Grief Quotes by C.S. Lewis

17 Grief quotes by C.S. Lewis

Lewis approaches grief with a calm, philosophical steadiness. His blend of Christian insight and logical reasoning provides a reassuring framework for navigating pain.

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“I shrank from the faces and forms by which I was surrounded. They were all fixed faces, full not of possibilities but…

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“I sat with my anger long enough until she told me her real name was grief.”

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“Of course the cat will growl and spit at the operator and bite him if she can. But the real question is…

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

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“Is it rational to believe in a bad God? Anyway, in a God so bad as all that? The Cosmic Sadist, the…

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“Once very near the end I said, 'If you can -- if it is allowed -- come to me when I too…

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“And no one ever told me about the laziness of grief. Except at my job--where the machine seems to run on much…

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“On the rebound one passes into tears and pathos. Maudlin tears. I almost prefer the moments of agony. These are at least…

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“Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it. Praise in due order; of Him as…

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“I once read the sentence 'I lay awake all night with a toothache, thinking about the toothache an about lying awake.' That's…

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“And grief still feels like fear. Perhaps, more strictly, like suspense. Or like waiting; just hanging about waiting for something to happen.…

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“But those two circles, above all the point at which they touched, are the very thing I am mourning for, homesick for,…

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“Up till then he had been looking at the Lion's great front feet and the huge claws on them; now, in his…

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“Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll…

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“Getting over it so soon? But the words are ambiguous. To say the patient is getting over it after an operation for…

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“It was too perfect to last,' so I am tempted to say of our marriage. But it can be meant in two…

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“If a mother is mourning not for what she has lost but for what her dead child has lost, it is a…

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“Laugh and fear not, creatures. Now that you are no longer dumb and witless, you need not always be grave. For jokes as well…

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“When two humans have lived together for many years it usually happens that each has tones of voice and expressions of face which are…

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“He sees as well as you do that courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the…

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