C.S. Lewis Quotes About Pain and Grief

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.

You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.

Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

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

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, What! You too? I thought I was the only one.

You can make anything by writing.

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original.

Don't shine so others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see Him.

Hardness in the heart is just as much an opponent of grief as forgiveness is.

Some of the most ordinary moments of our lives become the most extraordinary memories.

Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.

Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.

True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.

Aslan is a lion, the lion, the great lion.

Courage, dear heart.

If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.

Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.

Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.

It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.

Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear.

H. was a splinter. Now she's an amputated leg.

The pain now is part of the happiness then.