C. S. Lewis Quotes

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.

It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust.

The soul never dies and the body is never really alive.

As far as where I go when I die, the concept that I am simple going to flick out, like a light bulb, to me is not only spiritually impossible to believe, but logically it is laughable - the idea that we simply die and nothing happens.

I know that there is no such thing as death, because our spirit has always been alive and always will be. We are as eternal as God who created us.

The question whether our conscious personality survives after death has been answered by almost all races of men in the affirmative.

Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.

Personally, I am convinced the human personality does survive the change which we call death. Although we have no scientific evidence of this at present, there is no reason to suppose it will always be lacking.

The Qur'an says that every soul must taste of death. None of us can escape that, but for you there is no such thing as 'death'.

It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should only be organised dust - ready to fly abroad the moment the spring snaps, or the spark goes out, which kept it together. Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.

There are some dead who are more alive than the living.

Death is not the end, but a more glorified existence.

Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death.

The Dead are like the stars by day; Withdrawn from mortal eye, But not extinct, they hold their way In glory through the sky.

I believe ... that the soul of man is immortal and will be treated with justice in another life, respecting its conduct in this.

I swear I think there is nothing but immortality!

We passionately long that there may be another life in which we shall be similar to what we are here below. But we do not pause to reflect that, even without waiting for that other life, in this life, after a few years we are unfaithful to what we have been, to what we wished to remain immortally.

One thing is certain, that when you die and are resurrected you belong to the earth and whatever is of the earth is yours inalienably. You become an anomaly of nature, a being without shadow; you will never die again but only pass away like the phenomena about you.

I firmly believe that when you die you will enter immediately into another life. They who have gone before us are alive in one form of life and we in another.

The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal.

Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours.

That which is the foundation of all our hopes and of all our fears; all our hopes and fears which are of any consideration; I mean a Future Life.

When I see nothing annihilated, and not even a drop of water wasted, I cannot suspect the annihilation of souls Thus finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist; with all the inconveniences human life is liable to, I shall not object to a new edition of mine; hoping, however, that the errata of the last may be corrected.

Death is like the setting of the sun. The sun never sets; life never ceases. ... we think the sun sets, and it never ceases shining; we think our friends die, and they never cease living.