C. S. Lewis Quotes

My point of view is, I'm just a person, and there are times when I look at other people and think, 'My God, they spend so much time thinking about things that seem so absurd.' But I'm sure people must think the same thing about me.

Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.

Coming off 'Reflection,' what we really wanted to do was be more vulnerable.

The ghost of a smile flickered across his lips. ‘You’re always the voice of reason. Just try listening to yourself once in a while.

What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.

It was unbearable, and he thought again, 'How unhappy I am!' and became happier.

Who can really distinguish between the sea and what's reflected in it? Or tell the difference between the falling rain and loneliness?

Beauty can never really understand itself.

You can't see the world through a mirror.

I usually look in my eyes to tell the truth of how I'm feeling that day.

Is a little experience too much to pay for learning to know oneself?

I like living with myself. I mean obviously, because here I am interviewing myself.

That (sex) was the most fun I ever had without laughing.

I tried to pay attention, but attention paid me.

Nobody has ever been able to experience what they have thoroughly understood - or understand what they have experienced until they have achieved a detachment that renders them incapable of repeating the experience.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship.

Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.

Least at thine own things laugh.

I think that if I get into the habit of writing a bit about what happens, or rather doesn't happen, I may lose a little of the sense of isolation and desolation which abides with me. My circumstances allowing of nothing but the ejaculation of one-syllabled reflections, a written monologue by that most interesting being, myself, may have its yet to be discovered consolations.

A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride.

Experience is only half of experience.

We are the mirror - As well as the face in it.

Look into the mirror of the world, and you will see only yourself.