... That's why I'm going to stand by the play world. I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live like a Narnian even if there isn't any Narnia.--Puddleglum, The Silver Chair, C. S. Lewis

Lacht und fürchtet euch nicht, ihr Geschöpfe. Jetzt, da ihr nicht mehr stumm und geistlos seid, müsst ihr nicht mehr immer ernst sein. Denn wo Sprache ist, da sind Witze ebenso wie Wahrheit

The invisible people agreed about everything. Indeed most of their remarks were the sort it would not be easy to disagree with: "What I always say is, when a chap's hungry, he likes some victuals," or "Getting dark now; always does at night," or even "Ah, you've come over the water. Powerful wet stuff, ain't it?

We do not want merely to see beauty, though, God knows, even that is bounty enough. We want something else which can hardly be put into words — to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it

It is very dangerous to write about a kind you hate. Hatred obscures all distinctions.