C. S. Lewis Quotes

The world stretches before me, the vast world of the big, the little, and the medium.

The world is much more mysterious than we ever thought.

We're giants, and we're unaware of things that are too small for us to see.

She felt as if she had strayed into a fairy tale, as full of peril as of wonder, a place where anything could happen.

The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but Size.

Things seem more when you’re little. They seem bigger, and distances seem farther.

How do you calculate upon the unforeseen? It seems to be an art of recognizing the role of the unforeseen, of keeping your balance amid surprises, of collaborating with chance, of recognizing that there are some essential mysteries in the world and thereby a limit to calculation, to plan, to control. To calculate on the unforeseen is perhaps exactly the paradoxical operation that life most requires of us.

One last word of advice, though, Mr. Okada, though you may not want to hear this. There are things in this world it is better not to know about. Of course, those are the very things that people most want to know about. It's strange.

If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.

It's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it?

Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.

The paradoxical virtue of reading lies in distancing ourselves from the world so that we may make sense of it.

Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!

A stranger here Strange things doth meet, strange glories see; Strange treasures lodged in this fair world appear, Strange all, and new to me. But that they mine should be, who nothing was, That strangest is of all, yet brought to pass.

The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn't so funny.

A world like that, which exists only because the gods enjoy a joke, must be a place where magic can survive. And sex too, of course.

There is much more mystery in the shadow of a man walking on a sunny day, than in all religions of the world.

I had seen the great, but I had not seen the small.

The fairy tale always takes place in worlds that are between, unidentifiable.

They call him Aslan in That Place," said Eustace. "What a curious name!" "Not half so curious as himself," said Eustace solemnly.

As small as a world as large as alone.

We spend our lives on a thin slice between the unimaginably small scales of the atoms that compose us and the infinitely large scales of galaxies.

He dreamed he was eating shredded wheat and woke up to find the mattress half gone.

The ant's a centaur in his dragon world.

We Americans are trained to think big, talk big, act big, love big, admire bigness but then the essential mystery is in the small.