C. S. Lewis Quotes

''Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?''

C. S. Lewis

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• If we despond, public confidence is destroyed, the people will no longer yield their support to a hopeless contest, and American liberty is no more. Through the darkness which shrouds our prospects, the ark of safety is visible. Despondency becomes not the dignity of our cause, nor the character of those who are its supporters.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • People
  • Character
  • American

• Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • World
  • Men
  • Quotation

• I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • School
  • Popular
  • Fact

• It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and gas lobbies.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • America
  • Change
  • Ignorance

• Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Hands
  • Starting
  • Filmmaking

• I always try to give my songs as gifts.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Always
  • Try
  • Gifts

• In a weird way, I'm always going to ground myself. I'm an insecure kind of pessimist, but I'm always kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Myself
  • Waiting
  • Weird

• I had no real idea I was going to become a writer. It was just a game for me. I just liked pretending, daydreaming and imagining.

  

  Rabindranath Maharaj
  • Game
  • Idea
  • Writer

• If you begin to think you are solely responsible for keeping your loved one alive and safe, you will eventually find yourself playing God. This phase can develop into an unhealthy, codependent relationship.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • God
  • Relationship
  • Yourself

• We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • World
  • Love
  • Television

• Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice.

  

  Origen
  • Know
  • Justice
  • Place

• For many people, music is here to let them forget the daily chores of life.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• I love to play with Tony and Bill anytime, anywhere.

  

  Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
  • Love
  • Play
  • Anywhere

• Mrs. Montagu has dropt me. Now, Sir, there are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • People
  • Wish

• Once you’ve tasted freedom, it stays in your heart and no one can take it. Then, you can be more powerful than a whole country.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Country
  • Heart
  • Freedom

• Je dis qu'il faut être voyant, se faire voyant. Le poète se fait voyant par un long, immense et raisonné dérèglement de tous les sens.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Long

• Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.

  

  Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Women
  • Mind
  • Silence

• I felt like I could write about quiet, self-contained moments and also about those moments when the world rushes in again.

  

  Jenny Offill
  • World
  • Moments

• By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • City
  • Best
  • Hockey

• I can be inappropriate at times.

  

  Leslie Easterbrook

• All that a Pulitzer really does is give the obit writers something to put between the commas after your name.

  

  Eddie Adams
  • Name
  • Writers
  • Obit

• The universe is transformation.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Universe
  • Transformation

• ''Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?''

  

  C. S. Lewis