Quotes by C. S. Lewis

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

"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."

"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."

"Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success."

"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."

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

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

"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.'"

"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."

"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."

"Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning."

"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."

"Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither."

"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become."

"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts."

"Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours."

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

"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it."