C. S. Lewis Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old C. S. Lewis quotes, C. S. Lewis sayings, and C. S. Lewis proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more. C. S. Lewis
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. C. S. Lewis
Everyone who believes in God at all believes that he knows what you and I are going to do tomorrow. C. S. Lewis
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. C. S. Lewis
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. C. S. Lewis
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind. C. S. Lewis
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. C. S. Lewis
We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive. C. S. Lewis
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. C. S. Lewis
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. C. S. Lewis
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. C. S. Lewis
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one! C. S. Lewis
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature. C. S. Lewis
In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice. C. S. Lewis
Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief. C. S. Lewis
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. C. S. Lewis
The Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. C. S. Lewis
There are far, far better things ahead than anything we leave behind. C. S. Lewis
There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind. C. S. Lewis
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. C. S. Lewis
You are never too old to set a new goal or dream a new dream. C. S. Lewis
A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet. C. S. Lewis
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil C. S. Lewis
Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago. C. S. Lewis
A man who has been in another world does not come back unchanged. One can't put the difference into words. When the man is a friend it may become painful: the old footing is not easy to recover. C. S. Lewis
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. C. S. Lewis
When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place. C. S. Lewis
I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him not to forgive me but to excuse me. C. S. Lewis
There are far, far better things ahead than anything we leave behind. C. S. Lewis
I believe there are too many practitioners in the church who are not believers. C. S. Lewis