The Dark Tower Quotes

“The most important events in every age never reach the history books.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Dark Tower and Other Stories

“No man would find an abiding strangeness on the moon unless he were the sort of man who could find it in his own back garden.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Dark Tower: And Other Stories

“Excuse me,’ said Ransom. ‘But it is funny, you know. The idea of a man thinking he could become a saint as a minor detail in his scientific training. You might as well imagine you could use the stairs of heaven as a short cut to the nearest tobacconist’s. Don’t you see that long before you had reached the level of timeless experience you would have had to become so interested in something else—or, frankly, Someone Else—that you wouldn’t be bothering about time-travel?”
― C.S. Lewis, The Dark Tower: and Other Stories

“No man would find an abiding strangeness on the Moon unless he were the sort of man who could find it in his own back garden”
― C.S. Lewis, The Dark Tower: And Other Stories

“The desire to give is blessed. But you can’t turn bad bank-notes into good ones just by giving them away.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Dark Tower: And Other Stories

“… how thin is the crust that protects ‘real life’ from the fantastic.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Dark Tower: And Other Stories

“Much more work of this kind goes on than is commonly supposed, and the most important events in every age never reach the history books.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Dark Tower: And Other Stories