On grief

"Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable."
- C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality."
- C.S. Lewis

"It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter."
- C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."- C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

"Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief."
- C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

"There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them."
- C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed