C. S. Lewis Quotes

I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came.

I can't live my life worrying about something that might never happen.

Literally, I don't know where life is gonna go from one day to the next, and that's as exciting as it is tiring.

The future is called 'perhaps', which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

Ambiguity is our permanent state, isn't it? We don't like it being so. Most of us crave order and routine, and yet yawning before us is our future, as frightening as it is thrilling.

I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

Are you the sort of person who can turn around when you have nothing left, and find that little bit extra inside you to keep going, or do you sag and wilt with exhaustion? It is a mental game, and it is hard to tell how people will react until they are squeezed.

At first I was almost about to despair, I thought I never could bear it — but I did I bear it. The question remains: how?

Some of us say, "Lord knows how much I can bear". I think you can assume that you can bear more than you have a right to bear.

We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by them.

Accustom yourself to that which you bear ill, and you will bear it well.

Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are.

History shows you don't know what the future brings.

But, I'm kind of a control freak. I get really freaked out if I don't know what's going on and what's going to happen.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

People struggle with moments of deep dread about life and moments of surety. Often within the course of the same day. Life is a roller coaster, especially if you take risks.

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?

I'm anxious about work, the future, friendships, past relationships... I'm just one of those people that, whatever I'm doing, it's a big worry.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

I am at that age when you panic at the slightest thing.

I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.

Life is a risk.

It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.

I don't know if I can prepare for what's to come because I don't know what will.