Quotes from The Four Loves — C. S. Lewis
1898–1963 Ireland
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All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
The Four Loves (1960)
We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, intellectually; we need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves.
The Four Loves (1960)
To love at all is to be vulnerable.
The Four Loves (1960)
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
The Four Loves (1960)
Friendship, I have said, is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself..."
The Four Loves (1960)
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
The Four Loves (1960)
Friendship arises out of mere companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or even taste which the others do not share and which, till that moment, each believed to be his own unique treasure (or burden). The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, "What? You too? I thought I was the only one."
The Four Loves (1960)