C. S. Lewis Quotes

Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.

Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.

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 another world.

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

Thirty was so strange for me. I’ve really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.

I would prefer to battle the ‘I’m special’ feeling not by the thought, ‘I’m no more special than anyone else,’ by by the feeling, ‘Everyone is as special as me.’

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.

Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

Writing is like a ‘lust,’ or like ‘scratching when you itch.’ Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.

I’m tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.