C. S. Lewis Quotes

As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow.

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.

On a soap, happiness never lasts for very long!

The house of laughter makes a house of woe.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

In our lives, we have good things and bad things, happiness and pain.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

I don't think anyone does anything from happiness. Happiness is such a good state, it doesn't need to be creative. You're not creative from happiness, you're just happy. You're creative when you're miserable and depressed. You find the key to transform things. Happiness does not need to transform.

It's very hard to be happy when you've lost.

HAPPY EVER AFTER is a concept I'll never believe in. I would be content to sample some little taste of happiness today, tonight, right now. Though I know without a doubt that tomorrow will come saturated with pain. Life is like that. At least my life. And honestly, I cant think of anyone whose life is any different. The price tag for joy is misery. [...]

The latter end of joy is woe.

No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy.

I don't think we can be entirely happy seeing such misery around us.

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.

Not enough people in this world are happy.

It's not been a pleasant life.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

I lived and languished.

Fans say I have a lot of sorrow in my eyes. It's true.

I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies.

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?