C. S. Lewis Books by Quote

“It is very true. But even a traitor may mend. I have known one who did.”

“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.”

“I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia.”

“If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.”

“Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.”

“It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.”

“Things never happen the same way twice.”

“There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, in the end, 'Thy will be done.'”

“I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now...Come further up, come further in!”

"You also shall be Psyche."

“'Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.'”

“We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.”

"But there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.”

“They have pulled down deep heaven on their heads.”

“There comes a moment when people who have been dabbling in religion ('man's search for God'!) suddenly draw back. Supposing we really found Him? We never meant it to come to that! Worse still, supposing He had found us?”