C.S. Lewis

I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that.

The safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.

The creatures that were alternatives to us in something more than manner.

I am not a theologian, not even a professional philosopher. I am a literary man, who from a certain point in his life has found himself extremely interested in theology and philosophy.

When I was a child I was too old for my age and now I am an old man I am too young for my age.

The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'real' life. The truth is, of course, that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

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

I am not a well-read man, but a man who has read a few books well.

The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.

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

We are what we believe we are.

Some people feel that to be a Christian, one must be a gloomy, long-faced, spoil-sport. This is a complete travesty of the truth.

I can imagine a man being so immersed in his own troubles that he does not attend to the sufferings of others, but I cannot imagine a man being so happy that he does not attend to the sufferings of others.

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.

The problem of pain, when it is not a problem of the intellect, is a problem of the will.

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.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal.