C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed Quotes
Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.
What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?
My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.
Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?
And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.
I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.
The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable.
How wicked it would be, if we could, to call the dead back! She said not to me but to the chaplain, 'I am at peace with God.' She smiled, but not at me. Poi si torno all' eterna fontana.
Of course the cat will growl and spit at the operator and bite him if she can. But the real question is whether he is a vet or a vivisector.
There was no sudden, striking, and emotional transition. Like the warming of a room or the coming of daylight. When you first notice them they have already been going on for some time.
Did you ever know, dear, how much you took away with you when you left? You have stripped me even of my past, even of the things we never shared.
Sometimes it is hard not to say "God forgive God." Sometimes, it is hard to say so much. But if our faith is true, He didn't. He crucified Him.
