C. S. Lewis Quotes about Age

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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

C. S. Lewis

Birthday, Talking, Age

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

C. S. Lewis

Age, Aging, Incessant

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

C. S. Lewis

Book, Reading, Age

A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age.

C. S. Lewis

Men, Errors, Age

But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves.

C. S. Lewis

Age, Limits, Certain

Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives.

C. S. Lewis

Age, Youth, Surface

C.S. Lewis (1996). “That Hideous Strength”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

As for wrinkles--Pshaw! Why shouldn't we have wrinkles? Honorable insignia of long service in this warfare.

C. S. Lewis

Wrinkles, Long, Age

C. S. Lewis (2014). “Letters to an American Lady”, p.79, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

When you invite a middle-aged moralist to address you, I suppose I must conclude that you have a taste for middle-aged moralizing.

C. S. Lewis

Age, Addresses, Taste

Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life.

C. S. Lewis

Autumn, Age, Aging

At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same power: to generalize while remaining concrete, to present in palpable form not concepts or even experiences but whole classes of experience, and to throw off irrelevancies. Bat at its best it can do more; it can give us experiences we have never had and thus, instead of 'commenting on life,' can add to it.

C. S. Lewis

Class, Giving, Age

If one has to choose between reading the new books and reading the old, one must choose the old: not because they are necessarily better but because they contain precisely those truths of which our own age is neglectful.

C. S. Lewis

Book, Reading, Age

C. S. Lewis Quotes about Age

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