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“He communicated (what I very much needed) a sense of the gusto with which life ought, wherever possible, to be taken. I fancy it was on a run with him in the sleet that I first discovered how bad weather is to be treated—as a rough joke, a romp.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

“The idea that human beings should exercise their vocal organs for any purpose except that of communicating or discovering truth was to him preposterous.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

“I think that this feigning, this ceaseless pretense of interest in matters to me supremely boring, was what wore me out more than anything else.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

“We have learned not to take present things at their face value.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

“Words came to him and intoxicated him as they came.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

“I accepted games (quite a number of boys do) as one of the necessary evils of life, comparable to Income Tax or the Dentist.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

“I have tried so to write the first chapter that those who can't bear such a story will see at once what they are in for and close the book with the least waste of time.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

“I have been emboldened to write of it because I notice that a man seldom mentions what he had supposed to be his most idiosyncratic sensations without receiving from at least one (often more) of those present the reply, 'What! Have you felt that too? I always thought I was the only one.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

“A good, but unexamined life will be high on duty and not likely to celebrate the odd paradoxes, the ironic coincidences and the humor of being dirt...”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

“I imagined life outside narcissism. I wondered how beautiful it might be to think of others as more important than myself. I wondered at how peaceful it might be not to be pestered by that childish voice that wants for pleasure and attention. I wondered what it would be like to live in a house of mirrors everywhere I go, being reminded of myself.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

“The whole thing became a matter of speculation: I was soon (in the famous words) “altering ‘I believeâ€� to ‘one does feel.â€� â€� And oh, the relief of it!”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

“who can describe beauty? The reader may smile at this as the far-off echo of a precocious calf love, but he will be wrong. There are beauties so unambiguous that they need no lens of that kind to reveal them; they are visible even to the careless and objective eyes of a child.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

“Life at a vile boarding school is in this way a good preparation for the Christian life, that it teaches one to live by hope.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

“They say that a shared sorrow draws people closer together; I can hardly believe that it often has that effect when those who share it are of widely different ages.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

“My real life—or what memory reports as my real life—was increasingly one of solitude. I had indeed plenty of people to talk to: my parents, my grandfather Lewis, prematurely old and deaf, who lived with us; the maids; and a somewhat bibulous old gardener. I was, I believe, an intolerable chatterbox. But solitude was nearly always at my command, somewhere in the garden or somewhere in the house.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

“the exacting memory of childhood can discover no flaw—nothing but kindness, gaiety, and good sense.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

“Even in peacetime I think those are very wrong who say that schoolboys should be encouraged to read the newspapers. Nearly all that a boy reads there in his teens will be known before he is twenty to have been false in emphasis and interpretation, if not in fact as well, and most of it will have lost all importance. Most of what he remembers he will therefore have to unlearn; and he will probably have acquired an incurable taste for vulgarity and sensationalism and the fatal habit of fluttering from paragraph to paragraph to learn how an actress has been divorced in California, a train derailed in France, and quadruplets born in New Zealand.”
― C.S. Lewis, Suprised by Joy

“Such, then, was the state of my imaginative life; over against it stood the life of my intellect. The two hemispheres of my mind were in the sharpest contrast. On the one side a many-islanded sea of poetry and myth; on the other a glib and shallow "rationalism". Nearly all that I loved I believed to be imaginary; nearly all that I believed to be real I thought grim and meaningless.”
― C.S. Lewis, Suprised by Joy

“Such, then, was the state of my imaginative life; over advise it stood the life of my intellect. The two hemispheres of my mind were in the sharpest contrast. On the one side a many-islanded sea of poetry and myth; on the other a glib and shallow "rationalism". Nearly all that I loved I believed to be imaginary; nearly all that I believed to be real I thought grim and meaningless.”
― C.S. Lewis, Suprised by Joy

“But Nature and the books now become equal reminders[...] It was the mood of a scene that mattered to me; and in tasting that mood my skin and nose were as busy as my eyes.”
― C.S. Lewis, Suprised by Joy

“...one of the first results of my Theistic conversion was a marked decrease...in the fussy attentiveness which I had so long paid to the progress of my own opinions and the states of my own mind. For many healthy extroverts self-examination first begins with conversion. For me it was almost the other way round. Self-examination did of course continue. But it was...at stated intervals, and for a practical purpose; a duty, a discipline, an uncomfortable thing, no longer a hobby or a habit. To believe and to pray were the beginning of extroversion. I had been, as they say, "taken out of myself'.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

“The empty house, the empty, silent rooms, were like a refreshing bath after the crowded noise of Campbell. I could read, write, and draw to my heart’s content.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

“I number it among my blessings that my father had no car, while yet most of my friends had, and sometimes took me for a drive. This meant that all these distant objects could be visited just enough to clothe them with memories and not impossible desires, while yet they remained ordinarily as inaccessible as the Moon. The deadly power of rushing about wherever I pleased had not been given me. I measured distances by the standard of man, man walking on his two feet, not by the standard of the internal combustion engine. I had not been allowed to deflower the very idea of distance; in return I possessed ‘infinite richesâ€� in what would have been to motorists ‘a little roomâ€�. The truest and most horrible claim made for modern transport is that it ‘annihilates spaceâ€�. It does. It annihilates one of the most glorious gifts we have been given. It is a vile inflation which lowers the value of distance, so that a modern boy travels a hundred miles with less sense of liberation and pilgrimage and adventure than his grandfather got from travelling ten. Of course if a man hates space and wants it to be annihilated, that is another matter. Why not creep into his coffin at once? There is little enough space there.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

“I had hoped that the heart of reality might be of such a kind that we can best symbolize it as a place; instead, I found it to be a person.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

“It is important to acquire early in life the power of reading sense wherever you happen to be.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

“No word in my vocabulary expressed deeper hatred than the word Interference. But Christianity placed at the centre what then seemed to me a transcendental Interferer. If its picture were true then no sort of “treaty with realityâ€� could ever be possible. There was no region even in the innermost depth of one’s soul (nay, there least of all) which one could surround with a barbed wire fence and guard with a notice No Admittance. And that was what I wanted; some area, however small, of which I could say to all other beings, “This is my business and mine only.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The shape of my early life

“I thought the business of us finite and half-unreal souls was to multiply the consciousness of Spirit by seeing the world from different positions while yet remaining qualitatively the same as Spirit.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

“If Shakespeare and hamlet could ever meet, it must be Shakespeare's doing.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

“Seeing the world from different positions while yet remaining qualitatively the same as Spirit; tied to a particular time and place and set of circumstances, yet there to will and think as Spirit itself does. This is hard; for the very act whereby Spirit projected souls and a world gave those souls different and competitive interests.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

“The deepest solitude is a road right out of itself”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life