C. S. Lewis

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”

““If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is…we were made for another world.””

“Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.”

“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”

“I gave in, and admitted that God was God.”

“Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.”

“Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.”

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”

“Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.”

“Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when we look back everything is different.”

“How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.”

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”

“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”

“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.”

“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”

“A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.”

“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.”

“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.'”

“Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.”

“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.”

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