C. S. Lewis Quotes About Solitude

• We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Loneliness, Silence

  "The Weight of Glory". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1949.

• I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.

  C. S. Lewis

  Book, Wind, Long

  C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Tea should be taken in solitude.

  C. S. Lewis

  Taken, Solitude, Tea

  C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Men, Solitude

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.206, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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