All C.S. Lewis Quotes
- The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction. Examining
- So many things--nay every real thing--is good if only it will be humble and ordinate. Every Real
- There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious. Except
- If there is equality it is in His love, not in us. Equality
- Beauty is not democratic; she reveals herself more to the few than to the many... Beauty
- Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live. Accepted
- Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are… Big
- The true enjoyments must be spontaneous and compulsive and look to no remoter end. Compulsive
- The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost. Good
- We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good. All
- Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible. Been
- The difference [God's] timelessness makes is that this now (which slips away from you even as you say the word now) is for Him infinite. Difference
- Though we cannot experience our life as an endless present, we are eternal in God's eyes; that is, in our deepest reality. Cannot Experience
- Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death. Death
- God has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense. Compliment
- Some people probably think of the Resurrection as a desperate last moment expedient to save the Hero from a situation which had got out of… Control
- Where, except in uncreated light, can the darkness be drowned? Darkness
- The idea which...shuts out the Second Coming from our minds, the idea of the world slowly ripening to perfection, is a myth, not a generalization… Coming
- To play well the scenes in which we are 'on' concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it. Concern
- Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us... Breathed