2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

We have not long to live in any event. Let us spend what is left in seeking the unpeopled world behind the sunrise.

Have fun, even if it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having.

One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality is like, simply for the sake of knowing. When that desire is completely quenched in anyone, I think he has become something less than human.

100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased.

Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were?

Every poet and musician and artist, but for grace, is drawn away from love of the things he tells to love of the telling...

The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion.

I object to that remark very strongly! - The Magician's Nephew

My own eyes are not enough for me...I will see through the eyes of others. Reality, even seen through the eyes of many is not enough...I will see what others have invented. Even the eyes of all humanity are not enough. I regret that the brutes cannot write books. Very gladly would I learn what face things present to a mouse or a bee. More gladly still would I perceive the olfactory world charged with all the information and emotion it carries for a dog.