“The question of immortality came before him. He was not in the least interested.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“What lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“There are, aren't there, only three things that we can do about death: to desire it, to fear it, or to ignore… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Nothing, not even the best and noblest, can go on as it is. Nothing, not even what is lowest and most bestial,… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“When Adam ate the irrevocable apple, Thou Saw'st beyond death the resurrection of the dead” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“When Aslan Bears his teeth winter meets its death. When he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Death is a safety-device because, once Man has fallen, natural immortality would be the one utterly hopeless destiny for him.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“You can never be really sure of how much you believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Let the thrill go—let it die away—go on through that period of death into the quieter interest and happiness that follow—and you… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Here the whole world (stars, water, air, And field, and forest, as they were Reflected in a single mind) Like cast off… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Whatever their bodies do affects their souls. It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favourite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end: submit… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Once very near the end I said, 'If you can -- if it is allowed -- come to me when I too… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The weakest of my people does not fear death. It is the Bent One, the lord of your world, who wastes your… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Remember, this repentance, this willing submission to humiliation and a kind of death, is not something God demands of you before He… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Can you not see death as the friend and deliverer? It means stripping off that body which is tormenting you. What are… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“In words which can still bring tears to the eyes, St. Augustine describes the desolation into which the death of his friend… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Then Caspian caught up a battle-axe and rushed upon the Lord Drinian to kill him, and Drinian stood still as a stock… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“And grief still feels like fear. Perhaps, more strictly, like suspense. Or like waiting; just hanging about waiting for something to happen.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“A live body is not one that never gets hurt, but one that can to some extent repair itself. In the same… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If a mother is mourning not for what she has lost but for what her dead child has lost, it is a… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The imperfect, yet very venerable, goodness of Socrates led to the easy death of the hemlock, and the perfect goodness of Christ… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“It is simply no good trying to keep any thrill: that is the very worst thing you can do. Let the thrill… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“We believe that the death of Christ is just that point in history at which something absolutely unimaginable from outside shows through… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Your real, new self (which is Christ's and also yours, and yours just because it is His) will not come as long… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“But supposing God became a man - suppose our human nature which can suffer and die was amalgamated with God's nature in… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“When I heard the language of men uttered by my mare," continued Aravis, "I said to myself, the fear of death has… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Then I fell at his feet and thought, Surely this is the hour of death, for the Lion (who is worthy of… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Son,'he said,' ye cannot in your present state understand eternity...That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal suffering, "No future… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“But there must be a real giving up of the self. You must throw it away "blindly" so to speak. Christ will… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“He is not a tame lion," said Tirian. "How should we know what he would do? We, who are murderers. Jewel, I… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Repentance means unlearning all the self-conceit and self-will that we have been training ourselves into... It means killing part of yourself, undergoing… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“It was likely, then that this—-this stumbling walk on a wet night across a ploughed field-—meant death. Death—-the thing one had always… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“A simpler form of the same objection consists in saying that death ought not to be final, that there ought to be… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“How wicked it would be, if we could, to call the dead back! She said not to me but to the chaplain,… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Aslan didn't tell Pole what would happen. He only told her what to do. That fellow will be the death of us… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Do you think I care if Aslan dooms me to death?” said the King. “That would be nothing, nothing at all. Would… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Yet I have often noticed since how much less stir nearly everyone's death makes than you might expect. Men better loved and… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“At the moment, then, of Man’s victory over Nature, we find the whole human race subjected to some individual men, and those individuals subjected… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
“Isn’t it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other?” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
“All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world: but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the Real World.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
“the greatest service we can do to education today is to teach fewer subjects. No one has time to do more than a very… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
“If the Divine call does not make us better, it will make us very much worse. Of all bad men religious bad men are… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
“The husband is the head of the wife just in so far as he is to her what Christ is to the Church -… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
“We use a most unfortunate idiom when we say, of a lustful man prowling the streets, that he "wants a woman". Strictly speaking, a… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
“Después de cada fracaso, pedid perdón, levantaos del suelo y volved a intentarlo. Muy a menudo, lo que Dios nos otorga primero no es… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
“Then two wonders happened at the same moment. One was that the voice was suddenly joined by other voices; more voices than you could… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
“Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
“Laugh and fear not, creatures. Now that you are no longer dumb and witless, you need not always be grave. For jokes as well… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
“When two humans have lived together for many years it usually happens that each has tones of voice and expressions of face which are… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
“He sees as well as you do that courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
“If you do not take the distinction between good and bad very seriously, then it is easy to say that anything you find in… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
“Now the whole offer which Christianity makes is this: that we can, if we let God have His way, come to share in the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
