Till We Have Faces Quotes

“Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.”
― C.S. Lewis

“There must, whether the gods see it or not, be something great in the mortal soul. For suffering, it seems, is infinite, and our capacity without limit.”
― C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

“To love, and to lose what we love, are equally things appointed for our nature. If we cannot bear the second well, that evil is ours.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Everything is as good or bad as our opinion makes it. ”
― C.S. Lewis

“It burned me from within. It quickened; I was with book, as a woman is with child.”
― C.S. Lewis

“When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of your soul for years, which you have, all that time, idiot-like, been saying over and over, you'll not talk about joy of words. I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer. Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?”
― C.S Lewis

“Don’t you think the things people are most ashamed of are the things they cannot help?”
-Pysche”
― C.S. Lewis, The 10 Best Books to Read for Easter: Selections to Inspire, Educate, & Provoke: Excerpts from new and classic titles by bestselling authors in the field, with an Introduction by James Martin, SJ.

“And we said we loved her.”
“And we did. She had no more dangerous enemies than us.”
- Queen Orual and The Fox”
― C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

“Do you tell me a strong man would break under the burden a woman is bearing well?”
“Who that knows men would doubt it? They’re harder, but we are tougher. They do not live longer than we.”
- Queen Orual and Ansit”
― C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

“I have said she had no face; but that meant she had a thousand faces.”
- Queen Orual”
― C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

“I did not know then, however, as I do now, the strongest reason for distrust. The gods never send us this invitation to delight so readily or so strongly as when they are preparing some new agony. We are their bubbles; they blow us up big before they prick us.”
― C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

“Don’t you think the things people are most ashamed of are the things they cannot help?
-Psyche”
― C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

“Would you rather have had justice?”
-The Fox”
― C.S. Lewis

“We have all had our dream of some other land, some other world, some other way of gaining the prizes which would bring us in as conquerors; leave the smooth, rounded limbs, and the little pink and white faces, and the hair like burnished gold, far behind; their day ended, and ours come.”
― C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

“Child, to say what you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that is the whole art and joy of words.”
― C.S Lewis