11 C. S. Lewis Quotes on Life

C. S. Lewis quotes on life

18. Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.

29. Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal.... As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

35. The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) destines them for eternity.

37. Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows.

49. 100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased.

51. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendours.

75. But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are 'on' concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.

98. 'No thanks,' said Digory, 'I don't know that I care much about living on and on after everyone I know is dead. I'd rather live an ordinary time and die and go to Heaven.' (ch. 13)

165. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

180. ''Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?''

181. Die before you Die. There is no chance after.