C. S. Lewis Quotes About Childhood

• Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence.

  C. S. Lewis

  Childhood, Adults, Approval

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

  C. S. Lewis

  Fear, Children, Growing Up

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish actual childhood back. We have kept its pleasures and added some grown-up ones as well.

  C. S. Lewis

  Childhood, Wish, Fairy Tale

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “Letters to an American Lady”, p.9, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

• It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.

  C. S. Lewis

  Reading, Childhood, Stories

  "On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature".

• Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even in the best) of that something which you were born desiring, and which, beneath the flux of other desires and in all the momentary silences between the louder passions, night and day, year by year, from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for, listening for? You have never had it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Passion, Night, Years

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