C. S. Lewis Quotes

When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

’While there is life, there’s hope,’ he cried; ‘Then why such haste?’ so groaned and died.

It was pitch dark. I could hear only the violin, and it was as though Juliek's soul were the bow. He was playing his life. The whole of his life was gliding on the strings--his last hopes, his charred past, his extinguished future. He played as he would never play again...When I awoke, in the daylight, I could see Juliek, opposite me, slumped over, dead. Near him lay his violin, smashed, trampled, a strange overwhelming little corpse.

Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope.

[H]owever hard the road, however difficult today, tomorrow things will be better. Tomorrow may not be better, but we must believe that it will be.

All I know is that I have two choices – stay wrapped in blankets and get on with dying, or get the list back together and get on with living.

As long as you're alive, there's always a chance things will get better." "Or worse," said Liraz. "Yes," he conceded. "Usually worse." Hazael cut in. "My sister, Sunshine, and my brother, Light. You two should rally the ranks. You'll have us killing ourselves by morning.

As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off.

Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.

I don't want to lose hope.

As long as you can walk the street and you know there's a tomorrow, there's always that chance. That's how I've always been. I've always had complete belief that I would make something out of myself again, because to me, it's always been about accomplishment.

She was alive, and they were dead. She had to try to make her life big. As big as she could. She promised Bailey she would keep playing.

If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.

Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.

You were supposed to have hope, right? You were supposed to respect its power and hold on. And so I did. I held, and held, and let hope fill me. But as the days went on, it seemed I could be holding for a long, long time. Hope could be the most powerful thing or the most useless

I cannot, will not, withhold from my young readers the harsh realities of human hunger and suffering and loss, but neither will I neglect to plant that stubborn seed of hope that has enabled our race to outlast wars and famines and the destruction of death.

If you're feeling low, don't despair. The sun has a sinking spell every night, but it comes back up every morning.

I am of the opinion, and even more so the older I get, that it is more difficult to have hope than it is to despair. And I mean this in the sense that in order to have hope you must acknowledge the despair and then you have to get beyond it. Taken from a radio interview given on BBC Radio 4's Open Book

It is hard to go on living without some hope of encountering the extraordinary.

To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies; And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise.

But tomorrow I see a change, a chance to build anew, built on Spirit, intent of heart, and ideas based on truth. Tomorrow I wake with second wind and strong ideas of pride. I know I fought with all my heart to keep the dream alive.

Please don't set me free Death means a lot me

If you believe, then you hang on. If you believe, it means you've got imagination, you don't need stuff thrown out on a blueprint, and don't face facts-what can stop you? If I don't make it today, I'll come in tomorrow.

Survival in the conventional sense of the term means to continue to live, but also to live after death.