C. S. Lewis Quotes

I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death.

One must desire something to be alive; perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.

I believe we came from nowhere. We show up, and we are now here. It's all the same. It just is a question of spacing. While we are in the "now here," we all contemplate where we are going. Where we are going is back to the "nowhere." We are going to rejoin the spirit from which all things emanate. These are the big questions for me - always.

No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.

I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.

Without faith that there's a world beyond the one we live in, I don't see how it's possible to get rid of angst.

I will burn, but this is a mere event. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.

The doctrine of immortality rests upon human affection. We love; therefore, we wish to live.

I'm never afraid to die. I think that's the best thing that can happen to somebody is they get to move on and do something better.

Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

I don't know if I believe in life after death so much as I believe that there is something out there.

I don't believe in death.

The only length of life that seems to satisfy the longings of the human heart is life everlasting.

The lyrics are a lot about those big questions: why are we here, how did we get here, what's the point, and what's next. When those questions come up with fans, I would absolutely share with them what has helped me and where I stand on what it is that I believe.

I'm very interested in theories in how we exist: how people exist and how souls exist separate from their bodies or their brains.

I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.

What does it mean to be born? After we die, will it be the same thing as it was before we were born? Or a different kind of nothingness? Because there might be knowledge then. Memory.

Everyone is possessed with an irresistible desire to know his relationship to the Infinite.

Your faith is very important. I have done the math, and you are going to be dead a whole lot longer that you will be alive.

We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.

What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring.

I'm going to a special place when I die, but I want to make sure my life is special while I'm here.