C. S. Lewis Desire Quotations

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

Beloved," said the Glorious One, "unless thy desire had been for me thou wouldst not have sought so long and so truly. For all find what they truly seek.

A thing may be morally neutral and yet the desire for that thing may be dangerous.

Those who tread 'adult' as a term of approval cannot hope to be considered adult themselves. When I became a man I put away childish things, along with the desire to be very grown up.

Alas," said Aslan, shaking his head. "It will. Things always work according to their nature. She has won her heart's desire; she has unwearying strength and endless days like a goddess. But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it.

I desired dragons with a profound desire.

Our desire is not only to SEE glory, but to participate in the glory we see.

Our problem with desire is that we want too little.

If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.

It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.

Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.

In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.

When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.

It is a happy moment when our desire crosses with the will of Heavenly Father.

If our deepest desires cannot be satisfied in this world, then we must have been made for another world.

I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death.

A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can will solve most of the problems.

Our problem is not that we desire too much but too little.

The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme malaise of denial than by any very strong delight in fruition.

Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species.

Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire.

Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them.

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.