C. S. Lewis Quotes

You think you know how this story is going to end, but you don't.

Don't adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.

Take the adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes! 'Tis but a banging of the door behind you, a blithesome step forward, and you are out of your old life and into the new!

Don't be afraid to take that leap into the unknown.

Getting married is an adventure. Because when you're getting married, you're doing something you don't know anything about. Did you ever think of that?

Take a leap of faith. You will either land somewhere new or learn to fly.

Perchance the time will come when we shall not be content to go back and forth upon a raft to some huge Homeric or Shakespearean Indiaman that lies upon the reef, but build a bark out of that wreck and others that are buried in the sands of this desolate island, and such new timber as may be required, in which to sail away to whole new worlds of light and life, where our friends are.

There is nothing more thrilling than arriving in a new place on your own and feeling the sense of possibility and excitement that brings with it.

There was a smile dancing on his lips, although it was a wary smile, for the world is a bigger place than a little graveyard on a hill; and there would be dangers in it and mysteries, new friends to make, old friends to rediscover, mistakes to be made and many paths to be walked before he would, finally, return to the graveyard or ride with the Lady on the broad back of her great grey stallion.

It be better, I think, to climb out in search of something, instead of hating, what you're leaving.

where the world ends is where you must begin

Let’s focus on where you could end up, not where you were or are.

It’s so much more romantic to end a story up with a funeral than a wedding.

And that's why people read comics, to get away from the way life works, which is quite cruel and unheroic and ends in death.

I have been to the world's end and back and now I know what I would put in my bottom drawer .I would put my sisters.

It is exciting to be off to a new land with a new friend.

Start. Don’t look back. If at the end it doesn’t meet your hopes, start again. Now you know more about your hopes.

I view the end of the geographical feat as the beginning of the missionary enterprise.

Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up.

Are there not, dear Michael, Two points in the adventure of the diver,- One, when a beggar he prepares to plunge; One, when a prince he rises with his pearl? Festus, I plunge.

Fortunately, at the end of every season, we close the chapter and start anew. That's the language of the series now, so it can organically come to a conclusion that we love.

It isn't all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning.

Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate And though I oft have passed them by A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.

The one thing about me is that I don’t even know where I’ll end up, and I don’t know what I’ll be doing but I know that I’ll never really stop.