Quotes from CS Lewis

Beauty is not democratic; she reveals herself more to the few than to the many.

And that's why, gentleman, if your little girl doesn't come up to scratch, it will be our painful duty to cut all your throats. Merely in a way of business, as you might say, and no offense, I hope.

Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.

The death of a beloved is an amputation.

I have always at least, ever since I can remember had a kind of longing for death.

[The witch] would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards.

Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?

Every one says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.

I have learned now that while those who speak about ones miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

The rule for us all is perfectly simple. Do not waste time bothering whether you love your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him

True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.