C. S. Lewis Quotes

Much thought has at its root a dissatisfaction with what is. Wanting is the urge for the next moment to contain what this moment does not. When there is wanting in the mind, that moment feels incomplete. Wanting is seeing elsewhere. Completeness is being right here.

I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.

I sat on the hill, the wind whispering through the long grass that surrounded me. I stared at the stars and wanted more than what I was and more than what the world was and just - wanted.

Desire is never final, desire is imprecise and impractical [...]

Just once in my life--oh, when have I ever wanted anything just once in my life?

You may win your heart's desire, but in the end you're cheated of it by death.

The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.

Why is the place where I want to be so often so far from where I am?

The one-legged creature is envious of the millipede; the millipede is envious of the snake; the snake is envious of the wind; the wind is envious of the eye; the eye is envious of the heart.

This world can only give me reminders of what I don't have, can never have, didn't have for long enough.

Desire is wakeful; satisfaction dozes.

I felt that I could swim for miles, out into the ocean: a desire for freedom, an impulse to move, tugged at me as though it were a thread fastened to my chest. It was an impulse I knew well, and I had learned that it was not the summons from a larger world I used to believe it to be. It was simply a desire to escape from what I had.

It is better to desire than to enjoy, to love than to be loved.

The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: There is a forward motion to yearning.

If you were a star you'd be the one I'm searching for

The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow.

Want! You must want something. What do you want?

What I really wanted was the impossible.

When he was in school he longed to be out, and when he was out he longed to be in. On the way he thought about coming home, and coming home he thought about going. Wherever he was he wished he were somewhere else, and when he got there he wondered why he'd even bothered.

I am going to tell you a secret. Everything is about wanting. Everything. Things happen because of people wanting. Watch closely, and you’ll see what I mean.

Desire is the great equalizer.

All I see is people out there who are hungry for more.

I think that what people always want is what they don't have a lot of...

I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.