Quotes
Quotes - Lewis
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You, too? Thought I was the only one.
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.
Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness. - The Art of Being Ruled.
I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to ruining only their own lives.
If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.
Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it.
People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'.
I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to ruining only their own lives.
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
Moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine.
A little lie is like a little pregnancy it doesn't take long before everyone knows.
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.
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano.
Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You, too? I thought I was the only one.'
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art ... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
I'm still chasing girls. I don't remember what for, but I'm still chasing them.
Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.
The building of a perfect body crowned by a perfect brain, is at once the greatest earthly problem and grandest hope of the race.
The only cure for grief is action.
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
