C. S. Lewis

Origin : Irish

Born :29 November 1898

Tribute :22 November 1963

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C. S. Lewis born on 29th November 1898, and passed away on 22th November 1963, leaving behind a legacy that continues to inspire generations. Over the past 64 years, we have thoughtfully curated a selection of 58 powerful, inspirational, and motivational quotes - carefully handpicked from an extensive archive of life lessons and timeless wisdom. This legendary quote writer was born in irish and went on to share won inspiring words with the world, leaving behind a global legacy that transcends borders.

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Quotes of C. S. Lewis

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

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.

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

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.

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

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

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

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