C. S. Lewis Quotes
Author of The Chronicles of Narnia and Mere Christianity. Lewis wrote about faith, friendship, grief and joy with warmth and luminous common sense. Below are 16 of the most loved C. S. Lewis quotes, chosen from across their works and letters. Tap Copy on any quote to save or share it.
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
Joy is the serious business of Heaven.
If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
We read to know we are not alone.
Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
To love at all is to be vulnerable.
Integrity is doing the right thing when no one is watching.
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.
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.