Top 99 Quotes From "The Great Divorce"

Top 99 Quotes From "The Great Divorce"

Are you a fan of C.S. Lewis’ “The Great Divorce”? Check out these top 99 quotes from the book!

1. “There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done.'”
2. “There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, ‘All right, then, have it your way.’
3. “What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.”
4. “The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the words ‘Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.'”
5. “Hell is a state of mind – ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of the creature within the dungeon of its own mind – is, in the end, Hell.”
6. “There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done.'”
7. “There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done.’ All that are in Hell, choose it.”
8. “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
9. “There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done.'”
10. “There is no other day. All days are present now.”
11. “The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the words ‘Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.'”
12. “Better to be damned than to live on the same planet with you!”
13. “The damned are in one sense successful, rebels to the end; the doors of hell are locked on the inside.”
14. “You cannot take all luggage with you on all journeys.”
15. “There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done.'”
16. “It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship.”
17. “There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, ‘All right, then, have it your way.’
18. “You have gone far wrong. Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth.”
19. “There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done.'”
20. “There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, ‘All right, then, have it your way.’
21. “If we insist on keeping Hell (or even earth) we shall not see Heaven: if we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.”
22. “I desire a thing which is impossible.”
23. “There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done.'”
24. “I believe, to be sure, that anyone who reaches Heaven will find that what he abandoned (even in plucking out his right eye) has not been lost: that the kernel of what he was really seeking even in his most depraved wishes will be there, beyond expectation, waiting for him in ‘the High Countries.’
25. “There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done.'”
26. “We are in fact very like him.”
27. “Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory.”
28. “There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done.’ All that are in Hell, choose it.”
29. “The doors of Hell are locked on the inside.”
30. “All that are in Hell, choose it.”
31. “Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace, is drawn away from love of the thing he tells, to love of the telling till, down in Deep Hell, they cannot be interested in God at all but only in what they say about Him.”
32. “It is only when they leave this world that they see the real value of their pains.”
33. “There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, ‘All right, then, have it your way.’
34. “I see… I see… I see rivers of darkness… I see people coming up out of them… They’re coming to a great wall… They’re bringing coffins… There are ghosts in the coffins… They’re coming to the wall and handing them up over it… There are wicked angels up there, and as each ghost comes up it is seized by them and flung into –”
35. “There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done.'”
36. “I am in Love, and out of it I will not go.”
37. “What I mean by Charity is Love in the Christian sense.”
38. “The greatest sinners are those who think they are not sinners.”
39. “You cannot take all luggage with you on all journeys.”
40. “I never knew… It was all a mirage. He never loved me.”
41. “There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done.’ All that are in Hell, choose it.”
42. “The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the words ‘Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.'”
43. “All that are in Hell, choose it.”
44. “I’m on the wrong side… I’ve been choosing my own way, not Yours.”
45. “There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, ‘All right, then, have it your way.’
46. “I believe… that the most horrible thing in the world is to have something to say and not be able to say it.”
47. “There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, ‘All right, then, have it your way.’
48. “The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the words ‘Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.'”
49. “The Great Divorce is not a dream. It is a picture of the actual reality.”
50. “There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done.'”
51. “I choose joy.”
52. “I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now… Come further up, come further in!”
53. “I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now… Come further up, come further in!”
54. “There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be