All C.S. Lewis Quotes
- Die before you die, there is no chance after. Chance
- We're free Narnians, Hwin and I, and I suppose, if you're running away to Narnia you want to be one too. In that case Hwin… Any
- I think each village was meant to feel pity for its own sick and poor whom it can help and I doubt if it is… Any
- until the theologians and the ordained clergy begin to communicate with ordinary people in the vernacular, in a way that they can understand, I’m going… Begin
- It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in… Allow
- Further up and further in! Funny
- I write for the unlearned about things in which I am unlearned myself. Funny
- You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest… Adam
- In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself… All
- The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will… Able
- I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once. Book
- Perhaps the experience had been so complete that repetition would be vulgarity - like asking to hear the same symphony twice in a day. Asking
- You don’t think – not possibly – not as a mere hundredth chance – there might be things that are real though we can’t see… Chance
- But now I discovered the wonderful power of wine. I understood why men become drunkards. For the way it worked on me was not at… All
- The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by… All
- And so take away his work, which was his life [. . .] and all his glory and his great deeds? Make a child and… All
- This is our dilemma--either to taste and not to know or to know and not to taste--or, more strictly, to lack one kind of knowledge… Abstraction
- What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it. Draws
- The real moon,if you could reach it and survive it, would in a deep and deadly sense be just like anywhere else...no man would find… Abiding
- This moment contains all moments. All
- Readers are advised to remember the devil is a liar. Advised
- The road to the promised land runs past Sinai. The moral law may exist to be transcended: but there is no transcending it for those… Admitted
- The human spirit will not even begin to try to surrender self-will as long as all seems to be well with it. Now error and… All
- The mold in which a key is made would be a strange thing, if you had never seen a key: and the key itself a… Alone
- My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and… Active