C. S. Lewis Gone Quotations

Many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and... God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again

You can begin as if nothing had ever gone wrong. White as snow.

The very first tear he made was so deep that I thought it had gone right into my heart.

You have gone into the Temple...and found Him, as always, there.

One flesh. Or if you prefer, one ship. The starboard engine has gone. I, the port engine, must chug along somehow till we make harbour. Or rather, till the journey ends.

Once you were a child. Once you knew what inquiry was for. There was a time when you asked questions because you wanted answers, and were glad when you had found them. Become a child again, even now... You have gone wrong. Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth.

Gone! ...And you and I quite crestfallen.

Gone! And you and I quite crestfallen. It’s always like that, you can’t keep him; it’s not as if he were a tame lion.