Occupation: Novelist Birth: November 29, 1898 Death: November 22, 1963
You can’t go on “seeing through” things forever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. To “see through” all thi….
If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you are an atheist you do have to bel….
Love, having become a god, becomes a demon..
I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy..
We're free Narnians, Hwin and I, and I suppose, if you're running away to Narnia you want to be one too. In that case Hwin isn't your horse any longe….
All get what they want; they do not always like it..
Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience..
Growing maturity is marked by the increasing liberties we take with our travelling... we made the discovery (some people never make it) that real boo….
Joy bursts in our lives when we go about doing the good at hand and not trying to manipulate things and times to achieve joy..
Before we can be cured, we must want to be cured..
I expect you have seen someone put a a lighted match to a bit of newspaper which is propped up in a grate against an unlit fire. And for a second not….
The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very rea….
All schools both here and in America should teach far fewer subjects far better..
Here the whole world (stars, water, air, And field, and forest, as they were Reflected in a single mind) Like cast off clothes was left behind In ash….
Pooh! Grown-ups are always thinking of uninteresting explanations..
Sanity ... had it ever been more than a convention -- a comfortable set of blinkers, an agreed mode of wishful thinking, which excluded from our view….
On the back of Satan's neck is a nail scarred footprint..
The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will..
But all night, Aslan and the Moon gazed upon each other with joyful and unblinking eyes..
To be in love involves the most irresistible conviction that one will go on being in love until one dies, and that possession of the beloved will con….
When you go to church you are really listening in to the secret wireless from our friends..