“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.”
Art
“Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.”
FaithAll Quotes by C. S. Lewis
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
Motivational“Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.”
Imagination“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
Education“Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.”
Religion“Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.”
War“Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.”
Failure“Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.”
Nature“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.”
Life“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.”
Good“This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.”
Love“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.”
God“There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.”
Marriage“Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.”
Time“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.”
Truth“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”
Future“There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'”
God“Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.”
God“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.”
Birthday“Eros will have naked bodies Friendship naked personalities.”
Friendship