The great divorce quotes
- “It’s a weapon on the other side. It leaps quicker than light from the highest place to the lowest to bring healing and joy, whatever the cost to itself. It changes darkness into light [112] and evil into good. But it will not, at the cunning tears of Hell, impose on good the tyranny of evil. Every disease that submits to a cure shall be cured: but we will not call blue yellow to please those who insist on still having jaundice, nor make a midden of the world’s garden for the sake of some who cannot abide the smell of roses.”― C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
- “For to be afraid of oneself is the last horror. But,”
- “Of course. Having allowed oneself to drift, unresisting, unpaying, accepting every half-conscious solicitation from our desires, we reached a point where we no longer believed the Faith.”
The great divorce quotes
- “I cannot love a lie,” said the Lady. “cannot love the thing which is not. I am in Love, and out of it I will not go.”
- “No, not as you mean. I do not look at my self. have given up myself. I had to, you know, after the murder. That was what it did for me. And that was how everything began.”
- “The whole difficulty of understanding Hell is that the thing to be understood is so nearly Nothing.”
- “Ye will have divined that he meant to frighten her; not that fear itself could make her less a Ghost, but if it took her mind a moment off herself, there might, in that moment, be a chance. I have seen them saved so.”
“No need to bother about it? Aren’t you ashamed of yourself?”
cs Lewis the great divorce quotes
- “I believe, to be sure, that any man who reaches Heaven will find that what he abandoned (even in plucking out his right eye) was precisely nothing: that the kernel of what he was really seeking even in his most depraved wishes will be there, beyond expectation, waiting for him in “The High Countries.”
- “At College, you know, we just started automatically writing the kind of essays that got good marks and saying the kind of things that won applause.”
- “Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition. Time itself, and all acts and events that fill Time, are the definition, and it most be lived.”
- “We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the Centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork you must make a decision. Even on the biological level life is not like a river but like a tree. It does not move towards unity but away from it and the creatures grow further apart as they increase in perfection. Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.”― C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
- “We know nothing of religion here: we think only of Christ. We know nothing of speculation. Come and see. I will bring you to Eternal Fact, the Father of all other fact-hood.”
The great divorce quotes
“I shrank from the faces and forms by which I was surrounded. They were all fixed faces, full not of possibilities but impossibilities,”
- “What do you keep arguing for? I’m only telling you the sort of chap I am. I only want my rights. I’m not asking for anybody’s bleeding charity.”
“Then do. At once. Ask for the Bleeding Charity. Everything is here for the asking and nothing can be bought.”