All My Road Before Me Quotes

“This morning the fates tried to infuriate me but carried it too far, so that it became merely funny.”
― C.S. Lewis, All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C. S. Lewis, 1922-1927

“This morning the fates tried to infuriate me but carried it too far, so that I became merely funny.”
― C.S. Lewis, All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C. S. Lewis, 1922-1927

“Only Maureen, thro’ stupidity or heroism, remains in excellent spirits.”
― C.S. Lewis, All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C. S. Lewis, 1922-1927

“Left the poem at the typists and sent off the two others: looking in a copy of the English Review for its address, I was disgusted by the poetry in it—all in the worst modern tradition—and half thought of not sending mine. But I decided I need not be nice, as I shall almost certainly be rejected anyway.”
― C.S. Lewis, All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C. S. Lewis, 1922-1927

“Friday 14 April: Last night I had a ridiculous dream of Squire’s sending back my poem and saying he could not accept it because I spelt the word ‘receive’ wrongly: and sure enough, the first post brought the poem back! I intend to hammer away for a bit at him yet.”
― C.S. Lewis, All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C. S. Lewis, 1922-1927

“I tried very hard to write something today, but it was like drawing blood from a stone. In spite of promising myself not to be influenced by the decision of the Mercury--and I know from what they publish that their canon is wrong--the rejection of my things has made me rather despond...”
― C.S. Lewis, All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C. S. Lewis, 1922-1927

“I argued that immortality—which he believes in—was not likely to fall to the lot of everyone, since ‘gift is contrary to the nature of the universe’. He on the other hand is confident that we should all be immortal anyway: he gave me the impression of believing in Heaven but not in Hell, nor in any conditions attaching to Heaven.”
― C.S. Lewis, All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C. S. Lewis, 1922-1927

“We discussed The Turn of the Screw: he agrees with me that the boy is ‘saved’ in the last scene. We talked of Emma: he liked it, but parts of it made him ‘writhe’.”
― C.S. Lewis, All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C. S. Lewis, 1922-1927

“We then drifted into a long talk about ultimates. Like me, he has no belief in immortality etc., and always feels the materialistic pessimism at his elbow.”
― C.S. Lewis, All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C. S. Lewis, 1922-1927

“After this I read Macdonald’s Phantastes over my tea, which I have read many times and which I really believe fills for me the place of a devotional book. It tuned me up to a higher pitch and delighted me.”
― C.S. Lewis, All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C. S. Lewis, 1922-1927