Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.C.S. Lewis
The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one.'C.S. Lewis
Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.C.S. Lewis
Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help?C.S. Lewis
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.C.S. Lewis
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.C.S. Lewis
When the two people who thus discover that they are on the same secret road are of different sexes, the friendship which arises between them will very easily pass – may pass in the first half-hour – into erotic love.C.S. Lewis
The event of falling in love is of such a nature that we are right to reject as intolerable the idea that it should be transitory.C.S. Lewis
We picture lovers face to face but Friends side by side; their eyes look ahead.C.S. Lewis
It would be absurd to say that the Friendship is based on common interests. The common interest is Friendship.C.S. Lewis
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.C.S. Lewis
Charity stepping in to do the work of friendship encourages a state of mind which, if the disease became common, would make human society impossible.C.S. Lewis