Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about
originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth
(without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine
times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
~C. S. Lewis
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my
God do you learn.
~C. S. Lewis
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if
you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap
and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
~C. S. Lewis
It is hard to have patience with people who say "There
is no death" or "Death doesn't matter." There is death. And
whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are
irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.
~C. S. Lewis
It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see
one.
~C. S. Lewis
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good
of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under
robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's
cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but
those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do
so with the approval of their own conscience.
~C. S. Lewis
The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you
really are is that you very often succeed.
~C. S. Lewis
There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say
to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, in the end, 'Thy will
be done.'
~C. S. Lewis
“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this
world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for
another world.”
― C.S. Lewis
“A children's story
that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the
slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis
“You are never too
old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
― C.S. Lewis
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It
has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to
survival.
~C. S. Lewis
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself,
because it is not there. There is no such thing.
~C. S. Lewis
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave
with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
~C. S. Lewis
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged
old age is replete.
~C. S. Lewis
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As
spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
~C. S. Lewis
Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for
lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.
~C. S. Lewis, 'The Pilgrim's Regress'
Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet
has to say, and as a thing which he makes.
~C. S. Lewis, A preface to "Paradise Lost"
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid
and durable happiness there is in our lives.
~C. S. Lewis,(brainyquote.com)
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