"The Four Loves" Quotes
C.S. Lewis explores the nature of love in its four distinct forms: affection, friendship, romantic love, and unconditional love.
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Quotes
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one’s ‘own,’ or ‘real’ life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one’s real life—the life God is sending one day by day.
Lovers are normally face to face, absorbed in each other; Friends, side by side, absorbed in some common interest.
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.
To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves; the crown of life and the school of virtue.
Lovers are always talking to one another about their love; Friends hardly ever about their Friendship.
We picture lovers face to face but Friends side by side; their eyes look ahead.
The very condition of having Friends is that we should want something else besides Friends.
In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all his facets.
