"There are no ordinary people. You have..." - Quote by C S Lewis
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption.
More by C S Lewis
“No time for better words, no time to unsay anything. -Til We Have Faces”
“Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did.”
“Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible.”
More on Humanity
“There is much in nature against us. But we forget:Take nature altogether since time began,Including human nature, in peace and war,And it must be a little more in favor of man.”
“Man must go back to nature for information.”
“There's a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You'll be a long time finding it, sometimes.”
More on Immortality
“I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family. I'll be around a long time. A thousand years from now, a whole township of my offspring will be biting sour apples in the gumwood shade.”
“The only thing that can kill me is death, that's the only thing that can ever stop me, is death, and even then my music will live forever.”
“Jewel-Like the immortaldoes not boast of its length of yearsbut of the scintillating point of the moment.”