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This World Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- Daughter, I have now lived a hundred and nine winters in this world and have never yet met any such thing as Luck. There is…
- We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility,…
- If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world.
- Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A…
- He came to this world and became a man in order to spread to other men the kind of Life He has - by what…
- If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created…
- Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that cannot…
- In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds. We have joy whenever this world reminds us of the next, and we…
- No, I don’t wish I knew Heaven was like the picture in my Great Divorce, because, if we knew that, we should know it was…
- Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half think it is…
- Dance and game are frivolous, unimportant down here; for "down here" is not their natural place. Here, they are a moment's rest from the life…
- Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
- He thinks great folly, child,' said Aslan. "This world is bursting with life for these few days because the song with which I called it…
- This world is a great sculptor’s shop. We are the statues and there’s a rumor going around the shop that some of us are someday…
- If ever they remembered their life in this world it was as one remembers a dream.
- Enemy-occupied territory---that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and…
- If you do not take the distinction between good and bad very seriously, then it is easy to say that anything you find in this…
- If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them…
- If you think of this world as a place simply intended for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place…
- Even in this world of course it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.
- All their life in this world and all their adventures had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning…
- If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for…
More This World Quotes
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about… — Karen Armstrong
- Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape. — Antonin Artaud
- You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price. — Mary Kay Ash
- I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
- The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling? — Saint Augustine
- This world's a bubble. — Saint Augustine
- Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from… — Teresa of Avila
- I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the… — Teresa of Avila
- Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin. — Lord Acton
- I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have… — Kevin Bacon
- For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. — Roger Bacon