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Nov 29, 1898 - Nov 22, 1963	Quote Rating Average (90%) Author Rating (88%) Groups: Writers Nationlity: British nationals	C.S. Lewis Quotes: (ranking: 620th) Search C.S. Lewis's quotes
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"If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love."	Life & Death, Love
"Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind."	Life & Death
"It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.'' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter."	Life & Death
"Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal."	Love, Theology
"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."	Love
"Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained."	Love
"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."	Love
"Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased."	Miscellaneous
"Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed?"	Miscellaneous
"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."	Miscellaneous
"You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile."	Miscellaneous
"The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation."	Miscellaneous
"There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious."	Miscellaneous
"We all wish to be judged by our peers, by the men 'after our own heart.' Only they really know our mind and only they judge it by standards we fully acknowledge. Theirs is the praise we really covet and the blame we really dread. The little pockets of early Chrstians survived because they cared exclusively for the love of 'the bretheren' and stopped their ears to the opinion of the Pagan society around them. But a circle of criminals, cranks, or perverts survives in just the same way; by becoming deaf to the opinion of the outer world, by discounting it as the chatter of outsiders who 'don't understand,' of the 'conventional,' the 'bourgeois,' the 'Establishment,' of prigs, prudes, and humbugs."	Miscellaneous
"The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel."	Miscellaneous
"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."	Miscellaneous
"Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all."	Miscellaneous
"Many things--such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly--are done worst when we try hardest to do them."	Miscellaneous
"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."	Miscellaneous
"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing."	Miscellaneous

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