C. S. Lewis Quotes

The windiest militant trash Important Persons shout Is not so crude as our wish: What mad Nijinsky wrote About Diaghilev Is true of the normal heart; For the error bred in the bone Of each woman and each man Craves what it cannot have; Not universal love But to be loved alone.

I don't like things held up before me that I cannot have.

And I ran after that voice through the streets so as not to lose sight of the splendid wreath of bodies gliding over the city, and I realized with anguish in my heart that they were flying like birds and I was falling like a stone, that they had wings and I would never have any.

Sydney: Ever had that happen? Once you can’t have something, you want it that much more.” Adrian: “Yes. It happens all the time.

Nothing more or less than the deepest, most desperate desire of our hearts.

All that produces longing in the heart deprives it of its freedom.

Sometimes you don't even know what you want until you find out you can't have it.

There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.

God knows the dreams and desires in your heart; in fact, He gave them to you. He will order your steps and take you where you need to be.

When I try to portray to myself my heart's desire, nothing happens.

The heart's in it then, spinning dreams, and torment is on the way. The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.

The more the heart is nourished with happiness, the more it is insatiable.

At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.

You are born with the yearning arrow, my Glynna, though you are not yet fully aware of it. It is not a happy thing to possess, for nothing on earth - no goal, no person how ever beloved - will answer it. It points to the sky and to the heavens and the stars and when it cannot reach them, it must fall back to pierce your heart.

We never want Him. We say, "Lord, give me a fine house." We want the house, not Him. "Give me health! Save me from this difficulty!" When a man wants nothing but Him, [he gets Him].

Your Heart's Desire is the Voice of God, and that Voice must be obeyed sooner or later.

Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror, be it clear as Kheled-zaram. Or so says the heart of Gimli the Dwarf.

It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart.

I think that what people always want is what they don't have a lot of...

Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.

Deep in every heart slumbers a dream

Dreams are matters of the heart, things that pull you along as if they have hooked you someplace deep inside.

A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t make ourselves want what’s good for us or what’s good for other people. We don’t get to choose the people we are.

Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these? Surely the heart that conceived it sought Heart's ease.

If you have a longing in your heart to hear a deeper truth, there's a mysterious way in which that truth will find you.