C. S. Lewis Quotes About Affection

• Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Valentines Day, Forgiveness

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.188, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The very condition of having Friends is that we should want something else besides Friends. Where the truthful answer to the question "Do you see the same truth?" would be "I see nothing and I don't care about the truth; I only want a Friend," no Friendship can arise - though Affection of course may. There would be nothing for the Friendship to be about; and Friendship must be about something, even if it were only an enthusiasm for dominoes or white mice. Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers.

  C. S. Lewis

  Want Something, White, Would Be

• Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, "Yes. But I bet no dog would ever confess it to the other dogs.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dog, Cat, Affection

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Affection would not be affection if it was loudly and frequently expressed; to produce it in public is like getting your household furniture out for a move. It did very well in its place, but it looks shabby or tawdry or grotesque in the sunshine.

  C. S. Lewis

  Moving, Sunshine, Looks

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.46, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• In my experience, it is Affection that creates this taste, teaching us first to notice, then to endure, then to smile at, then to enjoy, and finally to appreciate the people who 'happen to be there.' Made for us? Thank God, no. They are themselves, odder than you could have believed and worth far more than we guessed.

  C. S. Lewis

  Teaching, People, Appreciate

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• A tyrannous and gluttonous demand for affection can be a horrible thing. But in ordinary life no one calls a child selfish because it turns for comfort to its mother; nor an adult who turns to his fellow "for company." Those, whether children or adults, who do so least are not usually the most selfless.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mother, Children, Selfish

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• There is something in natural affection which will lead it on to eternal love more easily than natural appetite could be led on. But there's also something in it which makes it easier to stop at the natural level and mistake it for the heavenly. Brass is mistaken for gold more easily than clay is. And if it finally refuses conversion its corruption will be worse than the corruption of what ye call the lower passions. It is a stronger angel, and therefor, when it falls, a fiercer devil.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Mistake, Fall

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