C. S. Lewis Quotes About Love

• When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Marriage, Valentines Day

• There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Inspirational, Life

• Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Religious, Secret

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.140, Simon and Schuster
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  I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Inspirational, Sad
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  To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Inspirational, Broken Heart

• To love is to be vulnerable.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Godly, Romance

• Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Friendship, Inspiration

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.90, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Broken Heart, Hurt

• 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

• To love at all is to be vulnerable.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Inspirational, Vulnerable

• Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Hurt, Losing

• I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Sides, Narnia

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol IV: The Silver Chair”, p.132, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

• This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Giving, Miracle

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.34, Faber & Faber

• Love is unselfishly choosing for another's highest good.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Relationship Advice, Highest

• The love of knowledge is a kind of madness.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Knowledge, Mad

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Out of the Silent Planet”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

• When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Christian, Mere

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

• If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Pain, Bereavement

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.25, Faber & Faber

• And now, what does it all matter? It matters more than anything else in the world. The whole dance, or drama, or pattern of this three-Personal life is to be played out in each one of us: or (putting it the other way round) each one of us has got to enter that pattern, take his place in that dance. There is no other way to the happiness for which we were made.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Drama, Doe

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.331, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Happiness, Joy

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Last year, when he had been staying with the Pevensies, he had managed to hear them all talking of Narnia and he loved teasing them about it. He thought of course that they were making it all up; and as he was far too stupid to make anything up himself, he did not approve of that.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Stupid, Talking

  C. S. Lewis (2010). “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader”, p.10, HarperCollins UK

• It is no disparagement to the garden to say it will not fence and weed itself, nor prune its own fruit trees, nor roll and cut its own lawns...It will remain a garden only if someone does all these things to it...If you want to see the difference between [the garden's] contribution and the gardener's, put the commonest weed it grows side by side with his hoes rakes, shears, and a packet of weed killer; you have put beauty, energy, and fecundity beside dead, steril things. Just so, our 'decency and common sense' show grey and deathlike beside the geniality of love.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Weed, Cutting

• 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

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