Quotes from CS Lewis

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.

Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step. For lasting passion is the dream of a harlot, and from it we wake in despair.

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.

No one ever told me grief felt so much like fear.

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.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.

There are two kinds of people those who say to God, Thy will be done, and those to whom God says, All right, then, have it your way.

Time and tides wait for none

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.

You are never too old to dream a new dream or set another goal.