C. S. Lewis And Quotations

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible Gods and Goddesses. To remember that the dullest, and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship.

And so for a time it looked as if all the adventures were coming to and end; but that was not to be.

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?

She did not shut it properly because she knew that it is very silly to shut oneself into a wardrobe, even if it is not a magic one.

God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

This must be a simply enormous wardrobe!

He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.

For Narnia and for Aslan!

Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.

Onward and Upward! To Narnia and the North!

All names will soon be restored to their proper owners.

Always winter but never Christmas.

If things are real, they're there all the time.