C.S. Lewis Quotes

No people find each other more absurd than lovers

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.

She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.

The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.

We are what we believe we are!

I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

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.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

Nothing is yet in its true form.

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.

You can make anything by writing.

I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.

Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.

You can make anything out of writing.

What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant.

But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see... I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.

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 be able to feel.

I enjoy writing fiction more than writing anything else. Wouldn't anyone?

Good characters in fiction are the very devil. Not only because most authors have too little material to make them of, but because we as readers have a strong subconscious wish to find them incredible.