“I sat with my anger long enough until she told me her real name was grief.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Grief is great. Only you and I in this land know that yet. Let us be good to one another.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Is it rational to believe in a bad God? Anyway, in a God so bad as all that? The Cosmic Sadist, the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Of course the cat will growl and spit at the operator and bite him if she can. But the real question is… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“And no one ever told me about the laziness of grief. Except at my job--where the machine seems to run on much… — 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
“Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it. Praise in due order; of Him as… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“On the rebound one passes into tears and pathos. Maudlin tears. I almost prefer the moments of agony. These are at least… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“But those two circles, above all the point at which they touched, are the very thing I am mourning for, homesick for,… — 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
“I once read the sentence 'I lay awake all night with a toothache, thinking about the toothache an about lying awake.' That's… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Up till then he had been looking at the Lion's great front feet and the huge claws on them; now, in his… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“It was too perfect to last,' so I am tempted to say of our marriage. But it can be meant in two… — 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
“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
“Getting over it so soon? But the words are ambiguous. To say the patient is getting over it after an operation for… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
