C. S. Lewis Quotes

And smiles to go before I weep, And Smiles to go before I weep.

She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.

Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth.

She tried to smile sympathetically, but with her face it wasn't quite possible.

How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping?

You perhaps now know that desire reduces us to pulp.

When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don’t feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy; then you get two feelings for the price of one.

A clown needn't be the same out of the ring as he has to be when he's in it. If you look at photographs of clowns when they're just being ordinary men, they've got quite sad faces.

She cried a little, but only inside, because long ago she had decided she didn't like crying because if you ever started to cry it seemed as if there was so much to cry about you almost couldn't stop, and she didn't like that at all.

One does not always know how to express the sorrow of the soul. One does not always know how to silence the joy of the heart.

There are times when the mirth of others only saddens us, especially the mirth of children with high spirits, that jar on our own quiet mood.

Why were you feeling low? Why does anyone? It creeps up on you from time to time.

people never write calmly but when they write indifferently.

I have as much rage as you have, I have as much pain as you do, I've lived as much hell as you have, and I've kept mine bubbling under for you.

Proclaim your pride and bitterness loudly to the world, but to me speak softly, and tell me simply that she doesn't love you.

Don't make me laugh, I'd much rather cry.

I wish to cry. Yet, I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on top of the beer can

So sadness is a place?' Giovanni asked. 'Sometimes people live there for years,'I said.

Go! you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away! There 's such a charm in melancholy I would not if I could be gay.

Sam?" Rachel asked. "Do you know you have the saddest sad face ever?

There are few faces that can afford to smile: a smile is sometimes bewitching, in general vapid, often a contortion.

I definitely can relate to being down and closed-off at certain times in my life.

Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.

His emotion evident in the glitter of his eyes.