C. S. Lewis Quotes About Dreams

• If ever they remembered their life in this world it was as one remembers a dream.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dream, World, Remember

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol I: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”, p.132, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

• Suppose... suppose we have only dreamed and made up these things like sun, sky, stars, and moon, and Aslan himself. In that case, it seems to me that the made-up things are a good deal better than the real ones. And if this black pits of a kingdom is the best you can make, then it's a poor world. And we four can make a dream world to lick your real one hollow.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dream, Stars, Real

  "The Silver Chair". TV Series, (1990 - ).

• What we have been told is how we men can be drawn into Christ-can become part of that wonderful present which the young Prince of the universe wants to offer to His Father-that present which is Himself and therefore us in Him. It is the only thing we were made for. And there are strange, exciting hints in the Bible that when we are drawn in, a great many other things in Nature will begin to come right. The bad dream will be over: it will be morning.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dream, Morning, Father

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

• Both good and evil, when they are full grown, become retrospective...That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporary suffering, 'No future bliss can make up for it,' not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory. And of some sinful pleasure they say 'Let me but have this and I'll take the consequences': little dreaming how damnation will spread back and back into their past and contaminate the pleasure of the sin.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Dream, Religious

• Man's conquest of Nature, if the dreams of some scientific planners are realized, means the rule of a few hundreds of men over billions upon billions of men. There neither is nor can be any simple increase of power on Man's side. Each new power won by man is a power over man as well.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dream, Mean, Men

  C. S. Lewis, Michael Ward (2017). “The Abolition of Man: C.S. Lewis’s Classic Essay on Objective Morality: A Critical Edition by Michael Ward”, p.63, TellerBooks

• Nothing which is at all times and in every way agreeable to us can have objective reality. It is of the very nature of the real that it should have sharp corners and rough edges, that it should be resistant, should be itself. Dream-furniture is the only kind on which you never stub your toes or bang your knee.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dream, Real, Should Have

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.80, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dream, Morning, Holiday

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.187, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself?

  C. S. Lewis

  Dream, Stronger, Idiotic

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Collected Letters Volume Three: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963”, p.75, HarperCollins UK

• Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dream, Wisdom, Love You

• As for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dream, Real, Differences

  C. S. Lewis (1980). “Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold”, p.283, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed and then to find yourself still in bed.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dream, Spiritual, Appreciation

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Yours, Jack: The Inspirational Letters of C. S. Lewis”, p.16, HarperCollins UK

• When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of your clothes, your memory of last night, and the noises from the road, you are falling asleep. The highly selective consciousness enjoyed by fully alert men, with all its builded sentiments and consecrated ideals, has as much to be called real as the drowsy chaos, and more.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dream, Memories, Real

  C.S. Lewis (2005). “A Preface to Paradise Lost”, p.130, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

• It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dream, Self, Wish

  C. S. Lewis (1980). “Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold”, p.143, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Fools!" said the man, stamping his foot with rage. "That is the sort of talk that brought me here, and I'd better have been drowned or never born. Do you hear what I say? This is where dreams — dreams, do you understand — come to life, come real. Not daydreams: dreams.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dream, Real, Men

  C. S. Lewis (1997). “The voyage of the Dawn Treader”, HarperCollins Publishers

• Lucy said, 'We're so afraid of being sent away, Aslan. And you have sent us back into our own world so often.' 'No fear of that,' said Aslan. 'Have you not guessed?' Their hearts leapt, and a wild hope rose within them. 'There was a real railway accident,' said Aslan softly. 'Your father and mother and all of you are- as you used to call it in the Shadowlands- dead. The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mother, Dream, Morning

• And for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream. But things that many see may have no taste or moment in them at all, and things that are shown only to one may be spears and water-spouts of truth from the very depth of truth.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dream, Real, Differences

  C. S. Lewis (1980). “Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold”, p.283, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better - the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Dream, Business

• The whole journey was odd and dream-like -- the roaring stream, the wet grey grass, the glimmering cliffs which they were approaching, and always the glorious, silently pacing beast ahead.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dream, Journey, Roaring

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol II: Prince Caspian”, p.109, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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