"At home, besides being Peter or Jane,..." - Quote by C S Lewis
At home, besides being Peter or Jane, we also bear a general character; husband or wife, brother or sister, chief, colleague or subordinate. Not among Friends. It is an affair of disentangled, or stripped, minds. Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
More by C S Lewis
“The harder you tried not to think, the more you thought.”
“A world of automata – of creatures that worked like machines – would hardly be worth creating.”
“I think I am beginning to understand why grief feels like suspense. It comes from the frustration of so many impulses that had become habitual. Thought after thought feeling after feeling action after action had H. for their object. Now their target is gone. I keep on through habit fitting an harrow to the string then I remember and have to lay the bow down. So many roads lead through to H. I set out on one of them. But now there's an impassable frontier-post across it. So many roads once now so many culs de sac.”
More on Friendship
“A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.”
“It is your friends who make your world.”
“Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.”
More on Relationships
“Love brings to light the lofty and hidden characteristics of the lover--what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it caneasily be deceptive with respect to what is normal in him.”
“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”
“Remember, a good marriage is like a campfire. Both grow cold if left unattended.”