C. S. Lewis Quotes

Idolatry is really not good for anyone. Not even the idols.

It's the things we love most that destroy us.

Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing.

So I put up with bad behavior in the name of loving the way I thought you were supposed to love.

Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice.

When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them.

Destruction is a true sign of devotion. As I always tell my girlfriend when she threatens to kill me. 'You should kill me and it would tell me that you love me.

They will love me for that which destroys me.

Love can make us do dreadful things.

It’s one thing to be the greatest; it’s another thing to be necessary. The best are the most necessary: those who take less than they give and love more than they hate.

The only truly intersting side of the matter was the intimate design of the injury, the fact that it was so penetrating, custom-made exactly to your measure. It's fascinating that hatred should be so personal as to be almost loving. The knife and the wound aching for each other.

I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession with undertones of nausea.

The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.

Hatred is like a long, dark shadow. Not even the person it falls upon knows where it comes from, in most cases. It is like a two-edged sword. When you cut the other person, you cut yourself. The more violently you hack at the other person, the more violently you hack at yourself. It can often be fatal. But it is not easy to dispose of. Please be careful, Mr.Okada. It is very dangerous. Once it has taken root in your heart, hatred is the most difficult think in the world to shake off.

Each man kills the thing he loves.

Never love someone whom you think you need to mend – or who makes you feel like you should be mended. There are boys out there who look for shining girls; they will stand next to you and say quiet things in your ear that only you can hear and that will slowly drain the joy out of your heart. The books about vampires are true, baby. Drive a stake through their hearts and run away.

Love is blind, you just see bright light

When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options." -Bella

I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake

We get crazy when we can't make things be like the world tells us they are". She looked back out the window. "It was that way for me and your brother, I think. I mean, how could I have loved him that last year? I didn't even know who he was. He was way more attracted to drugs and bikers and that whole lifestyle than he was to me. But somebody told me that if you really loved somebody,you stayed with him no matter what. You had to fight for him." She laughe. "Hell, I was convinced.

Even our pets can become idols.

Every man kills the things that he loves. Some with a look, some with flattery, the coward with a kiss.

I do not love men: I love what devours them.

You can never love anyone to your own detriment. That is not love, that is possession, control, fear, or a combination of them all.

Anything you love more, fear more, serve more, or value more than God is your idol.