Quotes from C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.

I wish I had never been born, " she said. "What are we born for?" "For infinite happiness, " said the Spirit. "You can step out into it at any moment...

I do not look at myself. I have given up myself. I had to, you know, after the murder. That was what it did for me. And that was how everything began

Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.

The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion.

No people find each other more absurd than lovers

Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition.