C. S. Lewis Quotes

Emotions should be real; one shouldn't come across as acting.

Instead of trying to manufacture feelings, use the way you already feel. Or at least add that in.

Other people's devotions embarrassed me, perhaps because, like other people's kisses, they rarely looked genuine when viewed too closely.

Love, in distinction from friendship, is killed, or rather extinguished, the moment it is displayed in public.

If I'm happy, I look happy; if I'm angry, I show it. Without worrying about how others may react.

I love you," she said, and I knew she meant it because she spoke the words from the heart at the center of her chest. This, at least, had not been left behind at the hospital.

There is a difference, of course, between real sentiment and the trash of shared experience.

I can't cry on demand. I need to feel what I'm feeling. I can't just say, 'Give me a moment' and then cry.

Words are easy to say, but emotions betray the best intentions.

A man may talk inspiringly to a woman about love in the abstract--but the look in his eyes is always perfectly concrete.

I grabbed her, right there outside the lunch room in the swarming mob. I didn't care if others were watching. In fact, i hoped they were. I grabbed her and squeezed her. I had never been so happy and so proud in my life.

I never paid you a compliment, Rachel, in my life. Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But hopeless love, dearest, always speaks the truth.

It is now only in letters I write what I feel: not in literature any more, and I seldom say it, because I keep trying to be amusing.

Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.

With a lot of what we take to be true feelings, especially on pop records, we feel them because they're cleverly crafted. And because the words are written by somebody who knows how to craft words and draw on those things and convey those feelings. That doesn't mean they're dishonest. But it also doesn't mean that it's all just pure primitive emotion spilling out.

These days, people spent too much time striving to understand their feelings - and then ended up with none that were genuine.

I want to express my feelings, not illustrate them.

You were always uncomfortable with the rhetoric of emotion, which is quite a different matter from discomfort with emotion itself.

I'd want the human voice expressing grievances, or delight, or whatever it might be. But something real

Peter was, simply, what a person would look like if you boiled down the most raw emotions and filtered them of any social contract. If you hurt, cry. If you rage, strike out. If you hope, get ready for a disappointment.

Now smile a real smile for me so I know you're not suffering inside.

emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. this is why all the world is a stage.

In a letter (no matter how quickly it is written or honestly or freely or lovingly) it is more possible to be loving and lovable, more possible to reach out and to take in ... I feel I have somehow deceived you into thinking this is really a human relationship. It is a letter relationship between humans.

Maybe now if you're not an exhibitionist you're private. Or maybe it's just that for a lot of people - sometimes in interesting ways, sometimes in stupid ways - there's no division between the art object and what surrounds it.

Having an authentic emotional response is always a positive thing.