Top 77 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.

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

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

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

We are what we believe we are.

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

Anthropomorphic animals, when taken out of narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoonery or nightmare.

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.