Notes/Quotes From C.S Lewis: A Grief Observed

Fate delights to produce a great capacity and then frustrate it. Beethoven went deaf. By our standards a mean joke.
-CSL

You tell me, 'she goes on.' But my heart and body are crying out, come back, come back. Be a circle, touching my circle, touching my circle on the plain of nature.
-CSL

Does grief finally subside into boredom tinged by faint nausea?
-CSL

It this last note a sign that I'm incurable, that when reality smashes my dream to bits, I mope and snarl while the first shock lasts, and then patiently, idiotically, start putting it together again? And so always? However often the house of cards falls, shall I set about rebuilding it? Is that what I'm doing now?
-CSL

What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?
-CSL

Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumption so numerous that I can never examine more than a minority of them-- never become even conscious of them all. How much of total reality can such an apparatus let through?
-CSL

For this is one of the miracles of love; it gives... a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
-CSL